Frank Ursitti is ready to guide H&M Landing into the future

SAN DIEGO — Imagine being on your lunch hour and daydreaming of not returning to the office, instead quitting it all to start your own job doing the one thing you always wanted to do for the rest of your life. Two men operating water taxis in San Diego Bay during the summer of 1934 did just that, daydreaming of a lifetime on the water and fishing for big game. The daydream occurred when they decided to take the day off work to go fishing for marlin. Though they did return to work, the marlin fishing trip planted a collective seed in their heads to launch a sportfishing company. The daydream soon became a reality. When 1934 became a memory and the clock began ticking on 1935, four men founded H&M Landing. Its first vessel, Mascot II, took its maiden voyage April 6, 1935. By 1969, H&M Landing boasted itself as the world’s largest sportfishing fleet — a title the company continues to advertise to this day. It has been 80 years since H&M Landing launched its maiden voyage. A man who spent 31 of those 80 years at the helm of H&M Landing announced he would end his tenure as H&M Landing’s...