Paul started working for Mel in 1983 at the original store at 5 Atlantic Ave. In 1989 Mel purchased another store on the North Shore and Paul ran that location from 1989 to 1992, he then came back to Freeport with a proposition to buy the North Shore location. In 1998 Paul bought the North Shore store and ran it under Tidewater Marine Supply.

In 2021 at the height of Covid, Mel decided he wanted to finally retire and basically called me up and asked if I had interest in buying the operation. I soon after sold my North Shore store and bought FCM Marine Supply, so basically my career made a 40 year big full circle back to where I started in 1993.

Our current location has 6300 ft.² of retail space and 8000 ft.² of warehouse space so we can specialize in having a tremendous inventory of parts on hand and ready to go, so when a customer walks in it is very likely that the customer is going to walk out with exactly what they need. If by chance we don’t have the item on hand, we are set up to get deliveries five-six days a week, for example, if we order a part on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. It will be here Monday morning at 8 o’clock.