Story by TMC Editor / January 8, 2019
The Multihull Company is pleased to announce the opening of its new offices in San Francisco with its new agents Wayne Goldman and Sean Conner.
Multihulls California, situated in the heart of downtown San Francisco, is right on the water at Pier 40 on the Embarcadero.
The office is managed by associate broker Wayne Goldman, who has been around water his whole life and has sailed most of the waters of the world. He started out on his dad’s “huge” 21’ Chris Craft woodie cabin cruiser when he was still in diapers. He cried when his mom made his dad sell the boat to spend more time with the family. Once he had boating on his mind, he spent every chance he could on the lakes and rivers of upstate New York. Once he found the ocean when he went to college in New Hampshire, there was no turning back, buying and sailing boats wherever he went. He eventually ended up in California in a corporate job, but that did not stop him from buying his first cruising sailboat, a brand new Tayana 42’. During the next thrty years, Wayne would work a real job for a few years, then escape and go cruising for a few years.
Wayne has spent the last 20+ years in the marine industry, selling boating equipment to boat builders all over the world and doing international and local boat shows on the east and west coast. He has extensive experience with catamarans and has visited most of the catamaran factories around the world. For the past 5+ years, Wayne has focused his passion on helping other, like-minded boaters find the boat of their dream. With his vast knowledge of boats, and understanding what boaters are looking for, Wayne has been successfully finding the right boats for hundreds of boaters.
Sean Conner was born into a boating family, spending his childhood on and around the San Francisco Bay and Delta. This introduction to boating at such an early age stuck hard with Sean, who was never content unless he was on a boat.
After finishing school, Sean immediately went to work in South Florida for the Miss Geico Offshore powerboat racing team. Traveling extensively throughout the U.S. to nearly every boat race and major boat show, Sean was responsible for the preparation and maintenance of the teams several performance boats.
Having traveled home to spend some time in a family business, Sean’s need for adventure and salt water sent him to Mexico to crew on private yachts. From this point on, Sean found himself crewing on private yachts from Canada to Southern Mexico, including the Sea of Cortez and the Caribbean as far south as Grenada. After meeting many great people along the way that were looking to purchase or sell yachts Sean decided to obtain his Yacht Salesman license in California and begin working for The Multihull Company in California.
Being able to put real life, on-the-water experience into assisting his clients find the proper boat and equipment to fulfill their dreams has been invaluable. Sean’s hands-on knowledge of both power boats and sail boats have made him a very versatile resource for all of his clients needs.
Wayne and Sean now join The Multihull Company to open TMC San Francisco and assist clients with all of their buying and selling needs in the California and abroad. With offices situated in the downtown San Francisco and within close proximity to all of the major marina and facilities, they are ideally located to assist in the purchase or sale of your next catamaran.
If you are shopping for a boat in the California, or looking for assistance with the sale of your boat, Wayne and Sean are ready to assist!
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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