Mark Davenport was born and raised on the West Coast of Florida and grew up in a family that always had large motor yachts. He worked his way through college as a dive master and then served active duty in the Marine Corps. Mark moved to California in 1999 and has been in yacht sales since. “I believe in open honest two-way communication with my clients and view the sale or purchase of their boat as just the beginning of the relationship”. He became very active in PHRF racing and has both owned and crewed high performance racing sailboats. Mark has logged over 20,000 nm as a delivery skipper, doing deliveries throughout the Caribbean, the East Coast and the West Coast from Washington to Mexico. Mark has owned and restored two large sailboats and is now working on his third project. He also has a project management company that helps cruising sailors outfit their boats for extended voyages. Mark has lived aboard for the past 10 years and is currently outfitting a 55’ sailboat for world cruising. Mark serves the LA Harbor, San Pedro and Redondo Beach areas.

Don Ross was raised in Newport Beach, California, and started boating at the age of five in local yacht club youth programs. He began formal sailboat racing in local regattas when he was twelve, and currently continues his enthusiasm for sailing in international races. Don became a certified sailing instructor with the American Sailing Association (ASA) in 1985. That same year, he earned his 100 Ton Master of Steam, Motor or Sail USCG License. In 1989, he began delivering yachts all over the world, including deliveries from Newport Beach to Spain, Ecuador, and Aruba, as well as many other Ports O‘call. Don enjoys sharing his lifetime of maritime knowledge through selling yachts, and providing hands on instruction to his clients. Don was the founder of Heritage Yacht Sales and works as an associate broker in the Newport Beach office.

Detlef Breymann, who works from the Long Beach office, has been boating most of his life. He came to the United States from his birthplace in Germany. During his teen years he and his father would build fiberglass runabouts in the backyard, and then would use them in the lakes of Michigan and the Great Lakes.

After college Detlef joined the U.S. Navy and was stationed in Long Beach, California aboard the destroyer USS Hollister. After serving in the Navy, Detlef got married to a native Californian and settled down in Southern California. It wasn’t long after that he purchased in his first boat, a 16ft used runabout. After a few years the family outgrew the boat and needed a bigger boat purchasing a new Wellcraft. Soon they began to take the boat to Catalina and the family decided they needed a larger vessel and upgraded to a Luhrs Sportfisher. Currently Det & his family enjoy boating on their 31’ Sea Ray.
Detlef joined the Alamitos Sail and Power Squadron and quickly got involved with classes, teaching, sail racing and crewing on various sail boats and in no time moved through the bridge chairs as Commander and was a Squadron Education Officer for three years. He is still involved with the Squadron and serves on several committees and teaches the Piloting class. Detlef also enjoys crewing on a Beneteau for the Long Beach Invitational, and Newport to Ensenada races. On Thursdays he crews on a Catalina for the Pop Tops at one of the local Yacht clubs.

Tony Duni is the current owner and broker of record for Heritage Yacht Sales and is a Certified Professional Yacht Broker and member of the California Yacht Brokers Association. He started in the boat business in 1974 working at Yacht Haven Marina. Tony has been a licensed yacht broker since 1987 and has owned Heritage since 2005. He added the locations in Long Beach, San Diego and L.A. Harbor. Tony is an active boater, owning a 45' Mainship Trawler and is a member of the Seal Beach Yacht Club and the U.S. Power Squadron. Tony is also the current owner of Yacht Haven Marina in L.A. Harbor.

Barry Wood grew up in Long Beach sailing Lido 14s with his father Harry. He sold Columbias & Islanders with his neighbor Duncan McIntosh. Shortly after he worked with Eddie Arnold selling several brands of sailboats and also with Roger MacGregor selling the MacGregor line. Barry is a former Long Beach Lifeguard and U.S. Army veteran with a Purple Heart award. An avid sport angler, Barry enjoys fishing on his Boston Whaler and has cruised sailboats in the Virgin Islands, Mexico and Tahiti and is an active sailboat racer with numerous championships. Barry has been a licensed yacht salesman & broker for 45 years and long relationships with the clients he has served. Barry works in the Newport Beach office.

Ray Wilson has just returned from 5 years of cruising with his wife Peggy and their two cats Blue and Layla aboard their 49’ Transpac “Sol Searcher. After many adventures cruising across the Pacific to French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Tonga, New Zealand, Fiji, Vanuatu, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and finally to Thailand they finally decided to head home to friends and family and have settled down in the San Diego area. Ray is a long-time boat owner and had 4 years of yacht sales experience in both power and sail before his cruising hiatus. Ray is working for Heritage Yacht Sales in the San Diego area and looks forward to working with buyers and sellers in the San Diego area.

My dedication to boats started at 9 years old when I got to work for nothing on a sport fishing party boat that my father took me for a half day fishing trip. This dedication has lasted all my life and as I finish my years as a yacht consultant, I look back and feel grateful for the opportunity of spending my life doing what I love. My experience includes 20 years with the Orange County Sheriff’s department as a harbor patrolman. During that period I ran my own yacht maintenance business, owned several sport fishers, and built 4 boats. I left the harbor patrol to take a job with Hans Christian as commissioning manager, and worked my way to sales manager, then vice president of West Coast Sales. During this period we sold over 800 Hans Christian yachts. After I left Hans Christian employment due to the ill fated luxury tax. I still held the rights to sell the Hans Christian line, and became sales manager for Far West Shipyard and brokerage. I introduced the Los Cabos 30 sport fisher, and opened Craig Beckwith Yacht Sales in Newport Beach. I then became a member of the California Yacht Brokers assn. and was on the board of directors for three years and became first vice president of the CYBA. I closed my brokerage due to landlord problems, and went to work for several other very good brokerages. I recently chose to become a member of Heritage yachts based on their professionalism, their 4 offices from LA Harbor to San Diego, and a stellar reputation. I look forward to finishing my career with Heritage, and promotion of the Pantawee Marine Company LTD. of Thailand, The builders of the Hans Christian and Hallmark line of yachts.

Gary Schneider was born is Omaha, Nebraska and moved to Southern California in 1956. After spending 4 years in the Air Force he started his civilian career with IBM Corporation and worked in management with RCA, GE and Whirlpool throughout the western United States. During this time he raised four children, and is now the proud grandfather of 10 grandchildren and 1 great grandson. His boating career started while in the Air Force and has continued for the past 40 years, starting with various ski boats and power yachts for family vacations and trips to Catalina. Currently he owns a 42’ Catalina sailboat with his wife, Cathy. They have sailed together in the Virgin Islands as well as the Atlantic Coast of New England and the Southern California Coast. Upon moving to Long Beach in 1995, he joined Shoreline Yacht Club and became Commodore in 2005. He currently holds a 100 ton Coast Guard Master’s license as well as being a certified sailing instructor with American Sailing Association.

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