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Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andy Schell. Enjoy the show.

Greetings, greetings. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast. I'm your host, Andy Schell, and this is episode number 44, an essay Friday.

Thanks to our returning sponsor, Forbes Horton Yacht Sales.

Like I said before, I've known Forbes for as long as I've been in the sailing industry,

having him in Annapolis.

He's worked with several of my friends on buying and selling their boats,

and I think is doing a lot of really cool stuff with yacht brokerage

that you don't normally see.

And I attribute that to the fact that he's younger and more enthusiastic about the whole process,

just like I tend to think I am within the sailing world.

We're sort of think of each other as the next generation of sailors coming up,

and we're doing our best to make a niche for ourselves in that world.

As yacht brokers based in Annapolis, Maryland, Forbes yachts have had to travel further and more often to find quality

power and blue water sailing yachts for their buyers. Their yacht brokers have traveled to New

England, Florida, and all over the Mid-Atlantic recently in order to find quality listings.

In fact, Forbes and one of his

brokers, Lloyd Cooper, is working with a friend of mine named Kevin, who sailed with me quite a bit

on Sojourner and finding him an old highless, and they've been up and down the East Coast and

all the way down to St. Thomas looking for the perfect boat for him, and I think they're doing

a pretty good job of it.

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