My boating life started way back in 1955 (yes, I am really that old) with a summer job driving a fishing boat for a friend of the family. I learned much that year but the overwhelming lesson was that I need to fish! As I grew older, went to college and off to corporate America (where the companies I worked for kept trying to make me a landlubber), the sea, the sails and the fish kept pulling me back to where I belonged so, more than 15 years ago, I left it all to become a Yacht Broker. This was quite a risk for a family man with three children, but the risk was worth it - especially since JM YACHTS opened in 2003. I don't get to fish as often as I would like to, but I can see water, boats and a few fish jumping outside the office every day and know that this is definitely the life for me.

Member Yacht Brokers' Association of America, Member & Past Treasurer Gulf Coast Yacht Brokers’ Association, Member Boating Trades Association of Metropolitan Houston, Member Texas Mariners' Cruising Association

Email - jerry@jmyachts.com jerry@jmyachts.com

Karol Moulder, CPYB
Principal

My introduction to boating came in the mid-1970's when my cousin and I each held 50% interest in what we affectionately called the "infamous boat that no one owned". She was a 17-foot ski boat that we trailered around to ski and motor the rivers and lakes of Western PA. For the next 30 years, I traveled throughout the US, Canada and the Caribbean as a sales/marketing rep for a variety of medical diagnostics companies. I gave up the "glamour" of travel to be a yacht broker when I joined my husband in his business in 2003, JM YACHTS, and turned my love of water and boats into an exciting new career.

Member Yacht Brokers' Association of America, Member & Past Secretary Gulf Coast Yacht Brokers’ Association, Member Boating Trades Association of Metropolitan Houston, Member Texas Mariners' Cruising Association

Email - karol@jmyachts.com karol@jmyachts.com

Pam Rice

After many years of boating not only in the US, but also in Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean and experiencing life in three foreign countries, my husband and I came back to Texas and settled down on the Gulf Coast as liveaboards on our 44’ sailboat (that we still live on at the Galveston Yacht Basin). Almost at the same time, I decided that I needed a career change so I left the world of crisis social work and became a yacht broker in the Clear Lake area. These last ten (+) years have brought both challenges and successes to my life, but I have never regretted my decision to turn my love of boating into a career where I have met so many wonderful people and have helped them to buy or sell the boat that allowed them to pursue their dreams, on or off the water. Somewhere in the early years of my new career, I met Jerry Moulder and he introduced me to the Gulf Coast Yacht Brokers Association where I recognized the advantages of cooperative brokering, so I jumped right in and became an active member of the organization – so much so that I have served on the Board of Directors for six years, was elected President in 2006 (by the way, I was the first female president of GCYBA) and was honored two years in a row as Yacht Broker of the Year which had never happened to anyone before. For anyone that knows me, they know that this is the second time that I have been part of the JM YACHTS team. For them and some who don’t – the question is why did I leave and why did I come back? The answer is simple....an opportunity presented itself to me that allowed me to expand my horizons as a yacht broker with a very large brokerage that was new to Texas, but after one year I found myself missing the people I met as they casually walked the dock (whether they were buying, selling or just getting a little exercise) and I decided that the best place for me was at a brokerage on a floating dock. And maybe, just maybe, I even missed Jerry and Karol a little bit (but don’t tell them that). So I’m back and ready to help you find your dream boat or sell your current one!.

Member & Current Board of Directors, Past President Gulf Coast Yacht Brokers Association, Yacht Brokers Association of America

Email - pam@jmyachts.com pam@jmyachts.com

Capt. Lou Roy

I was born and raised in Quebec City, Canada. Having an American father, I enlisted in the U.S. Army after high school and found myself bound for Korea. Three years later, my military obligation were fulfilled (or so I thought), I returned to Canada to work for my father. On a vacation to Florida I rented and sailed a sunfish. That’s all it took, I was hooked on boating! Since I could not afford to buy my own sunfish, I decided to build one which I sailed with passion.
In 1965, I was called back to the Army for the Vietnam War. I served a total of 12 years of active duty and 16 years in the reserve. I retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1994. During those years, I was stationed for awhile at Ft. Ord in Monterey, CA where I took up scuba diving. Obviously diving is much better when you have a boat to dive from, so I purchased a 20’ Cutty Cabin with twin outboards. In 1973 I relocated to Texas where once again, water was calling me, so I purchased a 16’ fishing boat. Next came an 18’ Hobie Cat and racing with my young daughter as crew. Now salt water seemed to really be calling me and the cruising desire was growing intensely, so the boats I bought kept getting bigger and the cruises kept getting longer until finally in 1991, I purchased a 43’ Ocean Alexander trawler and committed myself to preparing my new life.
Building my “cruising kitty” and obtaining my Coast Guard Captain’s License took a few years but the wait proved to be really worthwhile since the time included meeting my wife who, fortunately for me, also had a strong desire to cruise. Together we worked to make our dream come true and set off for the Caribbean in the late summer of 1999. We spent 6 winters in the Bahamas, cruised the East Coast and enjoyed a life that was awesome. But it was time to come home, so in the summer of 2006, we returned the last time from the Bahamas, bought a house and put “Texas Pride” up for sale.
Having met Jerry Moulder several years earlier (who, by the way, enjoyed several short trips on the “Texas Pride” himself), we entrusted him to list our boat with JM YACHTS. When Jerry learned that I was becoming a bit tired of constant “house remodeling” and missed the water, he talked me into coming back to the dock and using my knowledge of boats to broker with JM YACHTS. So if you’re looking for your perfect boat, give me a call or email me and I will be ready to help you make your dream come true, too!

Email - lou@jmyachts.com lou@jmyachts.com

Capt. Dave Hamilton

My love affair with boats began as a child in Lompoc, CA and became a career after attending UCSB where I studied Business along with Auto and Marine Electrical Systems. Soon after finishing school, I became an entrepreneur by opening a diesel and mobile repair shop in the Ventura and Channel Island Harbors where I offered full dockside services, including yacht deliveries for Carver, Chris Craft and privately owned boats up and down the West Coast. Time flew by and in the late 80s, I met my wife, Laura, and we (or was it “she”) decided to set up married life on land which, over the next 15 years or so, took us from the Keys in the Channel Island Harbor to the cold MidWest and I became a weekend captain and sportfisherman. About 2 years ago, we both had had enough of the cold and yearned to be near the water again, so we began to look for a boat to live on in a warm climate. Our search for the perfect boat was both fun and frustrating, but one day after a failed survey on what we thought was “THE” boat, I was wandering the docks in Shelter Island and ran into this fellow named Jim, told him that I had a 60’ slip in Port Aransas, TX and I wanted to fill it NOW. His first question was “Why are you looking for a boat to keep in Texas when you are in California?” To make a long story short, Jim immediately called Jerry at JM YACHTS (he didn’t tell me that he used to be a broker for Jerry) and in a very short time, together they found us the right boat, and we found ourselves living our dream in Port Aransas. Laura found a job in her field almost immediately and I opened a yacht service business which included captaining a 64’ luxury yacht - Life Was Good! Our friendship with Jim (who, by the way, is brokering again for JM YACHTS), Jerry and Karol flourished and in August 2007, I embarked on a new direction in my career that has turned into a great passion for me as a yacht broker for JM YACHTS. My motto is the same as the name of one of the boats that I maintain, “N-Joy-Life” and I am ready to help my customers find the boat of their dreams and claim my motto as their own.

Member Gulf Coast Yacht Brokers Association, Yacht Brokers Association of America

Email - dave@jmyachts.com dave@jmyachts.com

Jules Roels

My love of the water started when I was very young. I grew up around sport boats and homemade hydroplanes on a bank of the Fox River. Two teenage summers were spent helping my boss build a 40 foot ferrocement sloop (remember those?) in the parking lot of his restaurant. We launched her shortly before her sea trial in the Race to Mackinac Island on Lake Michigan.
The real world of university, marriage and a corporate career intervened for several years punctuated by Lake Michigan day sails and annual trips to the Caribbean. As my wife and I plotted a course to escape from the Chicago climate, we were faced with a choice of buying some property in Jamaica or a capable boat with an ocean view wherever we took her. The sunsets viewed from our cockpit here in south Texas are proof that hard work and a good plan pays off. And now that I have joined JM YACHTS as a Yacht Broker, my plan is to put the knowledge and experience I’ve acquired to match our customers in the Port Aransas/Corpus Christi area to help them reach their boating goals.

Email - jules@jmyachts.com jules@jmyachts.com

Jim Rogers

Way back in 1961 living a land-locked life, I got my Captain's license, developed a chronic case of wanderlust and began to plan and scheme for a life of cruising. The biggest problem I had with my plans was to make sure that my yacht was big enough to offer all the creature comforts of home. About twenty years ago that happened and off I went on the adventure of my life. During my travels, I met Katie, my feline best friend....she adapted quickly to being a boat cat, although I think she questioned her decision to cruise with me after a harrowing experience when our DeFever 48 went down. I really thought she was gone, but Katie was found covered in oil, scared but really glad to be rescued and didn't meow too much when we got underway again. Not too long after that experience, we met Jerry Moulder, bought a 51' Island Gypsy from him and began a lasting friendship that turned into a job as a yacht broker at JM YACHTS when I brought the boat back to Texas a few years ago to sell. But even though Katie and I decided it was time to move onto land, the wanderlust still twinkled and off we went again, first to Florida, then to Puerto Vallarta and San Diego - all along the way brokering boats of all sizes, including mine. When I hit Shelter Island, CA, I got my CA Yacht Salesperson License while working for a broker there, sold my boat, moved onto land and am back selling boats for JM YACHTS.

Email - jim@jmyachts.com jim@jmyachts.com