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DOUGLAS MASON Director of Sales and Marketing Sunset Harbour Yacht Club Miami Beach, FL
What got you involved in the marine industry?
I was inspired at an early age by my grandfather who was a skipper in the Navy. By middle school, I was attending sailing schools instead of summer camps, and then went on to work on my dad’s boat in the 1980s. At age 24, I lived on a 45-foot motorsailor for 10 years. My first marina job was at Shipyard Quarters Marina in Boston as the general manager back in the early 1990s.This 310-slip marina was located in Charlestown Navy Shipyard — it was a great location. After that I moved to Florida and have been at Sunset Harbour Yacht Club since 2009. You work in paradise. Where do you go on vacation? I would call my experience at Sunset Harbour Yacht Club working in paradise. Our office staff has been with me since I arrived in 2009. We clearly have a work “family,” and we look out for each other. Other than that any island will do! What famous person would you most like to meet and why? I would say Thomas Edison and Elon Musk, because they are the best of the great inventors of their time. Especially Elon Musk and his electric car — he was a genius when it came time to launching innovative and relevant projects. Where do you like to send people for an authentic dining experience when they arrive at your marina? Right across the street are several GREAT
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