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[bs_citem title=”Mark Wieber” id=”citem_654a-abe9″ parent=”collapse_faba-374b” open=”true”]
Atomic Tuna Yachts
Mark has spent most of his boating life in San Francisco Bay, the Pacific Coast, and the Sacramento Delta. His family has always had some sort of boat. Even if it was just a skiff with an outboard, or a Mini-Fish sailing dinghy. His Uncle had him backing trailers and driving a ski-boat at 15, and in his 20’s you could find him as a “sand bag” in the VYC beer can races, balancing out a Columbia 26 or moving up the ranks to crew on Cal-29’s.
He and his wife have owned a Catalina 36, a Slocum 43, a 38 foot Sea Ray Sundancer, a 280 Sundancer and are currently breathing life back into a 1981 Monk 36. He was Commodore of the EYC in 2013, and spent seven years as an EYC flag officer.
Mark has crewed on many deliveries, with all sorts of boats, and now holds a USCG Captains License. His love of boats and boating is notoriously contagious.
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[bs_citem title=”Geli Burgin” id=”citem_b626-a20c” parent=”collapse_faba-374b”]
Accounting & Sales Ahi – Atomic Tuna Yachts
As a little kid, growing up in the land of 10,000 lakes, Geli always knew she would be happiest working outside. It’s been 25 years since she moved out to California where her Mom and Step Dad first introduced her to sailing. While sailing with her parents, she jumped at the chance to introduce co-workers and friends to sailing on San Francisco Bay, as well as the boating lifestyle.
After 18 years in corporate America, Geli pursued her dream to become a captain and delivered boats up and down the coast for a few years before going back to the steady “eddy” office life where she served as Vice President in billion dollar companies and CFO in a fast growing start up.
Geli met Wayne just before he and her Mom delivered a boat from Cape Town, South Africa to Florida. Geli would call that time frame in her life, “peak envy”, which re-ignited her passion to buy a boat of her own, master it and live-aboard it. For the past four years she has lived her dream, living aboard ‘Irene’, her Grand Banks 42′.
Geli thoroughly enjoyed the boat purchasing experience so much that she wants to share that experience with others, ensuring that their boat buying/selling experience is a positive one. Geli’s vast background in finance, operations and boating will ensure you will have a positive and memorable experience with Atomic Tuna Yachts.
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[bs_citem title=”Wayne Goldman” id=”citem_3c6d-46f4″ parent=”collapse_faba-374b”]
Chief Ahi – Atomic Tuna Yachts
Wayne has been around water his whole life and has sailed most of the waters of the world. He started out on his dad’s “huge” 21’ Chris Craft woodie cabin cruiser when he was still in diapers. He cried when his mom made his dad sell the boat to spend more time with the family. Once he had boating on his mind, he spent every chance he could on the lakes and rivers of upstate New York. Once he found the ocean when he went to college in New Hampshire, there was no turning back, buying and sailing boats wherever he went. He eventually ended up in California in a corporate job, but that did not stop him from buying his first cruising sailboat, a brand new Tayana 42’. During the next thirty years, Wayne would work a real job for a few years, then escape and go cruising for a few years.
Wayne has spent the last 20+ years in the marine industry, selling boating equipment to boat builders all over the world and doing international and local boat shows on the east and west coast. He has extensive experience with catamarans and has visited most of the catamaran factories around the world. For the past 5+ years, Wayne has focused his passion on helping other, like-minded boaters find the boat of their dream. With his vast knowledge of boats, and understanding what boaters are looking for, Wayne has been successfully finding the right boats for hundreds of boaters.
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