Yachting USA — March 2018

16 YACHTING MARCH 2018

Denison Yachting recently completed the brokerage sale of a 48-foot 2015 Leopard. The buyer paid in bitcoin.

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iley sharp says the buyer approached him, of all

places, on YouTube. “I have my own YouTube channel

pertaining to my specialty area, which is catamaran sales,

and I kept getting people asking me on YouTube if they

could use cryptocurrency to buy a yacht,” the sales bro-

ker says. “After the third or fourth one, I decided I should learn what this is.”

By cryptocurrency, this particular buyer meant bitcoin, which Sharp’s

company, Denison Yachting, has accepted since December 2014. A re-

cent spike in bitcoin value has left a lot of early adopters fl ush, and this

one wanted to buy a 48-foot Leopard that Denison had listed for sale.

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Denison Yachting has buyers and charterers.

By Kim Kavin