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About Boatshed.com
Husband and wife team Neil and Mandy Chapman started the Boatshed concept in 1999. In 1998 they took a sabbatical from their stressful jobs & went cruising for 10 months , during the trip they were rolled 360 in Storm 10, involved in a lengthy salvage claim and cruised extensively in Portugal , Denmark and Ireland. They returned to their jobs after the sailing trip, Neil involved with running a large family business in Shropshire, UK and Mandy as a Graphic Designer in London. But both were itching to get back to the water. The water bug was strong in these two and despite being unsure of which direction they would take, they left their jobs headed back to the water where soon after Boatshed.com was born.
"Our motive was to develop a business that would enable us to go sailing every day." Neil says.
Boatshed Today
Today Boatshed.com is the largest Yacht Brokerage Company in the world with offices in the UK, Europe and America.
A large proportion of boats are sold world-wide to Europe, Japan, America.
Boatshed.com has been involved in the high profile boat sales with its performance arm which is exclusively for high performance race boats.
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What do our Brokers say?
Roger Bailey - Boatshed USA
“I looked at the Brokerage methods currently in place in the USA and ended up looking to England for a system that could do things better. I found Boatshed and was very impressed!
I have not looked back since”
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Miles Booker, Boatshed Sussex
It was a business that I could build up, I could be self-employed, and it was a challenge.... Talking to the Boatshed business owners, a common thread soon emerged. They did not so much view their business as simply that of salesmen, but as being able to combine a genuine interest in boats with a viable business plan.
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Peter Watt – Boatshed Portsmouth
“I tend to get some grief from friends who are perhaps doing jobs that don't give them the job satisfaction that mine does – I can honestly say that it doesn't feel like going to work for me!”
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