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Silhouette owners held our first AGM at the weekend, well first AGM post-Ownerships. Very well attended with 11 of the 12 shares represented, and as a group it looks like we are all set up for carrying on going forward. Many boats have now had their meetings, whether self organised or now under the umbrella [...]

In past years this time of year has been the start of the boat AGM’s for those owners on Ownerships managed boats. With its demise earlier owners will now be facing a new future. After it came to light Allen Matthews had died and taken everyone’s money, the boats went into self-management. For some self-management [...]

The boat management company Ownerships was a large company in the shared boat ownership world, managing over 100 boats. Its collapse earlier this year left it owing £1.8m in debts, including to the 100′s of owners (maybe 1000+ as the majority of boats had 12 shared owners) has led some to believe that “the public [...]

I meant to post this before, but been a but busy and it slipped my mind . The old Ownerships forum was seen as not-fit-for-purpose and in light of the company going under and the website being pulled, some owners decided to set up on another existing forum Boats and Canals as a sub forum [...]

After my last post, it does seem that as there are many people who didn’t attend the meeting (and may well find the Ownerships forum too busy/muddled) and don’t know what happened. Hopefully the links do point out what went on (I could have reiterated it again, but it seemed succinct enough), but essentially Anthony [...]