Marine electronics in Sag Harbor, finished before the season starts.
Sag Harbor runs on a calendar. The boat has to be right by the time the season opens, and the yards are full by April. We plan and fit integrated electronics for East End yachts in the months when there is still time to do it properly.
NMEA-certified, ABYC electrical standards, fully insured. Time and materials with your costs given up front, and a 60-day warranty on our labor.
The East End reality
Out here, the season is the deadline.
Sag Harbor is not a year-round boating town. There is a window, everybody wants their boat in it, and every yard and trade on the South Fork is trying to serve the same few weeks. Which means the quality of your season is largely decided in the previous November.
A full electronics refit on a larger boat is not a weekend. There is planning, there are parts with real lead times, there is the install itself, and there should be a sea trial to prove the system before you are relying on it with guests aboard. Compressed into April, that becomes a rush job. Spread across the winter it becomes a properly engineered one.
We work the East End year-round and we would far rather book your job in January than turn you away in May.
Bigger boats, more moving parts
Systems that behave like one system.
On a smaller boat, electronics are a collection of devices. Past a certain size they have to become a single system, or the helm turns into a set of screens that disagree with each other.
That means one properly engineered NMEA 2000 backbone rather than several improvised ones, displays that mirror each other between helm and flybridge, radar and AIS overlaid on the chart instead of living on separate screens, and a VHF that knows the vessel's position so a DSC call carries a location.
- Multi-display helms with consistent data across every station
- Radar and AIS integrated to the chart, not bolted alongside it
- Redundant navigation — a second means of knowing where you are
- Entertainment across multiple zones, wired so it does not interfere with the nav bus
- Sea trial and handover, so you leave knowing how it behaves
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Off Shelter Island and beyond
Internet that holds up past the harbour mouth.
A great deal of East End boating now involves someone aboard who has to stay reachable. Cell coverage across Shelter Island Sound and out toward Block Island is patchy enough that "it usually works" is not a plan.
Starlink has changed the answer to this, and we fit a lot of it. The install that matters is not the dish — it is the mounting so it survives a season of vibration and salt, and the power so it runs direct off 12V DC rather than depending on an inverter or shore power. We size the draw against your house bank and tell you what it does to overnight consumption before we fit it, not after you find out at anchor.
For boats that stay inshore we will sometimes tell you an LTE router is the smarter buy. We would rather give you the right answer than the bigger invoice.
Being straight about limits
What we do not do, and why we say so up front.
On larger yachts the scope question matters, so we put our limits in writing rather than discovering them halfway through.
- Vessel AC panels and shore power systems — we work on DC. We are not licensed electricians and we do not cross that line.
- Autopilot drive units — rams, clutches and hydraulics go to a drive specialist. We will network the autopilot to your electronics.
- Joinery and finished woodwork removal — where a job needs cabinetry or a mirror-finish panel taken out, that is the builder or a joiner, with access by others.
- Rigging, towers and outriggers — we do the wiring that serves them, not the structure.
None of this is us being unhelpful. It is that a boat of this value deserves each trade doing the part it is actually qualified for, and a written exclusion beats an awkward conversation in June.
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Larger boats, higher standard
What owners of bigger boats tell us.
Rich F. — Viking 62 Sportfish
★★★★★
Viking 62 electronics overhaul — LIME fabricated a complete new helm panel and integrated every system from scratch. These guys handle big boats and they know what they're doing. NMEA certified, ABYC wiring throughout. Best money I've spent on this boat.
Steve K. — Pursuit 325 DC
★★★★★
Full helm rebuild — new StarBoard panel, dual Garmin 9" displays, radar, AIS, and autopilot. Cleanest installation I've ever seen on a boat. LIME is in a different league.
Mike R. — Grady-White 306
★★★★★
Had LIME install Starlink Standard on my Grady-White 306 with a custom stainless arch mount. They wired it direct to 12V so it runs off the batteries — no inverter, no shore power needed. The whole job was clean and professional. Signal is rock solid from the dock to 80 miles out.
Sag Harbor questions
East End questions, answered plainly.
Can you get to Sag Harbor, or is the East End too far?We come out to the East End regularly. Sag Harbor is beyond the 30 minutes of travel included in the first hour, so extra travel is billed at $40 per half hour per man door to door — and we tell you that number before you book, not after. For a full day of work it is a small part of the bill, which is why East End jobs are best batched into one visit rather than three.
We come out to the East End regularly. Sag Harbor is beyond the 30 minutes of travel included in the first hour, so extra travel is billed at $40 per half hour per man door to door — and we tell you that number before you book, not after. For a full day of work it is a small part of the bill, which is why East End jobs are best batched into one visit rather than three.
We want the boat finished before Memorial Day. When should we book?
Winter. The single most common East End mistake is calling in April for work that needed six weeks. Between November and March we can do a complete integrated system properly, order what is needed without rushing, and sea trial it in a calm week. In May everyone is calling at once and the parts lead times are the same for everybody.
Do you work on larger yachts, or only small craft?
We do both, and the larger boats are a real part of our East End work. Bigger vessels mean more integration — multiple displays, redundant navigation, satellite communications, entertainment across several zones — and that is exactly the kind of job that benefits from being planned in the off-season.
Can you install satellite internet that works out to Block Island and beyond?
Yes. Starlink is the usual answer now, mounted properly and wired direct to 12V DC off the house bank so it does not depend on an inverter or shore power. We size the draw against your bank and tell you honestly what it will do to your overnight consumption before we fit it.
We have a professional captain — will you coordinate with them?
Happily, and it usually makes the job better. A captain who knows the boat can tell us in ten minutes what would take us a morning to find. We are equally comfortable dealing directly with an owner who wants to be walked through the system afterwards.
Do you do the ship's AC panel work as well?
No. We work on DC systems and electronics, and we deliberately stay off the vessel AC panel — we are not licensed electricians and that is a liability and licensing line we do not cross. For AC work we refer you to a specialist, and we put the exclusion in writing so there is no ambiguity about scope.
Book the winter, enjoy the summer.
Tell us the boat and what you want it to do. We will scope it honestly, including the parts we will refer out.