Saturday, March 26, 2016
Nice Insurance Review for Hodgens Marine Insurance
Recently the website All Things Boat came out with a review of marine insurance companies:
Boat Insurance Comparison: 2016 review
Bluewater Yacht a Hodgens Marine Insurance web site was featured with a positive review.
Find out more at http://www.allthingsboat.com/compare-boat-insurance/
Thank you.
Friday, March 4, 2016
The Voyage of the MARIA...All True!
Part one: Panama Bound
March 1974
A
Catholic Priest once said that in all the times he visited the dying,
he never one heard anyone say that they regretted not spending more time
at the office!
Maybe
this is why there is something strong and irresistible about boats, the
ocean and cruising. If you get the bug, you have the bug, and you can’t
get rid of the bug, until
you go cruising! How else can you explain why you would resign a high
paying sales career so you could sail a small boat across the ocean, and
be so much happier than before, even if you were broke! At least you
are sailing!
Sent
to Southern California by a major corporation to I had just left such a
career to sell cruising yachts in a yacht brokerage in Newport Beach CA
in 1974, when a client
came by the office to look at a new Mariner Ketch we were selling. In
passing he showed me a small classified ad in the back of Sailing
Magazine.
”For
sale in Panama- By a Canal Pilot, 1956 custom William Garden designed
Ketch …built by Choey Lee…teak hull and decks…ready to cruise …ask 25K”.
WOW! How exotic!
Panama…
Choey Lee….teak hull and decks… the Caribbean! The boat was berthed in a
place in the Canal Zone in the Caribbean called Coco Solo! What an
exotic place that sounded
like….Visions of slow turning ceiling fans and Sidney Greenstreet in a
while suit! I was smitten….I must have looked like Mr. Toad in Wind and
the Willows when he saw an auto go by…..I sent off a letter to the
address in Panama asking for photos and info,
and went home and told Gloria about our new adventure….One thing about
Gloria was that she was always ready for an adventure.
Three
weeks later, Gloria and I and crossed the border near Yuma AZ and
headed south into Mexico….….We learned that VW’s were prevalent in
Mexico and Central America so we
traded our TR3 Sports car for a VW Bus owned by my close friend Bob
Carson and off we went….The VW Bus has as large circle in the front with
the VW symbol inside…Bob had removed the VW and painted Mickey Mouse
with a smile and outstretched arms inside the
circle….It was truly amazing how people old and young reacted when we
drove by in the ensuing months……smiles and waves…an amazing ambassador
is Mickey!
Bill is a yacht insurance broker based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For all your yacht insurance needs please visit WR Hodgens Marine Insurance.
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