Meet the Crew
So much of what makes Marine Servicenter so great is our crew!
Sales Team -Seattle
Dan Krier
V.P. Yacht Sales/Certified Professional Yacht Broker
Seattle/Bellingham/San Diego
dan@marinesc.com
Bio
Dan Krier
Dan KrierV.P. Yacht Sales/Certified Professional Yacht Broker
Seattle/Bellingham/San Diego
With over 25 years of experience in the boating industry, Dan brings a wealth of knowledge to the sales department. His extensive boating and marine industry experience combined with his degree in Aerospace Engineering and Naval Architecture studies gives him good balance in many facets of boat buying/ selling, handling, design and construction.
Dan has a passion for boating and has sailed most of his life. He holds several American Sailing Association instructor certifications and had a US Coast Guard Masters license. From daysailing to bareboat chartering to performance racing, Dan has taught hundreds of adults and juniors the sport of sailing. He has organized numerous sailing events, cruising functions, race series, and is currently the chair for the Mark Meyer Opening Day Regatta at the Seattle Yacht Club. Dan and his wife Lisa are both sailing enthusiasts. Besides campaigning their J/22 “Bullet” throughout the race season, they enjoy cruising and chartering around the world. Dan has lived, worked, and sailed throughout the Caribbean, Midwest, New England, and the Pacific Northwest. He has extensive charter, racing, and cruising experience on a wide variety of yachts.
Boating in the Northwest became more than just sailing for Dan when Marine Servicenter became the American Tug dealer in 2004. Dan’s experience with trawler style powerboats includes customer training and several deliveries on American Tugs and other trawlers. Most recently Dan and his wife Lisa cruised an American Tug 435 from Sitka to Ketchikan Alaska and then later from Sullivan Bay to Anacortes.
Dan has been a member of the Northwest Yacht Brokers Association (NYBA) since 2000 and has been a NYBA Board Member since 2009 moving to the Executive Committee serving as Secretary in 2010 and Vice President in 2011 & 2012. Dan is also the chair of the NYBA Grow Boating Committee. Past NYBA committees have included the Boat Show Committee, Joint NMTA/ NYBA Sailing Committee, and Grow Boating Committee. He is a Certified Professional Yacht Broker (CPYB) since 2004 and has been recognized by Jeanneau, Tartan, & Hunter on several occasions for outstanding performance.
Dan is an industry leader attending International Dealer meetings for several brands, Regional, National, & International Boat Shows, and has many contacts in the marine industry nationwide with manufacturers, dealers, and brokers to compare experiences and share knowledge with.
Dan is happy to share his boating and professional knowledge to help customers find the right boat to fit their particular needs. Visit Dan at either the Marine Servicenter Seattle office or meet him in Anacortes where he spends a lot of his time as well. Send Dan email at dan@marinesc.com.
Bio
Jeff Carson
Certified Professional Yacht Broker
Seattle
Jeff has been passionate about boating from an early age, learning to sail on the shores of Lake Erie at age 14. This love of the water, has led to years of racing dinghies and keel boats of all sizes in Ohio, Florida, and the PNW including trips up & down the inside passage to Alaska.
Over the years Jeff has owned and lived on several sail and power boats and understands the importance of finding the right boat to fit one’s lifestyle. He has cruised throughout the Pacific Northwest, the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and Caribbean. After 18 years in management in information technology, Jeff decided to follow his passion for boats and help others find the exact boat to ignite their own dreams on the water.
Jeff has been selling boats with Marine Servicenter for over 12 years and has been a Certified Professional Yacht Broker (CPYB) Since 2009.
As a sales representative for Ullman Sails, Jeff brings the world class design and quality of Ullman Sails to Marine Servicenter’s full service offerings. Jeff can be found at the Seattle office located at 2442 Westlake Ave N or can be reached via email at jeff@marinesc.com
Bio
Tim Jorgeson, CPYB
Certified Professional Yacht Broker
Seattle
I first sailed in 1971, my aunt and uncle had four daughters and they bought them a 14 foot flat bottom plywood sailboat. They would go out for smooth sailing in light breezes on mellow summer days. One week I had a few of my high school buddies out to our summer cabin and had the offer to take out that sailboat. At the time I was more into motorcycles and water skiing with the exhilaration of speed, not much interested in sailing. So off we went hearing and feeling the craft glide thru the water as the wind grew and we learned the meaning of body ballast. On the fourth crossing we were walking the hull up or her side, seeing how close we could come to letting water enter the cockpit. At this point we were laughing and having a ball. Then it happened, we went over and into the drink! After the laughter and enormous enjoyment from the thrill of riding on the edge, I was hooked.
With a lifetime of boating experience, literally, my folks picked up their first boat at Shilshole’s Ray’s boat house, I was four. So now, with over 40 years of experience boating in the Northwest waters. I have crewed on yachts to 100′ and owned several boats both power and sail with my current vessel a Dutch built offshore cruising ketch. I am a Certified Professional Yacht Broker and member of the Northwest Yacht Brokers Association.
I held a captains license with the US Merchant Marine, along and with years of power and sailing experience in the Northwest, California, Mexico and Hawaiian waters. Over twenty years of management and consulting experience in the information technology field where I was awarded the prestigious IBM Presidential Award of Excellence. The Admiral and I decided to focus on a career path enabling me to do what I enjoy, being on the water and helping others get there as well.
Whether building an option package for your next dream boat, arranging overseas deliveries or helping with a boat search to find the best boat to fit your needs. I can be reached via email at tim@marinesc.com, my cell at 206-276-5079 or you can find me at our Seattle Sales office on Lake Union.
Sales Team -Bellingham
Bio
Greg Farah
Yacht Broker
Bellingham
Greg has been on the water and around boats since the age of 5, owning a variety of power and sailboats. After a successful career in medical marketing, Greg “retired” and started a new career in the yachting industry. His 15 years in the marine business includes ownership and operation of a charter company and sailing school, as well as working as a broker in various locations on the west coast.
Greg has direct on the water experience with over 120 different boats (power and sail) and has cruised and raced extensively on the west coast. He is a U.S. Coast Guard licensed Master and an ASA certified sailing instructor.
Bio
Curt Bagley
Certified Professional Yacht Broker
Bellingham
Curt has been affiliated with the marine industry for 41 years. His experience is well rounded as a broker, boat owner, and brokerage owner. As a brokerage owner, he has represented almost all boats, both power and sail from the U.S., Canada, Taiwan, China, France, and Germany. Curt is a certified powerboat instructor.
Curt has the honor of being one of the first in the nation to become CPYB certified. (Certified Professional Yacht Broker). CPYB certification means he has been trained and passed extensive testing to achieve that high standard of ethics, maritime law, marine construction, escrow accounting, licensing, and closings. Over the years Curt has had the opportunity to also be factory trained with the U.S. Marine Yacht division, Meridian Yachts, Tollycraft, Ocean Alexander, and Navigator Yachts. He served for nine years on the board of the Northwest Yacht Brokers Association and was president for three years. He served on the Advisory Council for the Certified Professional Yacht Brokers of North America.
Most of all Curt enjoys helping boaters find the boat of their dreams and helping those boaters that wish to sell or trade up their boat. “I have made a lifetime of friends by representing them in all aspects of the industry over the years. For that, I am deeply grateful.”
Bio
Jon Knowles
Certified Professional Yacht Broker
Bellingham
Jon Knowles grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and has been involved with boating his entire life. Jon comes from a long linage of mariners including his Great-Great-Grandfather, Capt. Josiah Nickerson Knowles of Brewster MA was master of the clipper ships “Wild Wave” and “Glory of the Seas” and was involved with trade between Boston, Liverpool, and San Francisco in the mid-1800s.
In his youth, Jon raced Cal-20’s, Soling’s and other One Design Classes out of San Francisco Yacht Club, was a member of the UC San Diego college race team, and raced Lasers on the Minneapolis city lakes He relocated to the PNW in 1998 with his wife and 3 kids, and has since owned & cruised his boats in the San Juans, Gulf Islands & Desolation Sound with friends & family.
Jon has been very active in the Bellingham Boating and Youth Sailing Community. He races his Etchells and J/35 in the weekly club series and participates in regional racing events, including SYC Grand Prix, PSSC, Race Week, Round the County, and Swiftsure, while always making it a priority to invite, Youth, High School & College Sailor on his boats. He has done ocean races down the coast of California and transpacific crossings.
He was Commodore of the Bellingham Yacht Club, BYC Racing Fleet Captain, Etchells Fleet Captain, BYC Youth Fleet, and President of the Bellingham Youth Sailing Foundation.
Service Team – San Diego
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Mike Van Tuyl
Service Manager
San Diego
Mike is an avid sailor with over forty years of sailing experience up and down the Pacific coast from Canada to Mexico, along with sailing to Hawaii and around the Caribbean. Mike has 27 years of experience commissioning and servicing Jeanneau sailboats along with American and other European-built sailboat and powerboat lines. He has built and managed service departments in San Diego, Marina Del Rey, and Alameda, CA. He has also personally delivered new Jeanneau yachts to customers directly in France.
When a new yacht is delivered to the customer, Mike takes pride in walking the customers through their new product and invites them into his boating family for the entire time they have their boat. Once the new customer is introduced to Mike, they get his personal phone number, and he will answer each and every question founded on his extensive experience in the industry. If Mike does not have the answer he will find it promptly for the customer.
Mike was formally educated as a civil engineer and held a master electrician license and trained his employees ABYC and NMEA practice guidelines for the marine industry. His philosophy is to educate and create a team workplace in which employees come to work and learn engineering and electrical while enjoying work in a recreational atmosphere.
Mike believes in a team management approach utilizing the strengths of each person. He encourages a fun uplifting approach with a feeling of family showing the customer how to enjoy their investment in real-life activities in which his service team also participates in.
Service Team – Seattle
Bio
Ryan Ducey
Ryan DuceyService Manager
Seattle
Ryan is a native Seattleite and has more than 20 years of experience in the maritime and hospitality industries. He has worked all over the world in Europe, the Caribbean, and across the United States. Before coming to Marine Servicenter, he was the general manager of the Wharf Marina in Washington D.C. His previous career included being the Captain/Engineer of a 112’ Westport private yacht along the Atlantic Seaboard and in the Bahamas. He also ran private yachts in the Pacific Northwest and he was a Captain with a fleet of vessels operating in Washington DC, Miami, and the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Before his career in Yachting, Ryan managed valet parking operations in Seattle and in Atlanta. Ryan has combined his experience in customer service and love for working on boats. He is excited to be a part of the Seattle boating community!