Port Royal Group Agency Services Gain Notice in the Wall Street Journal

BOUTIQUE AGENCY SERVICE ACTIVELY REVERSES THE COMMON BUYER-BROKER RELATIONSHIP, GAINS NOTICE IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Excerpted, with permission, from and article by Emily Nonko, WSJ

Garry Hubbard didn’t envision a quiet life for himself and his wife, Libby Hubbard, on solid ground. He wanted to retire aboard a yacht.

With the help of Phil Friedman, managing director of the yacht consulting firm Port Royal Group, the Hubbards spent four years and roughly $5 million to design and build a retirement home that would take them from the Texas coast to Florida, and from the Bahamas up the eastern seaboard.

The couple recently wrapped their first full year of cruising on an 80-foot Offshore Pilot House Motor Yacht. This spring, they sold their full-time, 5,200-square-foot, five-bedroom home in Plano, Texas. (The Hubbards would not disclose the sale price, but it is estimated by Parker Wood, president of Dallas-based Josh DeShong Real Estate, to be worth between $600,000 to $1.1 million). They made their 2,000-square-foot yacht, which they named “let it Bee,” their official retirement home …

“A lot of people talk about doing these types of things and never do it,” Mr. Hubbard says. “We’re actually getting it done ...”

Mr. Hubbard, an energy executive who is originally from England, has been an avid boater most of his life, including a stint as a British merchant marine. As he reached retirement, he felt that the advances in marine technology meant that he and Ms. Hubbard could crew the motorized yacht themselves, cruising the east coast and Caribbean for at least nine months out of the year while occasionally returning to their vacation home along Cedar Creek Lake, 80 miles south of Dallas ….

If your a boat buyer, our Buyer's Agency Service can do for you what we did for Garry and Libby Hubbard when we managed the purchase, design, and construction of their semi-custom Offshore 80 motor yacht. Contact us for a free, no obligation exploratory conference.

— Phil Friedman, Port Royal Group