Marine electronics in Freeport, set up by people who understand you are going fishing.
Woodcleft Canal holds the densest marina and charter fleet on Long Island. We install and repair fishing electronics on the Nautical Mile and across Freeport — sounders, transducers, radar for the inlet, and helms that survive a real season.
NMEA-certified installers, ABYC wiring, fully insured. $280 first hour, $140/hr after, no 4-hour minimum. You call, you get the installer.
Freeport is not a yacht town
Down here, the electronics have a job to do.
The Nautical Mile is working water. Charter boats, party boats, and a few hundred private center consoles that go out to catch something, not to be looked at. Nobody on Woodcleft Canal is buying a sounder because it looks good on the dash.
That changes what matters. A transducer in the right place beats a more expensive sounder in the wrong one, every single time. A radar that lets you come home through Jones Inlet in fog is worth more than another inch of screen. And wiring that survives salt, vibration and a wet cockpit for ten years is worth more than either.
We do the unglamorous end of this properly: tinned wire, heat-shrink connections, cables supported so they are not sawing through a bulkhead, and grounds that are actually grounded. It is the part nobody photographs and the part that decides whether you are calling someone back in March.
The thing most shops get wrong
Transducer placement is the whole ballgame.
More Freeport service calls come down to transducer placement than any other single cause. The symptom is always the same: reads fine at the dock, useless above 15 knots.
The reason is that a transducer needs clean, undisturbed water flowing across its face. Mount it behind a strake, too close to a through-hull, in the prop wash, or too high on the transom, and above displacement speed it is reading aerated water. No amount of gain adjustment fixes physics.
- Transom mounts positioned in genuinely clean flow, and set at the right depth and angle for your hull
- Through-hull and in-hull installs where the boat and the fishing justify it
- Chirp and live-imaging transducers set up and tuned, not just bolted on
- Existing transducers relocated — often the cheapest fix on the boat
We tune the unit on the water with you where the job calls for it, so you know what the screen should look like over sand, over structure, and when it is actually marking fish.
Our Work
Marine electronics work we actually do.
The same work, done at your slip in Freeport. Every photo is a real LIME job — no stock, no borrowed images.
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Getting home
Jones Inlet does not care how good your day was.
Everybody who runs out of Freeport has an inlet story. Fog that came in while you were on the fish, a following sea on the way back, or coming through after dark alongside somebody who is not showing lights.
Electronics do not make the inlet safe. What they do is remove the guessing. Radar shows you the boat that is not on AIS and not lit. A chartplotter with current charts shows you where the channel actually is this year, which is not always where it was. A VHF that knows your position turns a DSC distress call into a location instead of a description.
If you fish offshore out of Freeport, we will also talk to you about redundancy — a second means of navigation and a second means of communication — because the failure that matters is the one that happens 30 miles out.
Working boats
Charter and commercial work on the canal.
We know downtime costs you
A charter boat that cannot sail is losing money every tide. We will tell you straight whether something can be made safe for the weekend and properly repaired after, or whether it has to be right now.
Built for paying passengers
Second displays, backup navigation, and communications that work when the primary does not. Carrying passengers changes the standard, and the wiring should reflect that.
Scheduled around your season
Big work in the winter book, quick response in season. We would rather rebuild your helm in January than take your July.
Money, plainly
What it runs.
Time and materials, always — no firm fixed prices, because we are not going to pretend we know what is behind your dash before we look.
- $280 first hour flat, one man, travel up to 30 minutes each way and setup included
- $140/hr after, billed in 15-minute steps
- Two-man crew $440 / $220 per hour for bigger installs
- No 4-hour minimum and no setup charge — a one-hour job is a one-hour bill
- Parts at cost plus markup, told to you before we order
- 60-day labor warranty; manufacturer warranty on the equipment
ABYC Electrical Standards
Empire Wind NETP Approved Vendor
Fully Insured
$280 First Hour · $140/hr After
No Minimums
60-Day Labor Warranty
You Call, You Get The Installer
Freeport and beyond
What fishermen say about the work.
Michael B.
★★★★★
Great service. Fixed all issues promptly. Would recommend to anyone needing boat servicing.
Vanessa O.
★★★★★
David is the ultimate professional. He installed a new radar and AIS on our boat in up state New York. He knows all the systems and is able to troubleshoot and provide solutions. No job is too big or too small. Highly recommend him!
Peter Z.
★★★★★
The owner, Dave, suggested that I bring my kayak down to his shop so that he could diagnose the problem. He meticulously labeled the interior wiring and quickly determined the source of the malfunction. He was courteous, knowledgeable and provided professional service.
Freeport questions
What Freeport boat owners ask us.
My sounder marks fish at the dock but goes blank on plane. Why?That is almost always transducer placement, not the sounder. In clean water at rest, anything works. On plane, a transducer sitting in turbulence off a strake, a through-hull fitting or the outdrive is reading bubbles instead of bottom. Moving it a few inches into clean flow fixes what a new $1,500 unit would not. We diagnose that before selling you anything.
That is almost always transducer placement, not the sounder. In clean water at rest, anything works. On plane, a transducer sitting in turbulence off a strake, a through-hull fitting or the outdrive is reading bubbles instead of bottom. Moving it a few inches into clean flow fixes what a new $1,500 unit would not. We diagnose that before selling you anything.
Do you work on the charter and party boats on Woodcleft Canal?
Yes. Commercial and six-pack charter work is a real part of what we do in Freeport, and we understand that a boat that does not sail does not earn. We will tell you honestly whether something can be patched to get you through a weekend and properly fixed after, or whether it needs doing right now.
What is the single best electronics upgrade for running Jones Inlet?
Radar, and it is not close. Jones Inlet in fog or after dark with a following sea is where people get hurt, and a chartplotter alone tells you where you are, not what is around you. Radar tells you about the boat that is not showing lights and the buoy that has moved. AIS on top of that is the second-best money you will spend.
Can you fit outriggers or a tower while you are doing the electronics?
No — we are electronics, not rigging or fabrication. What we do is the wiring that goes with them: spreader lights, tower controls, second station displays, and the cable runs done so they do not chafe. For the tower or riggers themselves we will point you at a fabricator who does that properly.
I fish out of Freeport most weekends. Is winter the right time for a big job?
Yes, and it is the single most useful piece of scheduling advice we give. A full helm rebuild between November and March costs you nothing in fishing days. The same job in June costs you weekends in peak season. We work year-round and the winter book is where the big Freeport jobs live.
Do you supply the electronics or can I buy my own online?
We supply what we install. If we did not, we would be warrantying our labor on a unit of unknown history bought from a marketplace seller — and when it fails, everybody argues about whose fault it is. We keep it simple: we supply it, we install it, we stand behind it for 60 days on labor and the manufacturer covers the box.
Get it right before the next trip.
Tell us the boat and what it is doing. If it is a transducer in the wrong spot, we will tell you that instead of selling you a sounder.