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Your boat is a precious item to you and so it is very important to make sure it is adequately protected with the right marine insurance for your boat!

A unique partnership between the Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR) and Smartboat has been agreed at the Salon Nautique de Paris. Smartboat will be providing a customised 23 foot craft for use as the GOR Race Organisation’s official motorboat and s...

Belgian sailor Michel Kleinjans today confirmed that he has ordered a Kiwi40FC with BTBoats in New Zealand. Kleinjans has secured the second Farr designed Class40 production boat to be built at Cookson Boats, Auckland, ensuring that he has a highl...

Despite the gloomy economic climate and icy temperatures, Boatshed Sussex continues to sell boats so we are keen to replenish our stock of used boats as soon as possible.

When from outside our office there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my desk to see what was the matter.
Away to the entry I flew like a flash,
Tore open the door – t’was well worth the dash.

Ralph Kitts one of RCR's southern engineers was patrolling his local area in Watford and decided to pop down the towpath to check on a few of the local boaters and see how things were going. On arrival at the moorings at Coxley Common Moor on the ...

With warnings of dropping water levels on lakes reservoirs and canals, (intended or otherwise) Navigators & General is urging caution on the part of with the increased risk of groundings.

A 57ft narrow boat and its crew left Torksey lock to travel to Newark, however shortly after leaving Torksey, disaster struck and the crew found the engine lacked power. As a result they were not making headway but luckily a fellow boat managed to...

It’s not often in the balmy south that we have to don gloves, hats, scarves as well scrape ice and snow off the boats. So it was with some surprise that I found myself treading very carefully over the decks of the 50’ Fleur de Lys just recentl...

It’s not often in the balmy south that we have to don gloves, hats, scarves as well scrape ice and snow off the boats. So it was with some surprise that I found myself treading very carefully over the decks of the 50’ Fleur de Lys just recentl...

The Mariner 37 Seville Pilothouse Trawler is fairly new to the US West Coast, but with their number growing they have attracted attention and growing interest. Compare the Mariner 37 with a Nordic Tug 37 or 39, or an American Tug 34, 365 or 395. Y...

Thought you all might like to see our new driver hard at work...It's a dogs life!

Endeavour Quay lifted out the third Survey vessel for refit in as many months. This time it was the Southampton based company EMU Limited’s offshore Research Vessel DISCOVERY

Endeavour Quay was pleased to be able to help Chris Stanmore Major (CSM) in his bid to get to the start line of the 2010-11 Velux 5 Oceans Race.

Endeavour Quay, in Gosport, recently lifted the historic Motor Gun Boat ‘81’. This iconic vessel is the only one of its kind left in the world. Built in 1942 she has been painstakingly restored and is the recent star attraction at this years ...

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De la neige a St Malo? C'est bien rare! Mais, voila, il y en a. Et, si vous traversez la Rance et continuez un peu vers l'ouest tout devient blanc.

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