Boat Lift Repair & Installation

A boat lift is the one piece of waterfront equipment that can ruin your day in seconds - a frayed cable or a seized motor doesn’t fail quietly when there’s a boat in the cradle. We service all the common lifts - cradle, four-post elevator, PWC and jet-ski, and kayak - regardless of brand: replacing cables before they let go, swapping worn bunks and pulleys, rebuilding or replacing motors and gearboxes, and fixing the switches and remotes that always quit at the worst time.

Installing a new lift is about getting two numbers right: your boat’s fully loaded weight and your water depth at low tide. We measure both, then spec a lift with real capacity to spare and the right corrosion package - aluminum or hot-dip galvanized - for how exposed your slip is.

The quiet killer on a Sarasota lift is salt and barnacle buildup on cables and moving parts, which is exactly why a lift that worked fine in spring can groan and stall by fall. A short annual service - flushing and inspecting cables, greasing the right points, checking bunk alignment and the motor - costs a fraction of a dropped boat or an emergency call in the middle of storm season, and it is the single best way to make an expensive piece of equipment last.