Marine electronics in Huntington, for a harbour where the slips are tight.
Huntington Harbour and Halesite hold the largest marina cluster on the North Shore — and some of the tightest docking on Long Island. We install and service marine electronics at your slip, from docking cameras and close-quarters radar to complete helm networks.
NMEA-certified, ABYC electrical standards, fully insured. When you call LIME you are calling the person who will be on your boat. No minimums, and your costs given up front.
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The Huntington problem
Beautiful harbour. Not much room to make a mistake in.
Huntington Harbour is busy, it narrows, and the fairways between slips at the bigger marinas do not leave much margin on a windy afternoon. Add a summer Saturday and you have a lot of expensive fibreglass moving slowly in close company.
So the electronics that earn their money here are not the glamorous ones. They are the ones that stop a $4,000 gelcoat bill: a stern camera you can actually see the swim platform on, radar that resolves close targets rather than smearing them, and a chartplotter that shows the harbour at a useful zoom without you fumbling for it while the boat is moving.
We fit a lot of cameras in this harbour. We fit a lot of first-time radar too, usually on owners who have finally had one fog-bound return up the harbour and decided never to do that again.
The Huntington job list
What we are usually called out for on this harbour.
Docking and engine-room cameras
Stern and side cameras feeding your existing display, cabled inside the boat and aimed on the water with you. The cheapest insurance in a tight harbour.
Full helm refits
Mixed-vintage helms rebuilt into one coherent system. New displays, a proper NMEA 2000 backbone, and every instrument actually sharing data instead of sitting on its own island.
Starlink and onboard WiFi
Mounted, wired direct to 12V DC off the house bank, with onboard WiFi. No inverter, no shore power dependency. Popular with the crowd who work from the boat on a Friday.
No mystery
How a job on your boat actually runs.
We are deliberately boring about process, because the complaints people have about marine trades are almost never about skill. They are about not knowing what is happening.
- You call or email. Tell us the boat, the harbour, and what is wrong or what you want. Photos of the helm and the back of the dash save a trip.
- We tell you the likely shape of it — what it needs, roughly what it runs, and whether it is a half-day or a two-day job. Time and materials, always.
- We come to the boat at your slip in Huntington or Halesite with the parts on the van.
- If we find something unexpected, you hear about it before we spend your money on it, not after.
- We hand it over working and walk you through it, rather than leaving you with a manual and good luck.
We supply the equipment we install. That is not us being difficult about margin — it is that we warranty the labor for 60 days and we cannot stand behind an install built on a part of unknown provenance from a marketplace seller.
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What it costs
Rates, in plain numbers.
All work is time and materials — we never promise a firm fixed price on a boat we have not opened up.
- $280 flat, first hour — includes travel up to 30 minutes each way and setup. Huntington is inside that from our base.
- $140/hr thereafter, in 15-minute increments
- $440 / $220 per hour for the two-man crew when a job needs four hands
- No 4-hour minimum, and no setup line item — the first hour is the setup
- Parts at cost plus markup, quoted before ordering
- 60-day labor warranty; equipment carries its manufacturer warranty
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
From boats like yours
What owners say after the handover.
Mike T. — Huntington
★★★★★
Depth finder stopped working mid-season. Called LIME and they diagnosed a bad transducer connection and fixed it in under an hour. Appreciated that they were straight with me about what it was and didn't try to sell me something I didn't need. Will be using them for everything going forward.
Rich S. — Contender 39 ST
★★★★★
Had another "installer" mess up my electronics. LIME came in, diagnosed the wiring nightmare, fixed it correctly, and upgraded the whole helm. These guys know what they're doing.
Tom B. — Mako 284 CC
★★★★★
LIME installed a full Simrad NSS setup with Halo radar and Active Target sonar. Perfect install, everything configured before they left the boat. These are real pros — not guys who install and leave you to figure it out.
Huntington questions
Straight answers, Huntington edition.
My boat is at Willis Marine — do you work inside the yards?Yes. We work at the marinas and yards around Huntington Harbour and Halesite, including Willis Marine Center, Coneys Marine, and the club docks. We check in with the yard office rather than just appearing on the dock, because most yards want to know who is on their property and it keeps us welcome there next season.
Yes. We work at the marinas and yards around Huntington Harbour and Halesite, including Willis Marine Center, Coneys Marine, and the club docks. We check in with the yard office rather than just appearing on the dock, because most yards want to know who is on their property and it keeps us welcome there next season.
Can you fit a camera so I can see the stern when I back into the slip?
Yes, and it is one of the more popular jobs in this harbour precisely because the slips are tight. A stern camera feeding the chartplotter costs a fraction of one gelcoat repair. We run the cable inside the boat properly, not zip-tied along a rail, and we set the view on the boat with you so it is aimed where you actually need it.
Do I have to be there while you work?
No. Plenty of Huntington owners give us dock access and go to work. We will call or text you if we find something that changes the plan or the cost, and we will not proceed past what we agreed without asking you first. If you would rather be there for the handover so we can walk you through the system, we will book a time that suits.
The harbour is packed in July. Is it better to do this work in the off-season?
Almost always, yes. A helm rebuild in October is a calmer job than the same rebuild in July, and you are not losing weekends to it. Winter is when we do the big panel and network work. If something has actually failed mid-season we will come out and fix it — but planned work belongs in the shoulder season.
What is an NMEA 2000 backbone and why does mine keep dropping GPS?
It is the shared network your instruments talk on — one trunk cable with drops off it, a terminator at each end, and power injected once. Intermittent GPS is very often a missing or doubled terminator, a drop cable that is too long, or power fed at the wrong point. It looks like a dying GPS and it is usually a $40 network fault. We test the backbone before recommending anyone buy a new unit.
Book your Huntington boat in.
Tell us the boat and the slip. We will tell you honestly whether it is a one-hour fix or a two-day job.