Southeast 2nd Street 350
Fort Lauderdale, FL
United States
+1-215-508-2704
info@multihullcompany.com
Located in the heart of downtown Ft. Lauderdale, just one block off Las Olas Blvd with its wide range of restaurants, galleries, and boutique shops, The Multihull Company’s offices are just about the sweetest spot in town.
Whether it’s helping you arrange for a few nights in town while you are viewing boats in the area, arranging dock space for your boat at a great price, or assisting with any other service that might be needed on your boat, we are here to help.
The Multihull Company’s Fort Lauderdale office is managed by Senior Brokers Alexis De Boucaud, Caroline Laviolette, Cynthia Wummer and Dunbar Lewis.
Alexis, who developed a love for the sea at an early age racing dinghies in the waters of Brittany, France immigrated to the United States as a young man and shortly after developed a fluency in both French and English. He then went on to study business at Amherst College, but knew even then that his true passion was in offshore cruising. He began his professional yacht career as a captain sailing the storied seas of French Polynesia on a Fountaine Pajot Marquises 57 catamaran. While there, he developed a talent for sharing and communicating his love for blue-water sailing to his worldly guests. Alexis took this skill and then began working as the base manager for Nautor’s Swan Charters, a high-end charter company with over fifty Swans based in the Caribbean, New England and the Mediterranean. While at Nautor’s Swan, Alexis coordinated the sale of new yachts through the French defiscalisation program. He later instituted a successful yacht sales and management program to develop the fleet in non-French territories. This experience gave him substantial experience in the many facets of yacht sales and brokerage in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. Alexis joined The Multihull Company over ten years ago, working alongside founder Phil Berman to serve clients around the world.
Caroline Laviolette learned how to walk on a boat. She has cruised, raced and also lived aboard in her youth. Caroline started as a yacht broker in 2000 and has had the opportunity to work with clients in the purchase and sale of almost every type of cruising catamaran on the water today. She has helped hundreds of clients purchase yachts new and used from 30’-77’ and has come across every type of situation and problem that may arise in a transaction. She has sailed several of the world’s best cruising grounds including Florida, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Great Lakes, South Pacific, Northern Europe, Mediterranean and Mexico, and speaks fluent English, French and Spanish.
Cynthia Wummer delivers lasting value for her clients as a genuine sailboat specialist. Her vast racing and cruising resumé bears a depth of knowledge that creates a winning connection. Cynthia says, “Some people come to the buying process with next-to-no experience, while others are extremely qualified cruisers looking for their next-level boat. Having a broad spectrum of experience helps me draw out and achieve all the finer points of what my clients are looking for.”
The Multihull Company’s offices are located within a few minutes drive of the Lauderdale Marine Center which is Florida’s largest marine facility, a premier, all-inclusive, 38-acre complex designed to meet the needs of the world’s discerning yachtsmen, captains and crew. Here you will find an immense boatyard that can accommodate vessels of all sizes, over 1,000 feet of riverfront dockage, 110 floating slips, as well as all of the necessary resources to repair, refit, or refurbish your yacht. Lauderdale Marine Center gives you the unique ability to handle your own projects or tap into the wide array of resources conveniently located at the boatyard. On-site, you’ll find independent, skilled craftsmen, covering every marine service imaginable, from custom paint and graphics to fine cabinetry, interior design, refinishing services, electrical engineering, welding, refrigeration, and much much more.
If you need assistance with buyer or selling a catamaran in Fort Lauderdale, look no further than The Multihull Company’s team of S. Florida Yacht Brokers for all of your needs.
Yacht Broker Micheal Streng did a fantastic job helping us buy our dream retirement boat. He is pleasant, professional, smart, diligent, and totally focused toward ensuring the best outcome for us- his clients.
He helped us identify the key features we wanted. And, helped us then learn the market by seeing firsthand seeing all the boats available. How? By organizing a two day driving extravaganza to see as many boats available from dawn to dusk.
But, his crucial expert assistance continued throughout the whole buying process… helping us craft multiple offers and counter offers to ensure we “bought-right”!
His expertise continued with calmly helping us organize the multitude of details, from sourcing survey experts and renegotiating credits for issues… to ensuring our foreign manufactured vessel had duty paid receipts… thus all saving us much aggravation and thousands of dollars!
In closing, sourcing and buying a boat right has adventurous elements of the “wild-west”. Our Broker – Micheal Streng was our LoneRanger & Tonto… expertly guiding and helping us to help make our dream a reality.
Tom & Danielle
Waterford, Connecticut
We purchased a Lagoon 470 catamaran through Zvonimir (Zee) Kalinic, TMC’s broker in Croatia and Italy. Zee is the ultimate professional and by far the best broker we have ever had the pleasure of doing business with. Thankyou Zee for your professionalism, guidance and support in securing this purchase for our family! Not an easy task being Australian and purchasing in a foreign country but thanks to your help and the assistance of Andrew Holland in the office, this process was made so much more stress free.
Thank you Zee and The Multihull Compnay!
Andrew Hodgdon was a pleasure to have as a broker. He was always there for me and I appreciated his help and professionalism. Thank you Andrew!! Highly recommended.
Just wish to share our thanks with Cal Landau and The Multihull Company for their service selling our catamaran that we owned for nearly 15yrs. Cal our broker in West Palm Beach was THE BEST!
He worked with us beyond the call of duty in helping us prep and moor our boat during some horrendous weather that came through last Winter and always offered to lend a hand while we were in West Palm procuring supplies. etc. Cal was always present to show the boat, learned about our boat systems to answer questions from shoppers and made a very informative listing with great photos and video that attracted a lot of action. I wish to highly recommend Cal and The Multihull Co if you’re planning on putting your boat on the market.
The entire company was committed to my satisfaction as a seller. Andrew the broker went out of his way to help me prepare the boat for sale and in just 3 weeks we had it under contract. I had to be away from the country but Andrew the broker and Andrew (same name) the Chief Operating Officer walked me through all the paperwork needed and kept me informed at every stage of the sale. Boat owners don’t remain without a boat for long, if this is the case for me, I will certainly contact Andrew and the Multihull Company to be my broker.
Successful relationships cannot exist without it. At The Multihull Company we base every relationship on a firm commitment to earning and retaining our client’s trust.
Advice of any kind is valuable only when grounded in hard-won expertise. It too, must be trustworthy. Trust and expertise define the heart and soul of The Multihull Company. We are a team of skilled professionals who thrive on providing expert, trustworthy advice and service to catamaran and trimaran sailors around the globe.
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