It started off innocently enough with the idea to utilize my many years of research and study of boats to open my own Yacht and Boat Brokerage business. I figured this new endeavour after a successful 20+ years in the automotive business would get me more involved in boating and be something I could continue to do in a couple more years once we moved from this life into the cruising life.
Buying and selling only a few boats at at a time quickly became an obsession to seek out a deal, get the best reconditioning done quickly and re market the boat while the market was hot. This was very time consuming but alot of fun. Months went bye and although boat selling was going well I never really had the time to get the yacht brokerage part off the ground. I'm sure that being landlocked in Arizona to most would seem an odd place to be a yacht broker until you realize that per capita Arizona has the most boat ownership of any U.S. state and without all the regulation involved in Florida and California.
The business did develop into a success for me. I partnered with a dealer in Arizona's water mecca of Lake Havasu City who took my inventory on consignment to sell so I could focus on acquiring inventory which I thought would give me more time... It Didn't. All of a sudden Summer had passed and other then one weekend of sailing in San Diego it seems that I had lost my focus and strayed from my goal, or had I?
It is still a long way off to 2016 and our planned departure. I did realize that although I felt sidetracked there will be alot of time yet for getting to the goal. But meanwhile work away I must at something , so it may as well be something I enjoy. My apologies to the blogs readers who had wondered why my usual daily postings went away for so long. I look forward to finding a balanced time in the near future to resume and look forward to the mutual trade of information garnered from feedback from my readers. I just thought an explanation was in order.
Chris
Broker
Arizona Yacht Brokers
