HOOK, LINE AND SINKER

Boating has always been in his blood. Mike Cantor, who grew up in New Jersey and spent many summers cruising offshore, still remembers the conversations he had as a boy with his grandfather, who had a passion for motoryachts, having owned an Elco, a Trumpy and a Chris-Craft built in the 1950s.

Cantor’s father loved the water, too. He had his son on a racing sailboat when he was just a baby. Then, as the family real estate development/construction business grew, so did the number of boats at the Cantors’ dock. The father-son duo cruised, fished and explored together, enjoying a bond with the sea and an affinity for building new boats.