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Every spring, the same renewal fire drill.
The slip and storage spreadsheet rebuilt again, contracts chased one owner at a time, nobody sure who signed and who paid. A slip that sits empty in June is revenue you can’t get back.
Common
Marine & boating.Your crew is great with a wrench. The paperwork is what’s killing the season.
Marinas, dealers, charters, and repair yards get one compressed season to make the year — and every week of it run on paper and memory is missed billings, late invoices, and slips that should have renewed but didn’t. I build systems that keep it straight, from spring splash to hurricane haul-out.
The proof, live
See what the work is doing.
When ongoing work calls for it, a private portal can show what ran, what it saved, and the math behind the number. When something breaks—things break—you can see it caught and fixed rather than receiving silence.
The dashboard here is sample data. Yours shows your numbers, counted conservatively, with the arithmetic visible.
Everything’s running normally.Sample data
7.8 hrsreclaimed this month — the math behind it, one click away
~89 hrs · ~$4,000 since we started, counted conservatively
Slip renewal & billing run
Work order → same-day invoice
Ops ↔ QuickBooks sync
Caught & fixed
Jul 1Flagged a slip renewal still unsigned two weeks before season.
Jun 9Caught a work order finished but never billed.
In progressHaul-out priority list wired to the storm watch
What eats the week
Sound familiar?
02
The work order’s on the bench, the parts are on a sticky note.
Commissioning and winterization compress hundreds of jobs into a few weeks, techs report status verbally, and the invoice goes out two weeks after the boat left. Billable hours quietly go missing.
Common
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The same slip booked twice on a Saturday morning.
Phone, email, walk-up, and radio all take reservations, and the calendar is whoever wrote it down. Sorting a double-booking out on the dock in July is how a good customer becomes a former one.
Common
04
Everything gets entered twice — and still doesn’t match.
Once in the marina or booking system, once in QuickBooks, and month-end becomes a hunt for which one is right. Slip, fuel, service, and retail billing pulled from four places by hand.
Common
How it works
What happens after you reach out.
- A free conversation. Phone or in person. You tell me what keeps getting in the way. If I am not the right fit, I will say so.
- I learn how the work really runs. For a small job, that may be one conversation. For larger work, a paid assessment maps where the time goes, and the document is yours to keep either way.
- A written proposal. It names the arrangement (a defined project, a savings share, or an ongoing partnership), the price, the scope, and what “finished” means. Nothing starts until you approve it.
- The work begins. I carry or build what we agreed, check it against the real operation, and stay long enough to see the effect.
You do not need to choose an arrangement before we talk. See the three ways to work together, and what each starts at, on the home page.
Let’s talk
What keeps getting in the way?
It may be a small job. It may be a recurring responsibility. It may eventually become a deeper operating partnership. We can start with a conversation and take on only what proves worthwhile.
By phone
Leave a message and I’ll return your call within a reasonable time — sometimes right away, sometimes a few hours, sometimes the next business day.
Based in
Myrtle Beach, SC
Serving the Lowcountry to Myrtle Beach and beyond — and clients across the country.