Port Charlotte boat dealer to acquire Longboat Key marina

A boat dealer headquartered in Port Charlotte has entered into an agreement to acquire a marina on Longboat Key. Closing for the acquisition is “imminent,” Ingman Marine says in a Sept. 24 statement about its plan to buy Cannons Marina. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Cannons Marina, a family-owned business on Gulf of Mexico Drive since 1955, serves as a boat and yacht brokerage and preowned powerboat dealer plus offers boat maintenance and a boat rental program. It has represented the Grady-White fiberglass boat brand for nearly five decades, according to a statement.

“Our hallmark foundation is that we are a highly customer-centric service brand,” Cannons Marina co-owner Lucile Capo-Miller says in a phone interview with the Longboat Observer, sister paper of the Business Observer. “We are known to be approachable and here, and our relationships are more than just a transaction. Our customers are more like family and best friends.”