Looking through some important yachting sites, related to brokerage, brokers, companies and almost everything related to yachts in general, I discovered with great sadness that the company of which co-founder I was, disappeared altogether from the market. It was expected, only I wouldn't ever thought it was going to happen so soon. A few months ago, still, the remaining guys were paying top dollar advertising around, thing I haven't advised at the time I was still in charge. It was hard to manage, and I'm gonna tell you why, on the next lines, here. I was in a zone with a tremendously beautiful climate. Mediterranean covered by low mountains, oranges with olive trees and a lot of other fruits considered exotic even a few hundred miles north, :). At the end of the seventies, last century, of course, beginning of the eighties, British owned and French owned yachts, along with some Dutch and German ones, discovered the savage golfs of the area. They threw anchor and started to trade with the locals, for fresh food. The locals started to organize themselves, so a lot of small restaurants were created, almost from scratch. The guys were barely alphabetized and the main revenue was coming from the almonds (free for them, the trees won't need even to be watered in the long days … [Read more...]