Ted grew up in beautiful Lake City Minnesota.  From a young age being on the water was an addiction that steered most of his decisions.  After high school he set out to become a fisheries biologist and attended school at the University of Minnesota Duluth mainly because he could stare at Lake Superior while struggling through homework!

In 2000 his boy hood friend Aaron Bang had enough of an especially unbearable Minnesota winter and decided to move to Fort Myers with Jon Market whom had started a yacht management and detailing business in Gulf Harbour Marina which was called Marine Concierge.  Seeing as Ted was always up for a good adventure Aaron asked him to ride with on the move to FL.  Upon arrival he discovered that Jon had a lot of work lined up so he agreed to lend him a hand for a couple of days and the rest is history.  Ted continued out the winter season in Fort Myers and returned to Lake City in the spring and started building up customers for detailing and management.

This business was originally named “Riverside Yacht Works” but on a lost bet to Aaron he changed the name to “Shiny McShine”!  Shiny McShine become a large detailing company in Lake City, Wabasha and Red Wing.  In the fall of the year Ted would contract with the Lake City Marina to work the haul out season with the Marina crew hauling, blocking and setting boats.  For the next couple of winters he would travel back to Fort Myers to help Aaron and Jon out in their busy season.  Aaron eventually took a position working with Brandon Flaherty in his company, Image Charters and Yacht Sales (ICYS).  Brandon had built a great business being the go to guy for bigger yachts in Fort Myers.

In 2006 Ted took a position in ICYS to establish a location in Minnesota for the summers and then attend all of the winter season boat shows in Florida.  This was a great learning experience for him which eventually lead him to sell Shiney McShine and take a full time position with ICYS in Fort Myers.  Ted, his wife Molly and their two daughters made the jump to Fort Myers in 2010.  In addition to yacht brokerage Ted was also involved in the charter program at ICYS.  He got his 100 ton masters captain license and would run charters in SW FL, the Keys, East Coast of FL and the Bahamas.

In 2014 Ted decided to start up his own brokerage business so that he could be more active in the Minnesota boat sales market in addition to what he was doing in Fort Myers.  He and Molly created “On The Dock Yacht Sales”.  The plan with this was to recruit guys that he knew in the industry who already had their own unique skill set and customer base and develop a team approach to boat sales which would allow for on the job learning while still doing proper and professional sales.  On The Dock grew to be a solid operation with 8 other brokers in addition to Ted.

An opportunity arose in late 2019 to combine his operation with Apollo Yachts.  After much thought and discussion, Ted and the crew opted to Join with Apollo as they offered up some strong advantages that allowed them to build upon their already very successful platform.