Wild Dolphin Adventures Key West, Florida, USA

The sale includes the boat and boating equipment, snorkeling equipment--masks, fins, and snorkels, dock slip lease, large dock box which holds a refrigerator with ice maker, web site, desktop computer with software for working on the web site and many other programs, rack card style brochures for rack systems, signs and photo boards, an auto-dial telephone hotline on the dock in front of the boat, and various other advertising venues. I have exclusive contracts with Historic Tours of America for booking customers through their local computerized gateway system and online Trusted Tours website. HTA has many sales outlets around Key West.

I was on the commercial dock slip waiting list 14 years to get the dock slip lease from the City of Key West. Obviously, they don't come up very often. The slip is located in a excellent high pedestrian count walk by area of the Key West Bight on the main Harbor Walk seawall in between the Turtle Kraals Restaurant and the Waterfront Market. Many years ago this particular dock slip was leased by Jimmy Buffett for his sail boat SAVANNAH JANE.

I will train you in the business if you want to run the boat yourself (a USCG Captain's License is required) or you can continue on with my hired Captain, or both. I am getting old and am ready to retire.

Sale Price reduced to $90,000. Potential maximum gross income using the current scheduling concept is easy to figure: 6 people per trip times 2 trips per day times 365 days a year times $85 per person = $372,300.00 plus the sunset trip 6 x $75 x 365 = $164,250, totals for the 3 trips = $536,550. Weather will knock out some days, of course. Getting the customers to fill up the 6 seats on each of the 3 trips per day when the weather is good enough to go out is the marketing challenge you would face. Lowering the price per person could possibly bring in a bigger volume of people. The slip will hold a larger USCG certified boat that could carry more passengers per trip. A former boat that occupied the slip could carry 22 people although there exists other boats that will fit the slip that are rated for lots more than that. Any change of concepts, passenger rating counts of the boat, and an actual new boat would have to be approved by the City of Key West. You could change the concept to other water sports if you desired with the exception of fishing. There is a cap on fishing boats and no new ones are allowed in the City Marina at Key West Bight.

The City does allow living aboard boats should you want to save money on expensive Key West housing and live aboard a boat in the slip. The existing boat does have a small basic cuddy cabin with two bunks and a porta potty. The slip is right in front of the rest room building which has showers for live aboard tenants. If you wanted to switch boats to one that had better live aboard creature comforts, that would be up to you. The clearance between the poles is approximately 13'9". I think the ideal boat would be one that was certified for say, 22 to 25 passengers and also was designed for living aboard. I have not found one like that yet. If you know of one, please let me know. The marina has wireless internet available with good reception at the slip. Comcast TV cable/high speed internet is available to the slip.

Call me toll free at 1-866-296-3737 or cell phone 1-305-304-8000 (and save charges if mobile to mobile). Thank you. Capt. Dave Lewis

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