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Destiny Yachts
By: Tom Sanders
December 18, 2001

Dear Mike,

Destiny Yachts greatly appreciates the work done by The Dickman Group for the recent Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show in October. The booth and display were fantastic and we received many compliments from everyone. This year, with all our extended duties, we could not have done it without you. It was a pleasure to work with you and Reg and your organizational skills helped us to have a very successful boat show this year.

We would also like to thank you for the excellent assistance and professionalism of the hostesses you provided. It was a pleasure to work with Pahia and Bianca.

We wish you all a wonderful holiday and a prosperous New Year.

Sincerely,

Tom Sanders
Vice President Sales and Marketing
Destiny Yachts

Wes Dickman knows the marine business. He has been involved in one aspect or another of this industry for the last 40 years. He also knows the value of true friendship, family, and community, and like business, he says, the key to success is SUPPORT.

Ferretti has become one of the most respected names in the yacht market, with more than $60 million in American sales largely due to Wes' approach to sales and service. It seems he has accomplished what no one else has he has brought a foreign product into the American market and built a sterling reputation for reliability and service that is unparalleled in the industry. There are few limits to the lengths he will go to satisfy his customers.

Dickman offers after-sales service that surpasses owner expectations, and that's invaluable to the American consumer! Admittedly, it's not a novel idea to business, but in the yachting industry it's a novel practice.

A man named Ron Joyce bought the first Ferretti, and as fate would have it, he was also instrumental in the sale of the first Pershing in the U.S. to a close friend. When the Pershing owner asked Joyce if he would consider buying another boat from Wes Dickman, he replied, without hesitation, "yes."

A lot of people thought Wes Dickman was nuts back in 1995. Dickman has just invested a considerable chunk of money in creating Ferretti of America, based on two fairly radical assumptions.

One was that Americans were looking for a new kind of yacht an alternative to the high-performance convertible and the luxury motoryacht. Dickman believed Americans wanted (but didn't know they wanted) the very yacht Ferretti was building for the rest of the world, a sleek, Euro-styled flying bridge sportcruiser with performance and luxury. Considering the fact that such yachts comprised a minuscule portion of American yacht sales at the time, such a belief constituted nothing less than a leap of faith.

His second assumption concerned the way he wanted to bring these yachts into this country. Feeling most Europeans knew how to design, build, sell and service yachts for Europeans but not Americans, her created Ferretti of America, not as a dealer, but as a partnership between him and Ferretti of Italy. He felt this structure would give his company a credible commitment to the U.S. market and allow him to offer input in the way these yachts should be outfitted and even designed for the Americans.

Sixteen months later, Dickman is vindicated. Not only is his company a financial success, having sold "20-some yachts," but the style of yacht on which he gambled is today one of the fastest-growing segments of the yacht market. Indeed, other European builders, as well as U.S. builders, have adopted and adapted the style.

After 35 years in boatbuilding, Dickman is clearly enjoying both his success and vindication. Best of all, no one questions his sanity these days.

January 11, 2001

Dear Wes,

I remember the night you convinced me to join you on a trip to Italy to visit a boat yard that I had never heard of in a country famous for its friendly folks, great food and wonderful cars but boats? Please! I must admit that I was not convinced that America was ready for another Italian design. So many programs had hit the beach and been slaughtered by poor marketing campaigns and weak service programs that the American yachtsman's opinion of Italian yachts was low at best.

You promised me that if I made the trip I would be impressed with the people, the cars, the food and the boats. I was! Still, I was not certain you could convince America, however, you did, I am convinced that your success with Ferretti of America, has not only benefited Ferretti, it has elevated the American yachtsman's perception of Italian yachts as a whole.

I wish you the best with your new venture and I am certain that you will be introducing me to the "next trend in yachting" in the near future.

Kindest Regards

Jay Coyle