ON BOARD WITH David and Ann Sutherland
When you speak with David and Ann Sutherland, you get the feeling they are a perfect match. They finish each other’s sentences, laugh in unison and the story of how they built their Perennials fabrics company together to complement Sutherland furniture – now global references in upscale homes and superyachts – shows they supported each other all the way.
However, it took a while for David to convince his wife that trading a vacation home in New Mexico for a yacht would be a good idea. He told her it would take at least six months for them to find the right boat. Six months sounded like a reasonable amount of time, and things might happen in the meantime that would snuff out the idea, or so she thought. But instead, things progressed much faster than either of them had anticipated.
In spring 2019, David had lunch with a friend in Dallas to ask for his opinion about yacht ownership – a great idea on a personal level but not so much financially was his friend’s answer. However, his friend knew a yacht broker in Fort Lauderdale, called him, and before
