January 15, 2025

Rich Lazzara 1973 - 2025

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Rich Lazzara, who passed away the fourteen January at the age of 51.  Born May eighteen 1973 Rich Lazzara was a third generation boat builder, who spent more over twenty years in the boat building industry. He grew up working in his grandfather’s Gulfstar, learning first hand knowledge of yacht engineering, processes, and construction. Ultimately the Lazzara family will sell its stakes in Gulfstar in 1989 and create Lazzara in 1990, as Rich will be given the responsibility for developing the sales team and international dealer network that eventually grew his family’s Lazzara Yacht business to a one hundred million US$ yacht building company in 2008. His knowledge about the most modern sales tools, such as social networking, websites, direct mail, email, and mobile, has allowed him to utilize them effectively and precisely to meet the needs of clients around the world. Ultimately Rich ended his yachting career as yacht broker with HMY Yacht which he joined in August 2015, were his yacht-building pedigree, combined with leading-edge marketing technology, have afforded him a high level of sales success. From lamination to listings, there isn’t a facet of the yachting industry Rich was not involved and understood.  Rich is survived by his parents, Richard and Debbie Lazzara, his stepmother Tracey Lazzara, his wife Melissa Lazzara, his children Haley, Avery, Zariah, Santana, Damarcus, Trey, Quinn Lazzara, Lorin and Logan Hutchinson and his brothers, Joey, Tony Lazzara and Billy McKnight.

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