Mike Francis
Boatshed Bahamas
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About Mike Francis
Engineer, originally from the United Kingdom (Yorkshire), resident in the US for 23 years.
Dual US/UK Citizenship, Private Pilot (with IMC and Seaplane Ratings), 100-Ton Licensed Ship Captain, Medical Device Patent Holder.
Languages: French and Russian
What did you do before working with Boatshed?Manufacturing automation, Medical Device engineer and Project Manager. Gt Channel Cay Marina (Long Island, Bahamas) Construction Project Manager.
What attracted you to become part of the Boatshed team? The pending threat of retiring, with nothing to do but play golf all day, every day. Time to have some fun, "Pay it Forward", and give back to the boating community. The Bahamas is ripe for a "state of the art", international, process and technology driven boat brokerage.
Are you a motorboater or a sailor?
Both - owned (and cherished) everything from a GP-14 (from the age of 6), to a 50' Angel Med Raised Pilothouse Trawler (from the age of 66).
What is your most memorable boating experience?
Delivering a 49' dis-masted yacht from US Virgin Islands to Florida during the height of the COVID epidemic -1300 miles at 3 knots.