Boston Yacht Sales


Honored to host an interview, and dance, on the bow of a Sabre 45 with Andrew Savage of Boston Yacht Sales at the Newport International Boat Show! B.Y.S. is one of only 40 professional brokerage firms in the country to have earned the distinction as an Endorsed Brokerage Firm by the Yacht Brokers Association of America: YBAA . Watch to see what NEW products 2020 Sabre and Back Cove’s coming to market and why boaters are choosing these classic family style cruising yacht’s.

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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles

I’m Christon and we are at the

2019 Newport International Boat Show and

joining us today is Andrew Savage from Boston Yacht Sales, Welcome

Thank you

What a beautiful and gorgeous day we have here.

This is perfect boat show weather today. We are thrilled, the docks are full.

This gonna be a great great weekend for us.

Tell us a little bit about you, where are you from?

Sure, I’m from Marblehead Massachusetts

I grew up in Maine, near where these beautiful boats were built and

I work with Boston Yacht Sales here out of Weymouth as well as Falmouth and the Marblehead office.

How’d you even get into the industry ?

You know it’s a second life for me. It’s something I’m really passionate about.

I’ve been with them for five years now. It was a funny story actually.

I was looking for my next boat. I knew it was gonna be a Sabre or a Back Cove.

I started working with them and loved the brands, love the people and it’s a family business.

That worked out perfectly, timing was great for me and been with them ever since.

Where do you sell? What’s your basic geographical area?

My geographical area is New England primarily. We work with Sabre in Back Cove in Massachusetts and in Rhode Island.

The boats are built up in Maine, so we have a lot of clients up in that area as well.

What attracted you specifically to Boston Yacht Sale’s?

It’s the people. This industry is a small industry but it’s all about relationships and the people.

We are really fortunate to have people that have been working in this industry for over 50 years and really care about their clients.

So, so far in five years what’s your most sentimental testimonial?

You know it’s really interesting we get so many families on these boats,

they are really couples and multi-generational boats.

That it’s not one particular instance but it’s the time that these boats allow families and

multi generations to have together on the water.

If I’m out off Stellwagen watching the whales and all of a sudden two other boats pull up and

they’re my clients and I see them with their families out there, that’s what

gets me really excited and about what we do.

And whales !

And Whales,

That’s a good secondary plus.

Well , that’s the great thing about these boats, they have lots of range, people can take them up

and down the coast, they can go to Florida on them for the winter

What are some unique things about these particular boats that most people love?

Sure, so Sabre and Back Cove are sister companies. They’re down east traditional

Maine style boats, really set up for comfort and cruising, but also very

functional for day use. We have couples that can live on them for months

at a time and other families that just use them as a day boat .

I have got to see these closets!

We’ve got room for everything! Wardrobe after wardrobe.

They’re classic in style,

Yes, really nice lines, they’re classic, they’re clean.

Classic Maine built boats.

I love this leather interior that you guys have on this one.

I love the trim, the classic cherry interior so it’s a very yacht feeling,

but a very traditional yacht feeling but within a modern propulsion package and modern technologies.

What kind of engines are you guys working with?

The Sabres all come with either Volvo Penta IPS drives or Cummins Zeus drives, which are pod driven boats.

These are twin Diesel’s. The pods allow for joystick functionality.

I love the joystick

It makes around the dock, it makes everybody look like a superstar!

Even I can use the joystick to dock

Especially, grand kids and kids get on the boat,

If they’ve been playing video games all their life, this is child’s play for them.

Oh perfect

Then the sister company, Back Cove, is a little bit more of a traditional economical kind of lobster boat functionality,

where they are all single engine outboard boats.

What’s your hottest selling product?

The hottest selling product right now for Sabre is the one we’re standing on right now.

The 45, which is a new model about 18 months ago. Really popular twin cabin design and

then for Back Cove they introduced at this show last year, we introduced the 34o ,

which is the first outboard version of Back Cove.

We can’t keep those in stock.

Put your order in now

People can custom design these boats, I imagine.

Within a platform, yes, there’s a long options sheets, custom build them.

We often have them in stock too

See there guys, where else would you want to go?

That’s right

Can you give us any insight scoop to what may be coming and for next year 2020?

Yeah, we’re really excited about next year, for both brands.

Sabre is coming out with a new 58.

Actually, that hull number one is just about complete.

We’re hoping to see that this winter.

That’s been so popular that we’ve sold the first 13 or 14 just off the drawings.

Beautiful three cabin three stateroom boat.

Then Back Cove just yesterday here at the show announced

their second outboard boat which will be a 39-foot, 39o, 39-foot two cabin boat.

Since you have new product all the time, you must have a great celebrity clientele.

We do, If I told you, I would have to kill ya, right?

Yeah right! Just throw me overboard!

If you keep your eye out on the water you’ll notice enough out there,

we try to respect their privacy.

Do they have special celebrity flags, like a burgee, on the front?

They try to be incognito out there as well, that’s their family time as well.

That’s a great opportunity for them to get away from the hustle and bustle.

I’d like to ask,  Do you have a signature dance move?

I know your kids will be able to tell all, but they’re not here today.

yeah, they would kill me.

We’ll do it together

Well I think I would just have to go with raise the roof

Alright! Raise the roof!

Boston Yacht Sales!

That is what we are hoping to do here this week

Oh I love that! That’s great!

How can people reach you?

The best place to start is our website www.bostonyacht.com

We’ve got physical offices in Marblehead, in North Weymouth, as well Falmouth.

You can find all the information for all of our brokers and all the boats we represent on the website.

All right, What’s your favorite boat show of all time?

It’s got to be the Newport International Boat Show, right?

This is it! Look at the weather, the people can’t beat it!

Thank you so much!

That was great talking to you, getting to know you, getting to know your business and

We look forward to seeing you on

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Welcome to Newport Living and Lifestyles.

I’m Christon and today is the August photo contest of the month.

Anybody who hashtags #NLandL enters to win.

You can also tag @NewportLivingAndLifestyles if you wish.

You will all be seen and one winner will be chosen today!

Joining us is guest photographer Cory Silken.

Cory Siken Photography, right on Thames Street and

Kevin Hegerty from 12 Meter Charters

who’s offering $100 gift certificate and a bottle of bubbly

That’s one ride, right?

One sail on one of the 12 meters in Newport.

Tell us a little bit about 12 Meters,

Where you’re located and your boats.

We’re down on Bowens Wharf. 12 Bowens Wharf

and we have a couple of America’s Cup boats. Colombia and Heritage.

whoever wins this will enjoy a fun sail on hopefully Columbia with me.

Have you ever been on one of the charters?

Yeah I have, actually that’s where I met Kevin years ago .

Certainly one of the best charters in Newport

when you want to get out for an afternoon or an evening.

Have you taken photos of the boats or with the boats?

Yeah they are also some of the most beautiful boats in the harbor for sure.

Certainly these old boats have the graceful lines that new boats just can’t quite match.

Yes, for sure, definitely had some of the most beautiful photos of Columbia.

I am looking around his gallery right now.

So if you want to see some pretty pictures of Columbia come in the gallery.

Do you have any crazy fun stories about your charters that you can actually say out loud?

We meet all types of people. We are on the water every day, we meet people from all walks of life.

When they get on the water it’s a great experience for them.

I have to say he’s been really super busy so it was really hard to put him down.

so we’re really happy to have 12 meters a part of our show today.

Thank you for having us.

Where can people find you on the website? Do they need to buy tickets in advance?

The website is 12MeterCharters.com

or you can come down, we have a little kiosk downtown.

You can buy a ticket there for a fun sail.

We do a lot of corporate events and team-building. We don’t just race on the boat.

We actually just won the 12 Meter World Championships.

Hurray! Congratulations!

Thank you!

That’s so exciting!

yeah I was a pretty extraordinary event.

How many 12 meters were there?

The biggest gathering of 12 meters ever in the US, there were 22

12 meters from all over the world.

Yeah and this was a really busy summer for all of sailing in Newport.

You can see one of the s-class photos behind us here.

We also had the s-class 100th anniversary here in Newport this summer,

which is actually what my new book is about, which my father wrote and I did the photography for.

The S-class was the Herreshoff S class was designed and built up in Bristol RI, Just near by here.

The boats were originally designed in 1919, there were

about a hundred boats built and roughly half of them still exist. We had

21 boats on the bay racing here. There were a few others that are in racing

condition but weren’t able to make it, but still it was extraordinary having so

many of these old boats still racing so competitively, you know, we talked about

racing, well certainly, you can see in the picture behind us that they are tight and still very competitive.

You really have amazing photos, how did you get started in the photography world.

I started in photography back in school.

I was always into out-door adventures and

wanted to be able to show the gorgeous scenery with all my friends and family, when I would come back.

I grew up sailing, so certainly I blame my parents for that aspect of it.

It’s nice to blame your parents for everything, you know, even our personal shortcomings.

Yeah and I’ve just taken it from there.

yeah that’s great

I just saw recently on Facebook that you’re with some really

extraordinary people including Annie Leibovitz.

It was quite an extraordinary event, Greta Thunberg, who is an environmental activist from Sweden was

coming across the Atlantic with Team Milizia which is IMOCA 60 ocean racing team.

They brought her and they sailed her across the Atlantic because

she didn’t want to have the environmental impact of flying in an airplane.

You know, of course, that is also a great media for sailing and promotion of sailing

having her come on this boat. Quantum Sails also sponsored this team and they just

arrived. With the wind of course, you never know when the transatlantic

crossing boat sail boat is going to arrive and they came in late Tuesday

into New York and it was pretty extraordinary to see her and all the

fanfare in New York Harbor, even even despite that lousy weather and then

Annie Leibovitz was out there making a portrait of her as well, so we

got to hang out with her in the morning and it was it was quite a special day.

Where can people find your artwork?

My website CorySilken.com

You can also look for @silkenphotography on Facebook and at @silkenphoto on Istagram.

It’s really fantastic, so you mostly focus in the sailing community?

Mostly yachts, although I do shoot some portraits and some interiors as well.

My work with a number of regatta sponsors and shipyards and private yacht owners and

do some book projects and of course fine art as well around yachting and local scenery.

Cory’s chosen five photos or eight photos? How many photos did you choose today?

We have 8 photos from the Newport Living and Lifestyles photo contest.

We’re gonna take a look at them and hopefully

you’ve chosen the winner so stay tuned to the end and find out who the big winner is!

This first one is a neat shot from @Kara_Ann322

It’s a photograph of the reflection of the bridge at sunset or sunrise and some sunglasses on the beach.

The bridge is very popular, yeah wow, I love the colors in this, almost opalescent, iridescent, fairyland like.

What do you like about it?

I just like the picture.

I just like it.

I like it a lot.

And that’s how you should view photography,

if it’s something that you like, there’s there’s no more rationale needed.

If you like it, you like it, and that’s good enough, that is certainly a lot of my

customers here in the gallery. Something that when you connect with it , that’s that’s all you need to know.

She had 131 likes on this, so that’s great, good job.

Yeah and the next one is from @AnnM816 which is a photograph of bird.

It’s a hummingbird.

A hummingbird, yes.

Gorgeous colors.

Wow, that’s beautiful.

wow it’s so just clear.

Yeah it’s a very crisp image and very very nice with the

pink against the green background. There must have been some other trees

or bushes behind it. Yeah it’s very pretty.

and it’s hard to choose and narrow it down to 10, We have some really great local photographers and

just people with even with their iPhones, so this is, this is not an easy feat,

that’s why I bring in the judge photographers.

Yes and the next one that we have here is from @TimNewportRI and

it’s photograph of Newport Harbor with

some of the rocks in the foreground and it’s a really pretty shot.

Yeah gorgeous the reflection I just love the way the ocean here really picks up on pinks and

The pastels in the clouds and just the curve of the cloud

in the sky really brings your eye into the image very nicely.

I like it.

He likes it, “Mikey Likes It”

The next one is from @JMich78photography which is a

photograph of some poppies in a field with some cloudy sky in the background.

It’s really nice. I think the color of the sky, the kind of blue gray, as it goes

against the bright yellow of the flowers, sunflowers.

It’s a really nice contrast and I’ve seen a lot of these ominous clouds here a lot lately.

Do you like it?

Of course I like it.

Sunflowers are so cool

It’s going to b the ongoing theme of every picture now.

It is.

Alright and and the next one is from @SailOnHopeSan and of course it wouldn’t be very

good if we didn’t have any pictures of boats in here. This is a great

picture of a boat in the fog, with I’m assuming, that’s the sun trying to break

through the background, which is a scene we’ve seen all too often this summer in Newport.

Right Fog.

and you know they won laughs last month too!

Oh did they? okay

Oh yeah! Patrick and Monica, they charter “Hope San”, their sailboat.

They always get really great photos out on the water.

Here we have one from @l_Double

I really like his work a lot.

Reaching into the sun of the road.

Lee Abney has really fantastic stuff you can always, always know when it’s his picture. It’s really unique.

Yeah, you’ll have to check some of his stuff out. Nice work Lee.

230 Likes, that is a lot! Good job

The next one is from @DMN-images

It’s kind of a neat shot at the beach with

some glow sticks I guess.

Do we have rave parties here that I’m not aware of?

Right?

Are you guys going to the rave parties?

Ya know, at 4AM you never know what’s gonna happen.

That’s true.

I don’t think that one was quite a 4AM

A neat shot nonetheless,

Nice creativity in this bunch of images.

DMN_Images, 107 likes, 3 days ago. Good work.

Then this next one which is which is my favorite.

Oh could this possibly be the winner? this is it?

This is the winner! drum roll….

@Anastasia_M_Arnold

Anastasia!

It’s a shot at the beach, with the lifeguard tower and a surfboard and a

group of presumably either surfers or lifeguards more likey.

It’s framed really nicely. It’s got a nice mood to it and just nice muted

color for the scene which works really well with it.

Makes it pop.

A little bit misty on the water.

I love what she says here. What does she say

Stand 5 is my hangout place. I’ve

never enjoyed the beach as much this summer as before, so peaceful.

Congratulations Anastasia Arnold.

Congratulations, great photo.

You can come on down to Cory Silken

store located at 518 Thames Street.

518 Thames Street and collect your bottle of bubbly and you’re sailing tour.

We’ll get a really fun photo with you, right guys?

Yeah absolutely, can’t wait to meet you.

Congratulations to everybody who enters.

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