By Gav Howard.
Since the age of 12 I have been fascinated by boats, mainly sail boats. I was lucky enough to be offered a small P class yacht to use at the local sailing club on Saturdays. From then on in I was hooked.
Unfortunately when i left school i was more fascinated by machinery and didn’t get a chance to get back to boating until 7 years ago when i bought a 25ft keeler that was in very sad condition.
Since then i have been doing my sailing on a very limited budget and trying to source things i needed from anywhere i could get them.
Not so long a friend asked me to find some parts for him, and i mistakenly thought "ha, that shouldn’t be too had"
Well, the last laugh was on me, Three weeks later I found what I was looking for in another country thousands of miles away. The bottom line was i couldn’t find a one stop web site that i could go to and find what i wanted no matter what country it is in
So that started the brain working, what if someone put an auction web site together where people from all around the world could go to and find what it is they need, or alternately where they could list things they have.
That’s why now i am setting up the auction site. After 9 months of research and planning its finally happened this week. www.worldboatauctions.com is now a reality. Admittedly i still have a lot of work to do to get things running super smoothly but we are open for business now and accepting auctions for boats, boat parts and related products and services, as well as travel and accommodation.
I would be happy for anyone to take a tour of our web site and email us with feedback or suggestions how we might be able to do things better. All comments would be gratefully accepted and there is also a news page for updates so please drop in and check us out,,