About Tom
Tom Leiper has been an entrepreneur, inventor and pioneering sales master with over forty years experience primarily in the medical imaging and informatics industry.
Even before driving age he apprenticed building and blueprinting high performance race engines and drive trains, foundational knowledge and experience that served him well years later as a pilot and boat owner.
Awarded eight patents, including a patent for the Sherlock® Marine Surveyor Percussion Sounding Hammer, and having been involved in many interesting technical fields over the years there is little he does not understand about how things work.
More importantly, he knows what to do when things do not work, whether those be difficulties with a vessel, a deal, or those involved in the deal.
In short, Tom is a problem solver, and as one whose success has been marked by exquisitely satisfying the needs of his customers, Tom has brought his experience and innovative skill set to this avocation, helping boaters become better boaters with better boats, with the same dedication as he has with every other endeavor, the most common feedback among his many clients and associates being that he is "Unlike any other boat broker they have ever known."
Expertise
Sought after and referred to not only by individuals but folks in the industry such as marina and service company owners, surveyors, importers, exporters and yes, lawyers, once even acting as a court appointed broker, Tom has special expertise with vessels in unusual or difficult circumstances, the subjects of divorce, estate, seizure, stuck high and dry, inoperable, owned by widows, you name it, if there is a way, it will be found.
With the ability to assess in depth the state of the vessel, structural, mechanical, shipboard systems, and understand the circumstances, requirements and limitations of the seller, Tom knows how to precisely define the types of buyers that are required to liberate these vessels and how to find and qualify them.
Territory
Based in Fairfield County, CT, Tom at any given time attends to as many as one hundred or more vessel listings from Old Saybrook, CT to Newburgh, NY on both sides of Long Island Sound and the Hudson River, Tom's office is where the boats are, showing, photographing, attending surveys and trials, he knows boats because he has personally known and shown hundreds and hundreds of boats of all sizes, types and brands. By the way, he also knows boaters because he has personally met and worked with hundreds and hundreds of them... of all sizes, types and brands.
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Services
Tom services HNWI private clients as well as a hundred or more conventional sellers and thousands of buyers from around the world. If you are a seller looking for the right buyer, or a buyer looking for the right boat, you're dealing with the right broker.
Tom will take the hassle out of buying and selling by arranging surveys and inspections, at all times the interests of buyer and seller alike protected, escrow, title searches, Coast Guard extracts, lien releases, bank payoffs, taxes, various state laws, export requirements, shipping and other services through partner relationships.
Quite simply, there is no challenge that has not been or cannot be tackled by Tom Leiper, period.