That was Brian Hawthornwaite from Hilton Head Island and Palm Springs, CA. He had sold his company, which was to Electronics what lettuce farming was to grocery stores.
He had built up a business making bazillions of capacitors for electronic circuits (a commodity if there ever was one) and then sold the company and made millions. He had a 60+ foot yacht behind his house on the only lagoon on Hilton Head Island with it's own lock to keep the water at an artificial "high tide" and deep enough to hold bigger boats. They spent their time between both houses and the yacht, but they sold the boat shortly after Alan acquired the lift, because Mrs. Hawthornwaite was tired of seeing America from the coasts. They bought a $1 million Rock Star Tour Bus RV and were going to spend a few years touring America (in between visits to Hilton head and Palm Springs). I lost track of him after that, but my neighbor in Beaufort was a developer and I remember him telling me he was knocking down a couple of $4 million homes on that lagoon and putting up a couple of $12 Million homes in their places.
Lotta, lotta money on Hilton Head Island.......