Elevated

Our story

A lifetime around the water.
A career built in the boating industry.

He would rather show you the boat on the water than talk you through a brochure.

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  1. Water
  2. Florida
  3. Wakeboarding
  4. Arizona
  5. Colorado
  6. One-bay prop shop
  7. Action Water Sports
  8. 15 years
  9. 2025
  10. Elevated Marine

01 / Water

Water

A love for the water came first.

Boating, watersports, and time around the water were part of Nick’s life from a young age. Family boats. River days. Summers that made the water feel like home.

That early time on the water is simply where the love began. Everything that followed — wakeboarding, the industry, the dealership — started there.

02 / Florida

Florida

When wakeboarding became more than a hobby.

As Nick got more serious about wakeboarding, he spent substantial time in Florida. He became friends with professional riders and spent time around the people shaping modern wakeboarding — athletes, industry personalities, boat manufacturers, events, and competitions.

He started seeing the marine business from beyond a shop floor. Boats, athletes, manufacturers, events, dealers, and customers all worked together as one culture.

That period turned a passion for riding into a career in the industry.

Boats weren’t just products. They were the center of an entire culture.

03 / Colorado

Arizona → Colorado

From Arizona to Colorado — with about a week’s notice.

Nick’s marine career brought him to Arizona. Then an opportunity came to move to Colorado and help start a completely new boat dealership.

He moved with roughly one week’s notice.

One week.

Move to Colorado. Help start a new dealership.

04 / One Bay

Colorado

One bay. A prop shop. A new market.

There was no established dealership waiting. The Colorado operation began from a single service bay, shared with a prop shop called Props Plus.

Action Water Sports Colorado started there and was built from the ground up.

About as grassroots as starting a boat dealership gets.

Now

Elevated Marine · Arvada

Now

05 / Action

Action Water Sports

15 years

15 years of learning the boat business from the inside.

Nick spent approximately 15 years at Action Water Sports. The point isn’t tenure. It’s that he worked nearly every side of a marine dealership.

Those years created an unusually broad view of what makes a dealership work — and where dealerships often fail customers.

The education wasn’t one job. It was the entire dealership.
  1. Sales01
  2. Service02
  3. Inventory03
  4. Boat shows04
  5. Events05
  6. Marketing06
  7. Manufacturer relationships07
  8. Customer relationships08
  9. Trade-ins09
  10. Financing10
  11. Operations11
  12. Delivery12
  13. Ownership support13

06 / Community

The industry

The marine industry became a community.

Over the years, Nick built relationships with athletes, manufacturers, reps, dealers, industry people, customers, and watersports professionals — a thread that started in Florida and continued through the dealership years.

The marine industry is relatively small and relationship-driven. That kind of perspective, and those relationships, aren’t something you learn from a textbook.

07 / The Lesson

The lesson

There had to be a better way.

Buying a premium boat should not be where the relationship ends. Customers should not struggle to get service after the sale.

A dealership should know the customer, their boat, their lake, how they use it, and their ownership history. It should help them actually use the boat.

The experience should continue through delivery, service, pickup and drop-off, upgrades, events, clinics, trade-ins, and the next boat.

  • Delivery
  • Service
  • Pickup / drop-off
  • Upgrades
  • Events
  • Clinics
  • Trade-ins
  • The next boat

08 / Elevated

2025

The next chapter.

This wasn’t about changing the name on the building.

In 2025, the Colorado operation became Elevated Marine.

It was the opportunity to take decades of industry experience and redesign the dealership around the ownership experience.

Action Water Sports Colorado→Elevated Marine

09 / Today

Today

Boating. Elevated.

Today Elevated Marine is the result of everything learned before it. Nautique. Chris-Craft. Bennington. Revel. Premium boat sales. Service. Concierge pickup and drop-off. Mobile service. Demos. Events. Owner experiences. Technology. Customer relationships.

We are not just trying to sell the boat. We are trying to make boating easier and better from the first demo through the next boat.

The boat is only the beginning.

The dealership

The dealership

On the water

On the water

Owners

Owners

Come hang out with us

10 / The Crew

The people behind Elevated

Built by people who’d rather be on the water.

Different backgrounds. Different talents. Same mentality. Elevated isn’t built around job descriptions. It’s built around people who solve problems, care about the work, and understand why getting somebody back on the water matters.

The Beginning

Founder / Owner

Nick

A lifetime around the water. A career in the marine industry.

Wakeboarding. Florida. Arizona. Colorado. Fifteen years learning the dealership from the inside. Then Elevated.

His story is the page you just read. The short version: a lifetime around the water, years in the wake industry, and a career built inside a marine dealership.

He’s still the person asking how to make the ownership experience better.

How can we make this experience better?

  • Ownership
  • The water
  • The long game

The Experience

Demo & Delivery

Cole

We’ll bring the experience to you.

Marinas, demo days, and deliveries — local lakes and across the country.

Cole is Nick’s youngest brother. He came into the dealership and made a specialty of the part Elevated cares about most: getting people onto the water.

If the boat has to prove itself, he’d rather it happen at your lake.

  • Demos
  • Deliveries
  • Your lake

General Manager

General Manager

Anthony

The person responsible for the dealership.

Anthony Velez is General Manager at Elevated Marine.

He is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the dealership, so sales, service, and the customer experience stay connected.

  • Schedules
  • The floor
  • Getting it done

The Connection

Service Advisor

Michel

By day, he keeps the service department moving. After hours, he DJs.

Came from Tommy’s, a large Malibu/Axis operation. Pro shop. Parts. Service. Now one of the primary connections between customers and the technicians working on their boats.

That mix of shop experience is why the service-advisor seat fits. He understands more than one side of a dealership, and customers can tell.

Outside Elevated, Michel is a DJ.

  • Customers
  • The drive
  • The shop

Lead Technician / Fabrication

Lead Technician / Fabrication

Scott

Good luck finding something he can’t fix.

Lead technician and fabrication. Broken, weird, custom, difficult — or already given up on by someone else.

Scott doesn’t just know how to replace parts. He understands how things work. Diagnose. Repair. Modify. Fabricate. Build. Solve.

Most importantly, he actually likes helping customers.

Figure it out. Make it right. Get them back on the water.

  • Fabrication
  • Diagnostics
  • The weird jobs

Sales & Finance

Director of Sales & Finance

Sisco

The person who puts the boat and the numbers together.

Nick Sisco is Director of Sales & Finance at Elevated Marine.

He works with buyers on the boat, the financing, and the path from the first conversation to delivery.

  • Sales
  • Finance
  • Delivery

The Next Generation

Technician

Reuben

What do we need to get done?

One of the newest additions to the technical team, and already a major asset.

He’s learning quickly. He likes side projects. He isn’t afraid of unusual jobs. When a project runs late or another technician needs another set of hands, he’s happy to stay and help.

Working alongside people like Scott and Sisco is a pretty good place to learn.

  • Learning fast
  • Side projects
  • Showing up

Lead Detailer

Lead Detailer

Roman

If you think it’s clean, give him another hour.

Came in with about a year of detailing experience. What happened next had less to do with time and more to do with how seriously he takes the craft.

Training. New techniques. Practice. Pride in every job. The work has become exceptional because he treats the last 2% like it matters — because when someone spends $200,000, $300,000, or $400,000+ on a boat, it does.

He doesn’t want it clean. He wants you to stop and look at it.

  • Finish
  • The last 2%
  • Pride

Service Advisor

Service Advisor

Alijah

The person who keeps you posted while the boat is in the shop.

Alijah Sarno is a Service Advisor at Elevated Marine.

He is one of the people you talk to about scheduling, updates, and what the boat needs next.

  • Scheduling
  • Updates
  • The shop

Experience Specialist

Experience Specialist

Cassidy

A demo with Cassidy has a way of turning into an afternoon on the lake.

Cassidy Bachtel is an Experience Specialist at Elevated Marine.

She would rather show you the boat on the water than talk you through a brochure.

  • Demos
  • The lake
  • Sales

Different backgrounds.
Same obsession.

  • Nick Stiller · Founder / Owner
  • Cole Stiller · Demo & Delivery
  • Anthony Velez · General Manager
  • Michel Brauser · Service Advisor
  • Alijah Sarno · Service Advisor
  • Scott Lewis · Lead Technician / Fabrication
  • Nick Sisco · Director of Sales & Finance
  • Reuben Olivas · Technician
  • Roman · Lead Detailer
  • Cassidy Bachtel · Experience Specialist
  • Brad Leto · Parts and Warranty Specialist
  • Lucas Sparks · Pro Shop / Sales Assistant

11 / The Lab

A boat dealership is a weird place to build the future.
We like it that way.

Elevated has become something of a laboratory. Technicians. Fabrication. Diagnostics. Software. Cameras. Networks. Marketing. Service. We keep asking why dealerships do it this way — and whether we could make it easier, faster, or better for the person who just wants to use their boat.

That mentality affects everything.

Service systems

Designed around getting boats back on the water.

Elevated Experience

Taking the dealership to the lake.

After all these years in the boat business, one thing hasn’t changed:

The reason any of us are here
is to get on the water.

Welcome to Elevated Marine.

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