Boat Owner's Occupation?

[mako1]

Just curious, what do most of the boat owners do for a living to be able to own and operate these battle wagons? I assume they are business owners - construction, etc?

[Capt-D]

The guy I work part time for could tell me, but than he would have to kill me!

-D

[34SILVERTON]

Just curious, what do most of the boat owners do for a living to be able to own and operate these battle wagons? I assume they are business owners - construction, etc?

i'm just a lowly mechanic

[frankypettolina]

Boats I have workd on-

65 Viking- retired from AOL/Time Warner

61 Sportsman- custom builder

60 Blackwell- some kind of computer system network guy

57 and 70 Ricky Scarborough- Beer Distributer

52 Scarborough and 54 Monterey- Printing company

46 post- Carpet hauling

48 Ocean- Some sort of freight hauling

46 ocean- dry cleaning stores

42 Ocean- grocery store

38 bertram- Truckstop/home heating oil business.

[Hroonk]

Damn, by Franky's report it seems that the only trend is to own your own buisness and work hard.........why am I working for the govt, again?

[El Capo]

Metal fabrication for industrial applications.

[algdog]

the question you should be asking,
how can you go to any inlet, port in the USA, and at every marina mostly there is an array of multi million dollar sportfish
boats. if you go to say cape may, the amount of big sportfish boats is mind boggling then to hatteras, atlantic city, shark river
sea isle, boston lauterdale ect ect.ect

I can see one guy, very successfull in say construction. maybe another guy made it big on wall street. but what do the other 1000's of people do to make that kind of scratch. I'm not talking a 30-40 ft boat, but the custom 60ft + rigs that are every where and take $100,000 a year just to run and maintain.
If one or two guys could do it, I'd say god bless them.
Where does the rest come from?

[Innovator]

45' Rybovitch- Construction

61' Viking- Dyalisis Centers

52' Viking- Car Dealer

56' Viking- Forclosure/Title Lawyer

50' Hatt- Refurbished Computers

1985 23' Seacraft- Tackle Manufacture (getting there!!!)

[mako1]

the question you should be asking,
how can you go to any inlet, port in the USA, and at every marina mostly there is an array of multi million dollar sportfish
boats. if you go to say cape may, the amount of big sportfish boats is mind boggling then to hatteras, atlantic city, shark river
sea isle, boston lauterdale ect ect.ect I can see one guy, very successfull in say construction. maybe another guy made it big on wall street. but what do the other 1000's of people do to make that kind of scratch. I'm not talking a 30-40 ft boat, but the custom 60ft + rigs that are every where and take $100,000 a year just to run and maintain.
If one or two guys could do it, I'd say god bless them.
Where does the rest come from?

That was my thinking also. It is kinda neat to learn where all of this wealth is made and spent. Just look in any Marlin Magazine in the back in the boat brokerage section - someone is buying and selling these $smillion rigs that cost sometimes $250k a year to maintain.

My guess is a lot of these owners are in the construction business of some sort.

[iguana1]

What is really amazing is how many of these rigs are financed! Tons of bank short sales going on right now - check out yachtauctions.com - there are some serious rigs showing up now in addition to the sea rays and carvers. Shows that a lot of these people have a lot more confidence than ability.

In general, most of the high-end boats do belong to business owners. There are very few salary/bonus gigs that can support this kind of habit in terms of capital on ongogin expense. Very, very few now that financial services hit the skids. I am sure it varies from region to region, but in the few offshore tournies I have fished it is almost all local businesses (gas stations, car dealers, construction). However, it always seems like the guys in the 20 year old, 16 knots beaters outfish most of them