Marine Max wants $3,000, plus materials, to replace the hearliner in my main cabin (not the forward berth).

Does that sound reasonable?

Only if they have Jessica Simpson do it in the nude....

How long to do it? If the shop rate was $125 an hour, then that would be 3 days (8 hours a day).

It's a pretty big job,pretty complicated,but I imagine there are some smaller firms in your area that would jump at the chance for less than 3K labor.I would ask around,this is not the type of job a big outfit like MarineMax really would want to do IMHO.

You're right: they don't want to do it, and have contacted 2 outside vendors. The first said 3 grand. Haven't heard from the second one yet.

Thanks for all of the input.

Sure didn'y look to me like a big job: just remove and recover 3 panels. Unfortunately the "removal" requires disassembling much of the cabinetry.

Yep, they estimated 3 days @ $85/hr.