National Boat Share Show has new venue and date

This year's National Boat Share Show will have a new location and a new date.

The Show will take place at Dunchurch Pools Marina on Saturday and Sunday 4th & 5th May.  The Marina is on the North Oxford Canal, not far from Braunston Junction.  The full address is Dunchurch Pools Marina, Onley, Rugby CV23 8AN.

This year's event is being organised by the four shared ownership management companies - BCBM, Carefree Cruising, J D Boat Services and Ownashare.  

Although I'm no longer involved in the organisation of the Show, I have agreed to be the contact point for general information about the Show and Show details will appear on this site - so my details and this site will appear on advertisements for the Show. We have started a list of boats that will be on view and will add further ones when we  hear about them.

 

Pippa and I will also be manning the Welcome Desk at the Show as in previous years.

Thanks to everyone who supported the Boat Share Shows

Despite the rain on the Saturday, the Autumn Boat Share Show at Overwater last weekend proved successful.  As always, it attracted a good number of people with a serious interest in boatshare.

The RNLI Festival, running from Saturday evening amd through the Sunday, was also another great success.  The raft race around the marina was very popular with visitors.

The shared ownership boats provided a grandstand view
for the start and finish of the raft race at Overwater

This was the last Boat Share Show for which I will be directly involved in the organisation - I've handed that role over to the boat management companies.  Hopefully we will know soon about the dates and arrangements for next year's shows.

Management company
stands at Overwater

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped to make the Shows in which I've been involved successful - particularly the management companies, our hosts at Braunston and Overwater and, of course, the many visitors who have come to the Shows to find out about the benefits of boatshare and have gone away as owners.

This website will continue - and I have offered the management companies any support I can give in publicising the Shows here.  We will continue to maintain our comprehensive list of narrowboat shares on offer by monitoring the BCBM, boatshare.co.uk, Carefree Cruising, J D Boat Services and Ownashare websites.  Many of our Show visitors have commented on how useful they've found this site, and I'm delighted that so many are now enjoying their boating as share owners.