Neil Chapman

Boatshed is one of the largest, most successful international yacht brokerages in the world, specialising in the sale and purchase of second-hand sail and motor boats. The business has grown into a major international business and a well-known cornerstone of the yacht brokerage industry in the UK and overseas. The business has experienced impressive growth since 1999. Today we have a team of about 120 specialist Brokers, Agents and Representatives, operating from over 70 locations in 18 countries, supported by a central HQ team of 10 professionals. Boatshed’s online sales platform is widely acknowledged as the very best in the industry. We have pioneered the clear and transparent marketing and sale of used boats online. Our IT systems are constantly being developed and improved by our team of dedicated designers to make it easier, quicker and more cost effective for our owners to list and sell boats, and for our customers to find the right boat at the right price as quickly as possible. We have dealt with over 20,000 boats for sale so far using our cutting edge systems. Today we have over 1 Million registered customers looking for boats to buy. Our website attracts over 280,000 unique visitors each month. We sell more than 1,000 boats each year. We sell boats twice a quickly as other brokers.