“Highly Informative”

“Excellent opportunity to share ideas and best practice”

“Some great new ideas for selling boats”

Just some of the comments that came back from a group of Boatshed Yacht Brokers attending the 3rd Annual Boatshed Conference in Portugal this weekend.

19 out of 23 Boatshed offices were represented at this weekends “Boatshed Conference 2006” sponsored by Boatshed Algarve and held in the new luxury resort of Marina Albufeira, Portugal

The delegates enjoyed a number of presentations from Boatshed brokers, PR managers and Marketing specialists, promoting new ideas and best practice in the Yacht Brokerage Industry.

On Friday afternoon delegates took part in an Open Forum that enabled all members of the team to suggest new ways of working, use of improved technology and a whole host of ideas and methods that are proving to sell boats.

Neil Chapman founder of Boatshed comments;
“ It’s simply about using the experience and creative ideas of all the Boatshed team! We have seen a substantial growth of the business during 2005, the exchange of new ideas and best practice by all members will make us even more effective for 2006”

A chartered 60’ catamaran sailing along the Algarve coast formed the Boatshed platform for Saturday’s meetings, sunshine, sailing and talking boats, almost felt like a holiday!