About Rugby Boat Sales

Rugby Boat Sales is committed to providing excellent service and skilful marketing to help private owners find the right buyer for their boat. The long experience of both extensive cruising and living aboard, coupled with honest descriptions, high quality photography and presentation provides a service almost no other broker can match.

The owner, Dominic Miles, has a wide experience of the waterways, cruising virtually the entire system on a 58ft 6in Colecraft for some years in the 1990s and writing as regular contributor to Waterways World about his travels. He also contributed a number of practical articles about life afloat.

He grew up beside the Thames and has been messing about with boats and occasionally falling in since a tender age, acquiring his first boat in the early 1980s – a wooden Broads cruiser which on the technical front sported just one battery, oil lamps and a paraffin cooking stove. Needless to say, it did not have a bowthruster. Later in the 1980s he acquired Gideon, a 43ft x 9ft Dutch skutsje which became one the first boats to navigate the newly restored Kennet & Avon Canal from Reading to Bristol. In 1997 he took Gideon to Ireland where he spent several years exploring the waterways, and wrote a series of articles about his experiences for Canal & Riverboat (now "Canals and Rivers").