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INFORMATION AND ADVICE.....for Yacht Buyers, Owners, and Sellers.....by PHIL FRIEDMAN, New Build & Refit Consultant

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PHIL FRIEDMAN: With 30 some years in the marine industry, I've worked variously as a yacht designer, boat builder, marine business manager, yacht surveyor, consultant, yachting writer and editor, and industry educator. I am trained and experienced in interest based negotiating. In a previous life, I taught logic and philosophy at university.

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Phil Friedman continues in active practice as a New Build and Refit Consultant, in which capacity he works on behalf of yacht buyers, owners and shipyards to develop and manage new-build and major refit projects...from initial concept through completion and delivery.

Phil also continues to maintain his long-established marine technical and business consultancy. His most recent consulting work includes the planning and management of several naval engineering projects, the planning and supervision of shipfitting for composite fast patrol vessels, and the start-up planning and management of prototype construction for a new line of 65-foot high performance catamaran motor yachts that incorporate patented active air-lift technology. He also recently handled the start-up planning and operations management of a marine joinery firm that specializes in the pre-fabrication and installation of high-quality, ultra-light yacht cabinetry and furniture.

As president and CEO of world-class megayacht builder, Phil was responsible for executive management of a group of companies with annual gross revenues in excess of $100 million and nearly 600 employees across the country. Under his direction, the company developed and sold several hundred million dollars in new yacht construction and major refit work, and built and delivered a dozen luxury megayachts in the 30- to 60-meter range utilizing Critical Path Planning and Management techniques introduced by him to the shipyard.

Prior to that, Phil was VP-Operations and CFO for a multi-location yacht dealership and chain of boatyards employing more than 150 craftsmen and trades people in the maintenance and refit of luxury yachts. He has also operated his own custom boatbuilding shops, and through the years maintained an active design, survey, and marine consulting practice. Numerous yachts have been built to Phil's designs in various parts of the world; and several of these have made successful trans-oceanic passages.

As a consultant from 1984 to 2000, Phil provided a broad range of marine-related technical, business, and marketing services to a wide array of clients that included yacht owners, boatbuilders, marine manufacturers, and aerospace companies, as well as marine-sector marketing, advertising, and public relations firms.

As boating writer/editor, Phil tested and evaluated hundreds of yachts worldwide. He has published more than 600 articles on yacht design, construction, repair, and maintenance; and he is the author of the electrics and electronics chapters of later editions of Chapman’s Piloting, Seamanship, & Small Boat Handling, considered by many to be the bible of recreational boating. His articles have appeared in Power & Motoyacht, Professional Boatbuilder, Boatbuilding, Boating, Motorboating & Sailing, Yachting, Sail, Marlin, Boating World, Motorboat, Canadian Yachting, Pacific Yachting, Canadian Power Illustrated, Sailing Canada, Small Boat Journal, Motoryacht International, and numerous other marine publications.

On a more theoretical plane, Phil created the curriculum for, and directed the Marine Industry Management Program at Humber College of Applied Arts & Technology (Toronto), where he also taught boatbuilding and design. Phil was among the first people in the industry to apply computerized P.E.R.T. Analysis and Critical Path Management (CPM) to the construction of yachts. In the early 80's, he was awarded a grant by the Canadian National Research Council for his work in developing computerized specification programs for building small commercial fishing craft.

To contact Phil Friedman directly:

Email phil@portroyalgroup.com, or Telephone 1. 954.224.2145

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