Very familiar with it, had a reunion with some of my NAIA teammates in Texas in June and the little brother of the TE who played next to me (Small Catholic College) was just named President of Ave Maria.
Probably my fault, when Tom Monaghan bought his first yacht in 1984, he wanted to keep it on the east coast at Turnberry Isle - he was new money and impressed with Pam Beach. His idea was partly to entertain corporate guests that included incentives for his store manages - if a manager pulled $25K in a week, they won a week's cruise on 'Tigress'. Then we entertained his family and his execs.
I explained that it was a little more lowkey over on the west coast, close to a number of Spring Training sites and that Turnberry probably wouldn't want 20-something year-old store managers running around. I pestered him to let me show him, Boca Grande, South Seas, Long Boat Key Club. He told me he heard Naples had more millionaires than anywhere per capita, so I got him at the Naples Yacht Club for New Years Eve '84 - The Tigers had just won the World Series in his first year of ownership, so it was no problem getting in. He liked it and I got to spend about half the time closer to home even though I worked the east coast a lot - Pier 66, Bahia Mar, Bayside, Marriott, etc. Then Great Lakes in the summer where corporate HQ was, and half of that in Detroit for baseball season. So I kind of had to force him over to the west coast. I'm not sure had he hired an east coast captain if Ave Maria ever would have happened - at least on this coast, anyway.
