Forbes Horton // Yacht Broker
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
#95. Despite the intro, this is not the first Thursday episode…but it is another business-oriented episode, kind of a hybrid actually. Andy sat down with Forbes Horton of his namesake Yacht Sales brokerage in his office in Annapolis. Forbes' firm, thanks to Lloyd Cooper, put together the deal to buy Isbjorn, the Swan 48 we talked about previously. Andy has known Forbes for a while - they talk about how they met, how he got into sailing and his own adventures in a Tartan 34c, the brokerage business in general, and how the deal came together with Isbjorn!
Need a good bluewater sailboat? Go to forbesyachts.com and get in touch with Forbes and Lloyd. They're the best in the business.
Want to go on an ocean sailing expedition? Head on over to 59-north.com/sailingpassages to book a berth on the Swan 48 'Isbjorn.' We're heading to the Caribbean for 2016, Europe in the spring!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Viner's live from Sweden. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing Podcast with your host, Andy Shell. |
| 0:07.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:08.0 | All right, so welcome back to the 59 degrees North, a podcast about sailing. |
| 0:14.0 | This is the first Thursday episode. |
| 0:17.0 | Again, I've lost count overall. I think we're up at like 95 or something like that. Honing in on the 100th episode, which is going to be an exciting moment. This episode is, first of all, I'm sitting here with Paul Exner again. Paul, hi. Hello, Andy. So I wanted to tell you about this, and I figured, well, I might as well just tell you about it on the podcast because that'll use the intro for this. |
| 0:38.1 | That sounds great. |
| 0:39.1 | I like it. |
| 0:40.1 | So two weeks ago, I did an essay podcast talking about buying the boat and I was very |
| 0:46.5 | upfront and honest about the financial side of it and the anxiety that I was going through |
| 0:51.4 | and just this whole thing of buying this Swan 48 and setting up |
| 0:54.7 | this business plan. Well, we announced on Tuesday, if you haven't heard it yet, that you and I are |
| 0:58.7 | sort of teaming up on the new boat and going to offer these expeditions on the Swan as well as |
| 1:04.1 | your boat, Solstice. |
| 1:05.5 | The best expeditions out there. |
| 1:06.9 | And I wanted to spin off a sort of a second not a second podcast but more |
| 1:14.6 | episodes to talk specifically about the business side of things and how that's |
| 1:18.6 | worked because it's new to me you've started several businesses but it's just |
| 1:24.7 | it's interesting it's a way for me almost psychologically to get some of these stresses out in the world, but also for some people to follow along and see the behind the scenes sort of stuff. |
| 1:34.1 | So anyway, that said, this episode is, I promised you guys in the last one that I'd have the broker on who brokered the deal. |
| 1:40.9 | So this episode is with Forbes Horton of Forbes Horton yacht sales. |
| 1:45.0 | I met in his office in Annapolis last week and I wanted to have Lloyd on as well. |
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