About us
It started with ten boats
Glen and Karen Smith founded RT 113 in 2003 with a piece of property on Route 113 and ten Triumph boats. Karen sold the first one. Two decades on we're the largest family-owned boat dealership on the Delmarva Peninsula — and we still only sell what we can service for the life of the boat.
Facts about RT 113
- Founded in 2003 by Glen and Karen Smith on Route 113 in Selbyville, Delaware, with ten Triumph boats.
- Family-owned and operated. Zak Smith, second generation, has run day-to-day operations since 2016.
- The largest family-owned boat dealership on the Delmarva Peninsula.
- Four brands, all premium: Cobia and Pathfinder since 2016, Pursuit since 2022, Cobalt since 2023.
- Every boat sold leaves on Yamaha power and is serviced in our own shop by five Yamaha-certified technicians, including a Yamaha Master Technician.
- Yamaha Marine Service Pro Elite dealer since 2023.
- Pursuit Flagship Dealer, 2025 and 2026. Pursuit Rookie Dealer of the Year, 2023.
- Cobia's #1 customer satisfaction (CSI) score for the brand, 2024 and 2026. #1 Cobia dealer in the North Region, 2021 and 2022.
- Own trucks and trailers for haul-out, delivery and winter storage, with ramp pickups from Lewes, Delaware to the Ocean City, Maryland commercial harbor.
- Mobile service van covering slips, lifts and driveways from the Delaware beaches through Ocean City, Maryland.
- 52 Cemetery Rd., Selbyville, DE 19975 · (302) 436-1737 · Mon–Fri 8:30–5, Sat 9–3.
How we got here
Twenty-three years, four brands, one family
We've never chased volume for its own sake. Every brand call we've made has come down to the same question: can we stand behind this boat and keep it running?
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2003
Ten boats and a piece of roadside property
Glen came to boats from an unlikely direction. He'd spent his career in software at CCC Information Services — a company that went public in 1996 — and retired in 2001. Retirement didn't take. Within two years he and Karen had bought a piece of property on Route 113 in Selbyville and ten Triumph boats to put on it.
Karen made the first sale. She put Glen out of the office for a few hours, and by the time he came back she'd sold a 17-foot Triumph — about $15,500 with the trailer.
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2003–2008
Five hundred Triumphs out of Selbyville
A small operation with a simple premise: know the product, take care of the customer, and let word of mouth do the rest. Over five years we sold more than 500 Triumph boats.
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2009
Triumph closes, and we rebuild from the brand up
We tried a few directions — including a stretch selling Sundance Skiffs — before finding our footing again in 2011.
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2014
Yamaha Master Technician
Zak earned Master Technician status — the top of Yamaha's certification ladder, and the reason we could commit to servicing what we sell rather than sending it out.
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2016
Cobia and Pathfinder, and the second generation takes over
Cobia has better than six decades of boat building behind the name, and is built by Maverick Boat Group in Florida. From 25 feet up the hulls and stringer systems are vacuum-infused — one shot, resin pulled evenly through the laminate, and a better strength-to-weight ratio than a hand-laid hull. Laid out to fish hard and still be a boat the family wants to spend Sunday on.
Pathfinder came aboard the same season, out of the same Florida shop — Maverick Boat Group's VARIS resin infusion, bay boats shallow enough for the back side of Assawoman and sensible enough to run the Ocean City Inlet when it lays down. Between the two lines we've been a top Northeast Maverick Boat Group dealer for years running, with multiple top-five national finishes — and every boat leaves here on Yamaha power, serviced in our own shop.
The same year, Zak Smith took over day-to-day operations — the second generation running a business the first one started thirteen years earlier.
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2017
Premium only, from here on
We decided we were only going to sell premium boats we could service and support for the long haul. That decision has driven every brand call we've made since.
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2021
Number one Cobia dealer in the North
Four years after taking the line on, the top of the region.
- #1 Cobia Dealer, North Region Cobia
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2022
Pursuit joins, and the service department gets certified
Pursuit is where fit and finish stops feeling like a boat and starts feeling like a yacht: the joinery, the systems and the hardware all sit a level above. It is the brand our repeat customers most often move up into, and the one that holds its money best on the way back out — Yamaha power throughout, which is exactly what our shop lives and breathes.
The same season, Yamaha's new Service PRO program started grading a dealer's service department by the training its technicians hold. We qualified in its first year — while Cobia had us at the top of the region again.
- #1 Cobia Dealer, North Region Cobia
- Top 5 Cobia Dealer Cobia
- Service PRO status Yamaha Marine
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2023
Rookie of the Year — and Cobalt joins
Our first full Pursuit year brought Rookie Dealer of the Year, and Cobalt brought the weekends that aren't fishing.
Built in Neodesha, Kansas, where Cobalt has been since the seventies — one factory, one way of doing it. They are the benchmark for fit and finish in bowriders and surf boats, and it shows in what they're worth years later. Upholstery, hardware and helm layout built to a standard rather than a price.
Cobalt was the piece the lineup was missing: the right answer if your weekends are sandbars, tubing and dinner by water rather than the canyon. Four brands now, all premium, each one chosen because it's a boat we're proud to put a family on and confident we can keep running for years.
- Rookie Dealer of the Year Pursuit
- Top 5 Cobia Dealer Cobia
- Service Pro Elite status Yamaha Marine
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2024
Four premium lines, and the scores to show it
The first year with the whole lineup settled — and the builders' own scorecards said it was working.
- #1 CSI score for the brand Cobia
- Top 5 Cobia Dealer Cobia
- Service Pro Elite status Yamaha Marine
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2025
A Flagship year
Pursuit's Flagship Dealer program recognizes a dealer on the whole relationship — sales, service and how the customer is looked after afterwards — and we made it in our third year with the brand. Both builders also gave us their marketing award in the same season, which for a shop that films its own walkthroughs on a phone is not a bad year's work.
- Flagship Dealer Pursuit
- Best Marketing Campaign Cobia
- Best Pursuit-Focused Marketing Campaign Pursuit
- Club Pursuit — Zak Smith, for passing $3 million in Pursuit sales Pursuit
- Service Pro Elite status Yamaha Marine
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2026
Flagship again, and five million through one salesman
A second Flagship year, the number one customer satisfaction score Cobia gives, and Joe Lertora into Club Elite — the tier above the one Zak reached the year before.
- Flagship Dealer Pursuit
- #1 CSI score for the brand Cobia
- Club Elite — Joe Lertora, for passing $5 million in Pursuit sales Pursuit
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Today
The largest family-owned dealership on Delmarva
More than fifteen staff and one of the highest-rated service reputations in the region. Somewhere along the way we outgrew the little shop on the highway and moved to a larger facility on Cemetery Road in Selbyville — room to store, winterize, rig and service at the volume four premium brands demand.
The name stayed. By then it was the name people knew, and the road is where this started.
In memory
Glen Smith
We lost Glen on 5 June 2026.
He started this business with ten boats and a piece of roadside property, and the way he ran it — know the product, take care of the customer, never sell something you can't stand behind — is still the way we run it.
Karen and Zak remain closely involved every day, and it remains what Glen built it to be: a family business. We're still family owned, still in Selbyville, and still working on getting better. We plan to be here a long time.
The people
Who you'll be dealing with
Small shop, no call center. These are the people who answer.
Twenty-three years in
What the customers say about all of it
“What a great family to do business with.”Steve C. · Google review
“Best buying experience we've ever had.”Tim S. · Google review
“Great selection, knowledgeable staff, great to work with.”Dan M. · Google review
Questions we get
Straight answers
Do you service boats you didn't sell?
Yes, and a good share of our work is exactly that. If it's got a Yamaha on the back you're in the right place, and we work on plenty of other brands besides.
How far will you travel?
Mobile service runs up and down the Delaware beaches and into Ocean City and the Maryland shore. For sales delivery and transport we go throughout Delaware, Maryland and Virginia — further for the right boat. Call and ask.
When should I book winterization?
September, and earlier if you're particular about the date. The calendar fills up and the first hard freeze always arrives sooner than people expect.
Do you take trades on boats you don't sell?
We take anything that floats. It doesn't need to be one of our four brands, and it doesn't need to be pretty.
Can you order a boat to spec?
Yes — hull color, power, electronics, canvas, the lot. Lead times move around by builder and season, so start the conversation earlier than feels necessary.
Come see us
52 Cemetery Rd., Selbyville, Delaware — right off Route 113, twenty minutes from the Indian River Inlet.