Engine & System Repair

There's a kind of marine repair shop that throws parts at a problem until something works and bills you for all of it. That's not us. When a boat comes in for a hard-to-pin-down fault — runs fine cold but stumbles hot, won't hold trim, drops voltage at idle — we start with the data. Scan tools, fuel-pressure gauges, oscilloscopes when warranted, and the printed factory specs for your engine model open on the bench.

We isolate the failure before we order parts. That single discipline saves customers more money than any coupon or seasonal special could. It also means when we tell you what's wrong, we can show you the test result that proved it.

Engine: cylinder, head, block work; valve service; gasket and seal replacement; complete rebuilds on outboards, inboards, sterndrives, and select PWC powerheads.

Fuel system: tanks, lines, pumps, injectors, carbs (we still rebuild them), and ethanol-related drivability issues. Electrical: charging, starting, ignition, instrumentation, NMEA networks, and the increasingly common bus faults on modern boats.

Cooling: raw-water and closed-loop systems, heat exchangers, manifolds and risers — the silent killer on older inboards. Drive: bellows, gimbals, U-joints on sterndrives; lower units and gearcases on outboards; transmission and shaft alignment on inboards.

Steering and trim: hydraulic and mechanical, including SeaStar and Optimus systems. Hull and transom: structural transom repair, stringer work, and hardware re-bedding. If it's on the boat and it broke, we can usually quote it.

Marine parts availability is what it is — sometimes a $12 sensor takes three weeks, sometimes a complete powerhead is on our dock in four days. We're set up with the major OEM and aftermarket distributors and we'll quote both options when both make sense.

What we won't do is sit on a job pretending parts are coming when they aren't. If a backorder turns into a problem, we tell you, and we help you decide: wait, source independently, or pivot to a serviceable used part with a warranty. Most jobs we quote leave the shop on the date we promised. The ones that don't, you know about ahead of time, not after.

We work on more than the new fleet. If you've got a 1990s Mercruiser that nobody else will touch, an old Force or Johnson that's been in the family for thirty years, or a Tigé or Malibu wake boat from before the surf-system era — bring it. We have the manuals, the test gear, and in many cases the small-batch parts network you need.

Vintage marine work isn't a side gig for us; it's a meaningful slice of our shop calendar. We'll tell you up front when something isn't worth saving, and we'll tell you up front when it absolutely is. Either way, you'll get a real answer from someone who's worked on the actual motor in question.

Every repair gets a documented run-up before it leaves the shop. For drivetrain work, that means time on the trailer or in the lake under load — not just an idle test in the bay. We send photos of the work that mattered and the parts we removed. If something's off in the first thirty days of normal use, you call us and we make it right. That's how a small shop earns its reputation, and we plan to keep ours.