Marine electronics in Southampton, fitted at your slip on either side of the fork.
Southampton is two different boating towns wearing one name. There is the ocean side — Shinnecock Bay, the inlet, and everything that runs out through it — and there is the Peconic side, with North Sea, Noyack and Sag Harbor around the corner. The electronics that make sense depend entirely on which water you keep the boat in.
We install and repair chartplotters, radar, VHF, AIS, sounders, NMEA 2000 networks, cameras and full helm rebuilds, at the boat. NMEA-certified MEI, ABYC electrical standards, $280 flat for the first hour and $140/hr after, no 4-hour minimum, and the person who quotes the job is the person who does it.
The Southampton situation
Marine electronics in Southampton means two very different waters.
Most towns on Long Island have one body of water and one kind of boating. Southampton has two, and they barely resemble each other. On the south side you have Shinnecock Bay — shallow, warm, full of sandbars that move, and connected to the Atlantic by a single inlet. On the north side you have the Peconic — deeper, cooler, quieter water running past North Sea and Noyack and around to Sag Harbor.
A boat kept on Shinnecock Bay lives a bay-boat life: thin water, a sounder that has to read accurately at speed, a depth alarm that actually gets used, and a VHF that works when the fog rolls in over the barrier beach. A boat kept on the Peconic side lives a cruising life: longer runs, more time at anchor, more house-power demand, and a helm that has to be comfortable for hours rather than minutes.
Then there is the Shinnecock Canal, which joins the two and means plenty of Southampton boats do both. That is the boat we see most often out here — one that fishes the bay in the morning and runs up to the Peconic in the afternoon, and needs electronics that are honest in both.
What we install most in Southampton
The marine electronics Southampton boats actually need.
Not the biggest package we can sell you — the one that matches where you keep the boat and what you do with it.
Chartplotters & MFDs
Garmin, Simrad, Raymarine and B&G, sized to the dash you actually have rather than the one in the brochure. Charts loaded, waypoints carried over from the old unit where we can, and the screen angled so you can read it with the sun behind you.
Radar
Domes and open arrays mounted, cabled and tuned. Worth it the moment you run the inlet in anything less than clear air. We will tell you honestly if your boating does not justify one.
VHF & AIS
Fixed-mount radios wired to your GPS so a DSC distress call sends your position instead of asking you to describe it. AIS puts you on other boats' screens as a named target — useful in the canal and around the inlet.
Sounders & transducers
Transducer placement is most of the job on a shallow bay. Mounted where it reads at speed rather than where it was easiest to drill, with depth alarms set to warn you while you still have room to turn.
NMEA 2000 networks
Proper backbones with correct terminators, tinned wire, supported runs and labelled drops. Most "my electronics are failing" calls out here are a network fault, not a failed display.
Helm rebuilds & dash panels
Custom StarBoard panels cut and fitted so a new suite looks like it came from the builder. This is the off-season work — measured in the fall, finished before the boat goes back in.
The ocean side
Everything that goes offshore from here goes through one inlet.
Shinnecock Inlet is the only ocean inlet on this stretch of the south shore — there is nothing else between Fire Island Inlet to the west and Montauk Point to the east. That single fact shapes how we spec a boat that fishes offshore out of Southampton.
It means your margin for error on the way home is smaller than it looks on a calm July morning. It means fog, a building sea against an outgoing tide, and a shoal that is not where the old chart says it is are all problems you solve at the same place, in the same twenty minutes, at the end of a long day. And it means the equipment that matters is the equipment that still works when you are tired.
- Radar you can actually read — mounted high enough and tuned properly, not just bolted on
- A second means of navigation — because a single MFD is a single point of failure on a boat that goes offshore
- A VHF that transmits — a corroded antenna connection sounds fine to you and reaches nobody
- Current charts and updated firmware — the shoals here move, and an out-of-date plotter is confidently wrong
- Power that holds up — a house bank and charging system that will run the suite all day without sagging
None of that is exotic. It is ordinary equipment installed properly, which is the whole job.
Working with us
How a Southampton job actually runs.
No mystery, no surprises on the invoice.
1. You call or email
You get the installer on the phone, not a call centre. Tell us the boat, the marina and the slip, and what is wrong or what you want fitted.
2. You send photos
A couple of shots of the helm, the back of the dash and any model numbers. This is how the job gets done in one trip instead of two — which matters out east.
3. We give you the costs up front
Rates, an honest estimate of the hours, and the equipment cost. Everything is time and materials — a ballpark of scale, never a padded fixed quote.
4. We come to the boat
At your slip or mooring in Southampton, North Sea, Noyack or Sag Harbor. We check in at the marina office first. Big jobs get booked into the off-season.
5. We wire it to standard
ABYC electrical practice, tinned marine wire, correct fusing, supported runs and labelled connections, so the next person can follow what we did.
6. We hand it over working
Systems commissioned, networked and tested with you standing there, not left for you to figure out. 60-day labor warranty; equipment carries the manufacturer's warranty.
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The north side of town
North Sea, Noyack and the run round to Sag Harbor.
Go through the Shinnecock Canal and Southampton becomes a completely different place to keep a boat. Great Peconic Bay opens out to the north, North Sea and its harbour sit just west of town, Noyack Bay curls round toward North Haven, and Sag Harbor — deep water, real dockage, and the most boat traffic on this side of the fork — is a short run from any of it.
The work changes with the water. There are more sailboats, more moorings and more boats that spend nights away from a dock, which pushes the conversation toward house power, charging and autopilots rather than fish-finding. There are more big cruisers and yachts, which means networked helms, cameras for docking, and Starlink for people who are actually working from the boat.
We cover the whole of it from the same truck — Southampton Village, Water Mill and Hampton Bays on the ocean side, North Sea, Noyack, Sag Harbor and North Haven on the Peconic side. One phone number, the same rates, and no argument about which side of the canal you are on.
What we get called for
The calls that come in from out here.
Season after season, these are the ones.
What it costs
Plain rates, and no minimum.
- $280 flat for the first hour — one installer, including travel up to 30 minutes each way and setup
- $140/hr after that, billed in 15-minute steps
- Two-man crew: $440 first hour, then $220/hr where the job genuinely needs two sets of hands
- Extra travel past 30 minutes each way is $40 per half hour per man, timed door to door — Southampton is far enough east that this can apply, and we say so before we book
- No 4-hour minimum. No separate setup line. No trip fee or fuel surcharge. The first-hour rate is the travel and setup recovery
- Multi-day jobs restart the first-hour rate each day
- Shop, bench and admin work $125/hr; CAD and panel design $140/hr — never the field rate
- Parts and equipment at cost plus markup. We supply everything we install — no customer-supplied gear
- 60-day labor warranty. Equipment carries the manufacturer’s warranty
Everything is time and materials. Any number we give you before the job is a ballpark estimate of scale, not a fixed price — you pay for the work that actually gets done, never a padded fixed quote. We do not do free site visits; send photos and model numbers instead and we will tell you what we think before anyone drives anywhere.
A small job is worth calling about now. A one-to-two-hour fix is $280–$420, and that is the whole bill.
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What customers say
Real reviews from the Google profile.
Word for word, from people who paid for the work.
Frank S.
★★★★★
I had my marine electronics installed by Dave and did a great job. I especially appreciated that the final price matched the estimate, no hidden costs. Had him come back a year later for assistance in updating software. Overall a great experience.
Michael B.
★★★★★
Great service. Fixed all issues promptly. Would recommend to anyone needing boat servicing.
AJ S.
★★★★★
I was having a problem with my electronics on my boat. I had tried getting an appointment with several other companies, but could not get anyone to come down and take a look. When I contacted LIME I got Dave the owner on the phone and he was very knowledgeable. He was able to come out the same day I called to get an appointment and was able to diagnose the problem right away. I would absolutely use them again.
Questions we get from Southampton
Marine electronics in Southampton — frequently asked.
Do you come to Southampton, or do I have to bring the boat to you?We come to you. Almost all of our work is done at the boat — in a slip on Shinnecock Bay, at a dock on the Peconic side, in North Sea or Noyack, or over in Sag Harbor. Tell us the marina and the slip number when you book and we check in at the office rather than turning up unannounced on the dock. Bench work is the exception: if a unit has to come off the boat to be repaired properly, we say so before we take it.
We come to you. Almost all of our work is done at the boat — in a slip on Shinnecock Bay, at a dock on the Peconic side, in North Sea or Noyack, or over in Sag Harbor. Tell us the marina and the slip number when you book and we check in at the office rather than turning up unannounced on the dock. Bench work is the exception: if a unit has to come off the boat to be repaired properly, we say so before we take it.
What does a service call in Southampton actually cost?
The first hour is $280 flat for one installer. That covers travel of up to 30 minutes each way, setup, and the first hour of work. After that it is $140/hr, billed in 15-minute steps. There is no 4-hour minimum and no separate setup line. Southampton is far enough east that some addresses run past the 30-minute travel allowance — beyond it, extra travel is $40 per half hour per man, timed door to door, and we tell you that before we book rather than after. Everything is time and materials: you pay for the work actually done.
Can you get the job done in one trip?
Usually, if we know what we are walking into. Email us model numbers and a couple of photos of the helm and the back of the dash before we come out, and we can bring the right gear the first time. That matters more out here than it does in Nassau — a second trip east is a second first-hour charge. We do not do free site visits, so the photos are how we keep your bill down.
Does LIME supply the equipment, or can I buy my own?
We supply everything we install. That is not an upsell — it is the only way we can stand behind the work, because we know what shipped in the box, what firmware it is on, and that the parts match. Equipment carries the manufacturer's warranty and our labor carries a 60-day warranty. We do not install customer-supplied gear.
Is radar worth it if I mostly fish the bay?
If you never leave Shinnecock Bay, probably not, and we will tell you that. Where radar earns its money here is the run out through Shinnecock Inlet and back — fog sets in fast on that stretch of ocean, and coming home in it without radar is a different experience than going out in the sun. If your boating is bay fishing and sandbar afternoons, a good sounder, a properly wired VHF and AIS are better value for the same money.
My electronics worked last season and now half of them are dead. What is that?
Nine times out of ten it is not the displays — it is the network or the power feeding them. NMEA 2000 backbones lose a terminator, pick up a corroded T-connector, or get chained off one badly crimped drop that fails once it gets damp. A boat that sits on a mooring or a bulkhead in salt air all summer finds those faults for you. We trace the backbone and the DC side rather than guessing at a box, because replacing a working display fixes nothing.
What kind of boats do you work on around here?
All of them. Southampton runs from 20-foot center consoles on Shinnecock Bay to sportfishers heading offshore out of the inlet, sailboats on Peconic moorings, and bigger cruisers on the Sag Harbor and North Haven side. The rate is the same regardless — the difference is how many hours the job takes, not who owns the boat.
How far ahead do I need to book?
In season, sooner than you would like. Summer weeks out east fill up, and a Friday-afternoon call about a dead chartplotter is a hard one to answer. Off-season is when we get the big work done — full helm rebuilds, panel fabrication, network overhauls — and it is the right time to book anything that will take more than a day.
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Let’s get your electronics sorted.
Call and you get the installer — the same person who will be standing at your helm. Send a couple of photos and the model numbers and we will tell you what we think before anyone drives east.