KRIS GRIMNES – YACHT BROKER Yarmouth, ME, US (207) 798-9278 (207) 846-4545 kris@ecys.com Like most of us at East Coast Yacht Sales, Kristofer has a passion for sailing and the ocean. He spent time as a kid sailing dinghies and cruising the coast of Maine with his family. Kristofer was born in Norway, his father’s…
ROB GEAGHAN – YACHT BROKER Yarmouth, ME, US (207) 317-3652 (207) 846-4545 rob@ecys.com Rob grew up on the coast of Maine where he began sailing at the age of 8 through a local yacht club program. He learned many important lessons about teamwork in those early days of sailing turnabouts and 420’s. Later he would…
CHARLOTTE KINKADE – YACHT BROKER Yarmouth, ME, US (207) 807-3545 (207) 846-4545 charlotte@ecys.com Growing up in Kennebunk, Maine, Charlotte has spent most of her life on the water. Her mother taught her how to sail on a wooden boat her grandfather built and she has spent every summer since racing around the buoys aboard dinghies…
BEN SCHEFFER – AXOPAR BRAND MANAGER Yarmouth, ME, US (207) 846-4545 bscheffer@ecys.com Beginning with his first Portsmouth, NH, to Bermuda race at the age of 12 to working summers on the docks of Camden, ME from 14, and buying his own J/24 from ECYS at 16, Benjamin has spent every available moment around boats and…
WES LAWLER – SERVICE TECHNICIAN Yarmouth, ME, US (207) 846-4545 wes@ecys.com Wes is a 7th generation Mainer with over two decades of experience working on boats in marinas and shipyards. He inherited his love of boats from his grandfather who took a year traveling from Alaska to Mexico on a 52’ Grand Banks. His first…
LAURA PETERSON – CONSULTING/RETIRED Yarmouth, ME, US (207) 846-4545 laura@ecys.com Laura has been with East Coast Yacht Sales from day one, working as Jon’s assistant for 35+ years. In June of 1981 Laura answered an ad for a “yacht broker’s secretary” and the rest as we say is history. As a young girl Laura spent…
JON KNOWLES – VICE PRESIDENT Yarmouth, ME, US (207) 720-0004 (207) 846-4545 jon@ecys.com Jon grew up sailing out of the local boatyard and the Portland Yacht Club in Falmouth, Maine. Any chance to get on the water was always an opportunity taken. Racing with boatyard customers, delivering boats, cruising the Maine coast; all were part…