For buyers, sellers, and the international clients who close from another continent — the actual sequence, not the marketing version.
Where we earn our long-term reputation. Market scan, off-market intel, shortlist, walkthroughs, sea trial, independent survey, escrow, closing. We'll tell you when the boat you love is the wrong boat — twice, if you don't hear us the first time.
Contract to global market in seven days. Professional photography and walkthrough video, multi-channel listing, and direct, named outreach to qualified buyers — not autoresponder e-mail blasts.
US, EU, Caribbean & Middle Eastern clients. Flag-state filings, multi-jurisdiction escrow, secure international wires. Ryan covers the European time zone before sunrise in Florida.
A long-standing Southport relationship — slot allocation, options spec, survey-on-delivery — plus Hatteras and Sea Ray knowledge from the MarineMax years. And in-house marine insurance through Matt.
75' Hatteras · hauled & surveyed under Woods & AssociatesWe retain only independent, credentialed surveyors. The boat comes out of the water, the bottom and running gear get inspected, the sea trial runs against a written checklist tied to your use case — and the survey results often become the basis for a second negotiation. That's where the deal is really made.
Use case, geography, budget, hidden constraints. What you want versus what you actually need — we're honest when those aren't the same boat.
5–10 vessels, listed and off-market, each with a written assessment, the number we believe it should close at, and the questions we'd ask the listing broker.
We meet you on the dock; for international buyers we run live walkthrough video. Sea trials are coordinated, documented, and assessed against your use case.
Written offer with contingencies, independent survey and haul-out, then the second negotiation the survey makes possible.
Escrow, USCG documentation or state titling, Florida tax handling, flag-state coordination, and marine insurance bound in-house through Matt.
Captain and yard introductions, the punch list, the maintenance schedule, the next slip. The relationship doesn't end at the closing table.