Atlantic Harbor Marine Group
Cameron Reed
Boating and marine specialist
Brevard County, Florida
A boat is easy to buy and expensive to own badly. This is the part where somebody who has already made the mistakes keeps you from making them.
He looks at the boat himself. The man who tells you what he thinks of it is the man who climbed into the engine bay, and he says what he saw rather than what would close the sale.
Cameron Reed has worked around Florida boats for twenty-one years, on the water and in the yard. He helps people buy, sell, keep and look after a boat in a state where the salt, the sun and the storms are harder on a hull than anywhere most newcomers have owned one before. He will tell you when a boat is wrong for what you actually plan to do with it, which is the most useful thing anybody says to a first-time buyer.
He will talk you out of a boat. A hull that needs more than the buyer is ready for becomes somebody's regret and somebody's loss, and he would rather lose the sale than arrange that.
Buying, selling, keeping and looking after a boat in Florida.
What we doSix things, each done by the same person
Buying a boat
Working out what the boat is actually for before looking at any, then finding one that fits it rather than one that looks good at the dock.
Selling a boat
Listed, shown and handled, with the paperwork and the title work done properly so the sale does not come back on you.
Service and repair
Engines, systems, steering and electrics, done by people he has used for years rather than whoever answers first.
Storage and dockage
Finding a slip, a lift or a yard that suits the boat and the way you actually use it, including through hurricane season.
Before you buy
A survey and a sea trial arranged and attended, so somebody who knows what to listen for is standing there when the engine runs.
New to Florida boating
Registration, where you can and cannot go, what the water does to a boat here, and what the first year actually costs you in time.
How a boat gets boughtIn this order
1What the boat is for
Fishing, family, the intracoastal, the open water. Everything after this depends on the answer.
2What to look at
Which boats suit that, which do not, and why - told to you before anybody drives anywhere.
3Seeing it
Looked over in person, engine bay opened, hull looked at properly rather than glanced at.
4The survey and the sea trial
Arranged, attended, and explained afterward in words you can use.
5The paperwork
Title, registration and transfer, handled so nothing surfaces months later.
6After you own it
Where it lives, who services it, and what to do with it when a storm is coming.
Who it is for
This suits people buying their first boat in Florida, and people who owned one somewhere colder who are starting again in salt water. It suits sellers who want the listing, the showings and the title work handled properly. It suits anyone who needs a slip, a lift or a yard in an area they do not know yet, anyone who wants somebody at the survey who is on their side, and owners who would rather the same person looked after the boat every year.
Who it is not for
It does not suit somebody who wants a boat found and bought inside a week, anybody looking for commercial or charter vessel work, or a buyer who would rather skip the survey to save a few days.
Talk to somebody before you buy the boat, not after the first weekend with it.
The words you will hearPlain meanings
Atlantic Harbor Marine Group
(321) 555-XXXX
Brevard County, Florida · Marina · Phone · Video
harbor@atlanticharbormarine.example
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