His knowledge of the water comes from his experience of working the vast Texas and Louisiana coasts as a charter boat captain and hunting/fishing guide all while in pursuit his college education. Upon graduation he was washing boats for another broker when he met his first client! The client soon found it that the young boat washer with an eye for detail knew more about the yacht than did the broker selling it and opted to purchase the boat. Well from then on his career in the yacht brokerage industry exploded.