Marine electronics in Merrick — we come to the dock behind your house.
Merrick is canal country. Most of the boats we work on here never see a marina — they live on a lift or a dock in the backyard, and the owner has no interest in trailering anywhere to get a chartplotter fitted.
So we come to you. NMEA-certified marine electronics installation and repair at your private dock, with no haul-out, no yard queue, and no 4-hour minimum.
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The Merrick way of owning a boat
No haul. No yard. No waiting list.
The whole appeal of a canal house in Merrick is that the boat is right there. Which makes it genuinely irritating when getting a sounder replaced means putting it on a trailer, driving it somewhere, and waiting behind everyone else in a yard queue in May.
We are a mobile outfit. The van comes to your dock off Merrick Bay with the parts on board, the work happens where the boat already is, and you get it back the same day for most jobs. No haul-out fee, no yard storage, no losing the boat for two weeks in the best month of the year.
It also means the person who quotes the job is the person who does it. There is no service writer in the middle translating what you said into a work order, and no surprise at the end because somebody misheard.
The usual Merrick list
What canal boats around here actually need.
Chartplotter and sounder upgrades
Replacing a tired unit with a current Garmin, Simrad or Raymarine, wired properly and set up with cartography that reflects this year's bottom, not 2016's.
Stereo and speakers that survive
Marine-rated head units, speakers and amps installed with tinned wire and sealed connections, because a car stereo in a wet cockpit lasts one season.
Shallow-water transducers
Set up and aimed for thin bay water, with depth alarms actually configured — so the boat tells you before the bottom does.
Great South Bay reality
Knowing where the water actually is.
Getting out of the Merrick canals and across to Jones Inlet means crossing water that is shallow, and where the bottom moves. Local knowledge is worth a great deal, but local knowledge from four years ago is worth considerably less than people think.
Two things fix that. Current cartography on a plotter that is actually receiving updates, and a sounder with the depth alarm set to a number that gives you time to react rather than confirming what just happened. We configure both, and we make sure you know how to change the alarm yourself when you are running skinnier than usual.
It is not exciting work. It is the difference between a good day and a lower unit.
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What it costs
Simple, and told to you first.
- $280 for the first hour, flat — travel to Merrick and setup included
- $140/hr after, in 15-minute steps
- No 4-hour minimum. A 90-minute job bills as 90 minutes
- Parts at cost plus markup, with the number given before we order
- 60-day labor warranty, manufacturer warranty on equipment
Everything is time and materials — dollar figures we give you beforehand are honest estimates of scale, not fixed prices. If we can see the job will run over what we said, you hear it from us while there is still a decision to make.
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 once the work is done.
Mike T. — Grady-White 307
★★★★★
LIME did a full Garmin helm build on my 307. NMEA 2000 network, Panoptix sonar, Halo radar, and autopilot. Flawless installation. Everything talks to everything. 5 stars without question.
Dave F. — Regulator 31
★★★★★
Best in the business on Long Island. NMEA certified, professional, and the cleanest wiring I've ever seen. Worth every penny.
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.
Merrick questions
Questions from the canals.
My boat is on a lift behind my house. Can you still work on it?Yes — that is the normal Merrick job for us. We work on boats on lifts and at private docks all through the canals. If the boat is up on the lift we can work on it there for most jobs; anything needing the transducer wet, we will plan around dropping it. Tell us when you book and we will bring the right plan.
Yes — that is the normal Merrick job for us. We work on boats on lifts and at private docks all through the canals. If the boat is up on the lift we can work on it there for most jobs; anything needing the transducer wet, we will plan around dropping it. Tell us when you book and we will bring the right plan.
Do I need to be home?
Only if the boat or the yard is locked. Plenty of Merrick owners leave a gate code and come home to a finished job. We will text you if anything changes the plan or the price before we act on it.
What is the shallow-water issue everyone mentions in the bay?
The South Shore bays are thin water with a shifting bottom, and paper knowledge of it goes stale. A current chartplotter with updated cartography plus a sounder you trust is the difference between knowing you have two feet under you and hoping. We also set sounder alarms properly, which most people never get round to.
Can you do a stereo at the same time as the electronics?
Yes, and it is a very common Merrick combination — plotter or sounder upgrade plus speakers and an amp while the dash is already open. Doing both in one visit saves you a first-hour charge, which is a real saving, so we would rather you asked for everything at once.
How fast can you get here?
Merrick is close to base and well inside the 30-minute travel that is already included in the first hour. In season we are usually booking a few days to a week out; in winter it is quicker. A genuine dead-boat problem gets moved up.
We will come to the dock.
Tell us the boat and what you want done. Most Merrick jobs are finished in a single visit.