Steve grew up with the ocean in his back yard in the Bayside summer community near Northport Maine. While attending the University of Maine, Steve played football for four years graduating in 1977. Afterwards, Steve embarked on a career at sea as a merchant marine working on 800' to 900' tankers carrying gasoline and chemicals to Europe and to Russian Black Sea ports. If you are having a hard time imagining tankers this size, just pretend you are standing in front of the John Hancock building in Boston. Now imagine laying that building on it's side in Boston Harbor!
Steve worked at sea two months on and then was ashore for two months. To keep him occupied while on land, Steve started a part time boat sales business. He began by fixing up Boston Whalers and selling them and then moved up to selling bigger power and sail boats. Steve retired from being a merchant seaman in 1988 and has enjoyed the boat business ever since. On his boat lot, Steve has a large barn like structure which he rents out to Mike Casey. Mike has an expertise in repairing both small and large fiberglass boats. Earlier in the winter I dropped into Mike's facility and he was restoring a beautiful French built 35' Jeanneau sailboat. If I had the money, I would have hired Steve as my yacht broker and bought that boat on the spot!
Steve naturally gets alot of summer traffic going by his facility at 369 U.S. Route 1 in Freeport. He finds that boat buyers typically come to his facility well informed about what they want because of the research buyers do on the Internet. The same thing is true for home buyers. Eighty five percent of home buyers start their search on the Internet and I'm sure the same thing holds true for boat buyers. Visit Bayside Boat Sales online at http://www.baysideboatsales.com/ or Call Steve at 207-329-0094
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