Chris DiMillo used to cruise around in a 25 Hunt Harrier that he bought used. He liked it so much that he commissioned a 26 Hunt Harrier in 2020. Nowadays, something magical happens every winter with that 26-footer, when this owner of DiMillo’s Yacht Sales leaves his Northeast business locations to hit the waters around Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
“I get more compliments than anybody in these bigger and more expensive boats,” DiMillo says, adding that he sees many reasons to love Hunt designs. “They’re beautiful. They’re timeless. They’re high quality. They stand up to the test of weather. I just think that people see them and want to know what they are, and they interpret immediately that the boats have a pedigree and a history.”
DiMillo enjoys those moments, and he’s had a successful career in the boating business. For some people, that would be enough, but he wanted something more to do. He’s 55 and coming off two years of stepping back a bit in the everyday operations of DiMillo’s Yacht Sales. “I had built a small boutique hotel in Portland, Maine,” he says. “I was doing some other projects outside the day-to-day work of boat sales.”…