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A boat on a trailer at the edge of a calm northern Michigan shoreline in early season light

Traverse City, Michigan  ·  Northern Michigan lakes

Your boat has a season. So does the service line.

Launch in the spring, run it all summer, pull it in the fall, store it through the hard water. Boats, motors, service and storage — all on one calendar, all at one dock.

Spring · April–May

The service line opens before the water does.

The first warm week is when everything gets called in at once. If you call us in April, you're ahead of the rush instead of standing in it.

Outboard motors, lower units, batteries, fuel systems, trailer bearings — we go through the boat and the motor before it goes back on the water. If something's been sitting since October, this is the time to say so.

  1. 01

    Call the dock

    Tell us the boat, the motor, and how it finished last season.

  2. 02

    Drop it off

    On the trailer or already in the water — either way, we'll get it into the shop.

  3. 03

    Back on the water

    We'll call when it's ready to launch, and you pick the first weekend.

An outboard motor mounted on a service stand inside a boat shop
Spring commissioning

Summer · June–August

Summer is the boat list.

Four kinds of boats, one dock. Pontoons for the long afternoon, fishing boats for the early one, wake boats for the loud one — and the outboards that push all of them.

  • 01

    Pontoon boats

    Room for everybody and the cooler. The slow, social end of the lake.

  • 02

    Fishing boats

    Set up for the morning, easy to launch, easy to tow home after.

  • 03

    Wakeboard boats

    Towers, ballast and a wake you can actually ride behind.

  • 04

    Outboard motors

    New power for the boat you already own and like.

A pontoon boat under way on a northern Michigan lake in high summer
In season, on the water

Not sure which one fits the water you're on? Call and describe the lake — that's usually enough.

A boat being pulled out of the water on its trailer at a ramp in autumn
October pull-out

Fall · September–October

Pull it in October. We'll have it back on the water when the ice goes.

Winterization and storage happen in one appointment. Bring the boat in on the trailer, and we take it from there — the motor, the systems, the cover, the spot on the rack.

Every week you wait past the first hard frost, the line gets longer. Book the pull-out while the leaves are still up and we'll hold the date.

Winter · November–March

Hard water. The boats are inside.

Storage is the quiet half of the year. It starts the day the boat comes out of the water and ends when the ice goes — and it runs on the same appointment as the winterization.

Tell us what you want done while it sits, and we'll work the season backwards from your launch date.

Which boat and motor

The hull, the power, and the trailer if it's staying with us too.

How long it stays

From the fall pull-out to the spring launch, or a shorter stretch.

What it needs while it sits

Service, a new motor, or the thing you've been putting off since July.

When you want it back

Give us a date and we'll have it ready ahead of it.

Boats stored indoors under covers during the winter months
Off-season storage

Booking · Any month

Put it on the calendar.

Tell us the boat and the season you're aiming at. We'll call you back with a straight answer and a date.

Request a quote

We read every one of these the same day.

Phone

Call the dock.

Fastest way to get a straight answer — about a boat, a motor, a service slot or a spot on the rack for the winter.

Traverse City  ·  Northern Michigan