Marine electronics in Massapequa, for thin water and long weekends.
The canals through Biltmore Shores and Harbour Green feed straight into Massapequa Cove and the Great South Bay — beautiful water, and shallower than it looks. We fit the electronics that keep a family boat off the bottom and sounding good.
NMEA-certified installers working at your dock, your lift or your driveway. $280 first hour, $140/hr after, billed in 15-minute steps. No 4-hour minimum, ever.
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The Great South Bay problem
The bay is shallow, and the bottom does not stay put.
Every Massapequa boater learns the channels. The trouble is that the bay shifts — a spot that carried four feet three seasons ago may not now, and the knowledge in your head is dated the moment the weather rearranges a shoal.
The fix is not heroic. It is a sounder you actually trust, with the depth alarm set to a number that gives you time to react, plus a plotter carrying current cartography rather than whatever shipped on it in 2018. Between them you get a warning while you still have choices, instead of a noise that confirms what already happened.
We set the alarm with you, and we show you how to change it — because the margin you want running out the channel at speed is not the margin you want idling into your own dock.
What Massapequa boats get fitted
Built around how the boat is really used.
Sounders and depth alarms
Transducers placed in clean flow so they read at speed, not just at the dock, with alarms configured for bay water rather than left on a factory default.
Plotters with current charts
Garmin, Simrad and Raymarine units fitted and set up with cartography that reflects this year — plus the waypoints for your channel entered before we leave.
Cameras and cockpit extras
Stern cameras for backing into a tight canal slip, cockpit lighting and USB power where people actually sit.
Ready to talk? Or keep reading below.
The upgrade everyone actually enjoys
Audio that survives more than one season.
Boat audio is the upgrade people are happiest about and the one most often done badly. The failure is almost always the same: automotive gear, untinned wire, and connections that were never sealed. It sounds excellent in June and it is corroded by the following spring.
We fit marine-rated head units, speakers and amplifiers, wired with tinned copper, sealed connections and fusing that matches the load. We also size the amplifier against your actual house bank, because the fastest way to ruin a day on the hook is to discover the stereo has flattened the battery you needed to start the engine.
- Marine head units with phone integration that works with wet hands
- Cockpit and cabin speakers fitted to existing or newly cut locations, agreed with you first
- Amplifiers sized and fused properly, mounted somewhere dry
- Battery monitoring so you can see what the system is drawing
What it costs
Time and materials, told to you first.
- $280 flat for the first hour — includes travel up to 30 minutes each way and setup
- $140/hr after that, in 15-minute increments
- No 4-hour minimum and no separate setup charge
- Parts at cost plus markup, quoted before we order anything
- 60-day labor warranty; the equipment carries its manufacturer warranty
Ask for everything in one visit if you can — a plotter and a stereo done together saves you a whole first-hour charge compared with two separate trips.
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
South Shore owners
What people say about the finish.
Dan K. — Scout 245 XSF
★★★★★
Starlink Mini on my 24ft center console — LIME mounted it flush on the T-top and ran the cable through the hardtop conduit so there's no exposed wire anywhere. Fits perfectly, barely notice it's there. Used it on a trip to Montauk with perfect streaming the whole way.
Mike T. — Tidewater 28 CC
★★★★★
Had a cluttered center console dash that made no sense. LIME rebuilt the whole panel — new cutouts for a Garmin GPSMAP 9" and a second display, organized switch panel, and ran all new wiring. Two days at my slip in Freeport. Clean and professional start to finish.
Rich C. — Babylon
★★★★★
They rebuilt my entire helm — new Simrad displays, radar, AIS, and a custom dash panel. Took two days and came out exactly the way I wanted. Everything talks to everything, the wiring is immaculate, and they walked me through the whole system before leaving. Worth every dollar.
Massapequa questions
What we get asked around the Cove.
We use the boat mostly for the family — what is actually worth upgrading?For a family boat on the Great South Bay the honest order is: a sounder you trust so you stop touching bottom, then audio, then a plotter with current charts. Radar is far down the list unless you are running the inlet after dark. We would rather tell you that than sell you a radar you will use twice.
For a family boat on the Great South Bay the honest order is: a sounder you trust so you stop touching bottom, then audio, then a plotter with current charts. Radar is far down the list unless you are running the inlet after dark. We would rather tell you that than sell you a radar you will use twice.
Can you add speakers without cutting up the boat?
Usually yes. Most boats have existing locations or panels that take a standard cutout, and where they do not we will talk to you about where a new one can go before anything is cut. We use marine-rated speakers and tinned wiring — a car audio setup in an open cockpit does not survive a Long Island summer.
How shallow is too shallow in Massapequa Cove?
Shallower than most people think, and it moves. The practical answer is not a number, it is having a depth alarm set with enough margin that you get a warning while you still have options. We set that up and show you how to change it, because the right margin running the channel is not the right margin idling in.
Do you handle the trailer boats too, or only boats in the water?
Both. A trailer boat in the driveway is often the easiest job we do all week — good light, good access, no tide. If your boat is on the trailer at the house, say so when you book and we will plan for it.
What if I want the work done while we are away for the week?
That is fine and fairly common. We need access to the boat and a way to reach you if something changes the plan or the cost. We will not go beyond what was agreed without asking, and we will send you photos of the finished work.
Sorted before the next long weekend.
Tell us the boat and how you use it. We will tell you what is worth doing and what is not.