About Me
Mark has been working in Seattle as a yacht broker since 1983. He started with a small sailboat company called Weatherly Yachts. The product line consisted of just the lovely Weatherly 32 designed by Gilmer. Mark only sold one of these small cruisers, but it wound up going to the South Pacific and back. Then on to Passport Yachts, selling the beautiful Passport and Liberty lines of long-range cruising sailboats built in Taiwan. He enjoyed that run through the early and mid-‘80’s, selling the higher quality new and used yachts built overseas, until the heyday of Taiwanese sailboat building started to wane.
Then on to Seacraft Yacht Sales, selling the lovely and well-found offshore cruisers built by Pacific Seacraft in Southern California. Five good years and it was time to move on again, with a three and a half year stint of focused brokerage sales at West Coast Yachts. This venue offered new opportunities to assist clients with purchasing boats from all over the country, so significant travel and long-distance transactions ensued, and Mark’s first opportunity to begin attending the big Annapolis Sailboat Show on a regular basis.
In the late ’90’s, Mark joined Alliance Yacht Sales, selling the capable and beautiful line of pilothouse motor yachts designed by Bill Crealock called Offshore Yachts. Mark’s role was to help develop a sailboat side to the business, which included a successful Tartan Yachts dealership, as well as a dealership with Cabo Rico Yachts. Both product lines attracted a lot of attention at Seattle boat shows, and helped provide Mark with five good years of mixed new and used boat sales, including a number of the substantial Offshore Yachts motor cruisers.
Mark was offered a position in ‘02 with Discovery Yachts, a company founded by one of his former clients, Mike Locatell. Following a very successful dealership for SAGA Yachts, Discovery was just becoming established as a dealer for several of the very high-end cruising sailboat lines from Sweden, and also Valiant Yachts. Discovery Yachts is now the North American importer for Malo Yachts, Regina Pilot House Yachts and Farr Pilot House Yachts of Sweden; and an agent for the Passport Yachts Custom and Vista series.
Mark has enjoyed boating trips on the coast of Washington, in the San Juan Islands, test sails in Long Island, the Chesapeake, South Carolina/Intracoastal, Florida/Keys, Mexico, San Diego, Los Angeles area and San Francisco Bay, and, in the summer of 2008, a two-week offshore sail training experience aboard the Hallberg-Rassy 46 “Mahina Tiare” from Scotland to Sweden. His career has always been focused on assisting folks with bigger dreams requiring more substantial cruising boats. His association with a variety of very high quality product lines, as well as a broad range of brokerage cruising designs, has made Mark very effective as both a buyer’s broker and as a listing broker.
Professionally, when the nationwide program for Certified Professional Yacht Brokers was established a few years ago as an effort to raise the level of professionalism in the industry, Mark was one of the very first to apply for, test and gain the CPYB designation. Personal and professional integrity, along with a lot of experience helping folks not only to buy and sell boats, but to realize their dreams and aspirations for adventure and recreation, have kept many of Mark’s clients returning as repeat customers, and new customers are always in for a positive and rewarding experience.
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