Carlton Goldthwaite // Broadreach Adventure Travel
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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#222. Carlton Goldthwaite is the visionary founder & owner of Broadreach, a North-Carolina based company that offers adventure travel and cultural immersion programs for students worldwide, a company very close to my heart - my first official captain's job was in 2008, as a Broadreach skipper based out of French St Martin and co-leading three-week sailing & diving trips around the Leeward Islands. Carlton & I spoke in-person at the Broadreach HQ in Raleigh about his seaside childhood on the coast of New Jersey, his vagabonding experiences as a young adult, his stint on Wall Street as a junk bond trader, and the origins and evolution of Broadreach itself.
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| 0:00.0 | And at the time in, let's say, 1994, 95, you know, people were going to Yellowstone and summer |
| 0:07.1 | camps and U.S.-based stuff. |
| 0:09.1 | And I was like, no, we're going to do programs in Honduras, Ecuador, Egypt. |
| 0:14.2 | And my boss, Eddie Rapa, said to me, there is no way some mom is going to let their 15-year-old |
| 0:20.5 | daughter go with you to Honduras |
| 0:22.7 | or Egypt, which I don't even think he knew where they were on the map. |
| 0:27.6 | And I said, you know, I think there are enough parents out there that recognize that it's |
| 0:33.4 | important for their kids to be stretched. It's important for their kids to see the world that |
| 0:39.1 | they're going to inherit. On the Wind is presented by Forbes Horton Yachts, long-time |
| 0:45.3 | supporter of both 59 North in general and the podcast specifically. I've known Forbes for many |
| 0:51.5 | years now, and he indeed helped us buy East Bjorn back in 2015. |
| 0:56.2 | Friend of the podcast and host of sailing stories, Lee Cumberland, spoke to Forbes about the |
| 1:01.5 | boat buying process and how he can help you find the right one to suit your needs. |
| 1:07.4 | So say I want to buy a boat, when is the right time to contact a broker? Should I know the |
| 1:12.9 | exact boat I want or have a loan or cash in hand? Well, that's a great question. And some |
| 1:19.4 | brokers will say, after you've got the money in your pocket, I've found it's a process for |
| 1:26.0 | most of my customers. They'll call me on a listing and it couldn't be further from the boat that they end up buying in the end. |
| 1:33.3 | And I think that has to do with condition of the boats that are out there, the budget. |
| 1:39.3 | If you have a very, very specific idea of what you want, you're probably going to end up more |
| 1:45.5 | in the new boat category than you are in the brokerage category because condition can vary |
| 1:50.9 | so wildly and at the end of the day, finding that cream puff is really what you're after. |
| 1:56.9 | By the way, Forbes can use his experience to help you buy or sell any boat and help you navigate |
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