Evanston boat owners don't need to take their boat anywhere to get electrical work done. BoatWired is a fully mobile marine electrical company: we come to the boat, wherever it's kept, and work to ABYC standards.
Wherever your boat is kept
Evanston's lakefront has limited room for keeping boats in the water, so many Evanston owners keep their boats in Wilmette Harbor, in Chicago's north-side harbors like Montrose and Belmont, on a trailer in the driveway, or at a storage yard. We work at all of them. For trailered boats, that often means we do the work right at your home.
Trailer boats and smaller boats
Many Evanston boats are trailered runabouts, center consoles and fishing boats. They have their own common electrical problems:
- Trailer and boat lights: navigation lights, courtesy lights and connections that corrode when they're dunked at the launch every trip.
- Batteries that die between trips: small parasitic drains, or batteries that never get fully charged. A proper battery switch and an onboard charger fix most of these.
- Adding electronics: a new plotter, fishfinder or trolling motor, wired with its own protected circuit instead of tapped into whatever is nearby.
- Old wiring on older boats: brittle insulation, mystery splices and missing fuses on boats that have had several owners.
Bigger boats, too
If your boat lives in a slip, we handle the full range: shore power problems, battery and charging systems, generators and complete rewires.
Request a quote and tell us about your boat and where it's kept.