Yesterday I spent the better part of the morning with new customers, Pat and Monica.
They bought a nice 36' Sabreline trawler from Paradise Yachts some time back. And as always, I offered to assist them in learning their new boat as part of the transaction.
If you have worked with other Brokers, you probably know by now that most of them sell you a boat, toss you the keys and are gone. But we do it differently here at Paradise; as we say in our Boat Buyers Guide, we offer to help you choose the best boat, get her at the best price and learn all about her once you have her.
Now Pat and Monica are not rookies within the boating community, they are seasoned sailors. But Pat wanted some hands-on training on handling a twin-screw boat as all he had operated previously were single-screw sailboats. And yes, they do handle differently.
So I got her out of her slip and made a few demonstration maneuvers and handed her over to Pat. For next 4 hours we practiced docking in open slips. Pat got the technique down pretty quickly too. And when we took her back to her "home" slip, Pat laid her in there as good as I would have; well done Pat.
On our next session in a few weeks, we'll begin her trip north to New England for the summer. I'm going to accompany them part of the way simply giving Pat and Monica some encouragement in operating their new boat.
Mike
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