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Buying a yacht starts long before a sea trial — it starts with research. Minted Yachts is a Fort Lauderdale yacht brokerage founded by Tony Smith, a USCG 100 Ton Master with more than 15 years in the industry, and we publish the research we would want as buyers: verified specifications with sources on file, honest model reviews, realistic operating-cost guidance, and video walkthroughs of the boats that matter.

Wherever your search begins — a search engine, an AI assistant, our YouTube channel, or a dock walk at the Fort Lauderdale boat show — you will find the same verified facts here, held to the standards on our Editorial & Data Standards page. When you are ready for the boat itself, you get a broker who has run these hulls, knows their trade-offs, and answers the phone.

Tony Smith, Founder & Senior Broker

Tony Smith

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Minted Locations are the markets we work for buyers — the marinas, the dock-and-dine runs, and the market knowledge, every figure sourced from the facility itself.

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The Southeast Coast Has Two Falls. Plan for the Second.

The Atlantic's most dangerous six weeks and the Southeast's best cruising weather sit about a month apart. Hurricane activity peaks on September 10, with most of the season's action falling between mid-August and mid-October, and the frontal weather that makes this coast a pleasure to run arrives behind it. Plan the fall around that handoff and the rest of the trip mostly plans itself.

What 26 Inches of Draft Buys You on the Gulf Coast

Draft picks your boat on Florida's Gulf side, and it picks it before length, brand or layout get a vote. The federal waterway behind the barrier islands is held to nine feet. The beaches worth crossing the state for sit in a fraction of that. The structure you fish sits in ten to forty-five. Those three numbers settle more than any brochure will.

Sign Up for the Water: A Mediterranean Week Aboard

The best swim of a Mediterranean week happens before nine in the morning, and almost everything that makes the rest of it possible gets sorted weeks earlier. The dive sites inside the national parks want you registered. Fishing off the transom wants a permit, and in Italian water it now wants an app as well. The markets that feed the boat shut at lunchtime. None of it is hard. It just has to happen before you cast off.

Lagoon Eighty 2

Lagoon Eighty 2 Review: Inside the New 82-Foot Flagship Sailing Catamaran

The Lagoon Eighty 2 is the new flagship of the yard's sailing range: 81'9" overall, roughly 338 m² of upwind sail area, a flybridge of more than 50 m² with twin helms, and three published layouts spanning four to six cabins. Here is what Lagoon actually publishes, and the trade-offs that come with her.

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