We were to leave Maryland less than 40 hours before we were due in Charleston, South Carolina, for a Friday afternoon wedding party and to meet his wife and newborn son. The trip would be his first extended passage aboard the Eastbay, offering the rest of us an opportunity to watch an accomplished lifelong sailor embrace a motoryacht's speed. He learned fast. Of course, had we known about the quick purchase, quick sea trial and quick delivery of this boat, we would have found more than enough clues about how a boat ride would be in Teddy's fast-moving world. Boats are reviewed at boat shows.
Brokers spend countless hours sending listing after listing.
Nobody clued Teddy in about this process. In the entrepreneurial form he honed in the fast-moving Internet world, he slashed the process down to a week. Several possibilities popped up, including an Eastbay 49 Hardtop at the Oxford Yacht Agency. He reviewed the full listing and photos on Oxford's Web site, liked what he saw and arranged a sea trial. Several other prospective owners were not willing to move as fast.