“I put about 200 hours a year on my boat,” said Jim Dozier, owner of an Azimut 50 Flybridge. Jim and his wife, Ann, frequently cruise to the Bahamas from their home in Pompano Beach, Florida. During their most recent voyage in June 2019, they visited West End; Spanish Cay, Green Turtle Cay and Elbow Cay in the Abacos; cut across the deep Tongue of the Ocean to Eleuthera, then stopped at Chub Cay and Bimini on the way home.

It didn’t take long for Jim and Ann to decide they wanted to move up to a bigger yacht. Jim called his MarineMax Pompano Sales Consultant, Sean Doyle, and worked with him and his father, MarineMax Yacht & Brokerage Sales Executive Mike Doyle at the MarineMax Yacht Center in Pompano Beach, to find the perfect vessel for their needs. “I feel like I have a father-and-son team,” Jim said. 

Jim and Ann invited two other couples to join them on different legs of their trip through the Bahamas, during which they stayed in marinas on seven different islands. “It was great to be so many places and meet so many interesting people,” Jim said. One day in Eleuthera, they chartered a fishing guide, then took their catch back to the chef at Valentine’s Resort restaurant, who cooked it and served it to them that evening. “We met Eleanor, who worked at Valentine’s restaurant. Her daughter works at Chub Cay,” Jim recalled. Later in the trip, they met the daughter and brought her greetings from her mother. “We’ve had that happen multiple times,” he said.