Located near St Charles, MO they are trying to bill my buddy for $34k on a rebuild project that was quoted $18k. Now additional work was done to the tune of $3-4k. The boat was picked up in December, promised by May 1, now July 1 and another $12k appears on the bill. Another case of a shop trying to screw a guy.

it would be interesting to hear some specifics and the other side of the story.

No doubt I just finish a project that started out with a twin engine rebuild at about 10K and finished with 150K boat rebuild.......... my customer is happy.

A number of years ago, I brought my 28 Cigarette there for service, 2 weeks later it was still sitting in their lot, not in a locked area, not chained down, not covered.... I took it home and found a different shop. Later I started to hear simular horror stories like the one posted here.

Stay away from them.

Imagine that

I have had good luck with them

Horrible to deal with and will screw you every chance they can. Never on time. I have quite a few horror story's about them. Two other friends of mine used them and had bad luck with them. They lie through their teeth. STAY AWAY!!!!!

Any facts or just accusations

they have been around along time and can do good work . Customer service is not there strong point and they are way expensive. but thats stl boat work one of the reasons my engines are in Michigan

They have lost me as a customer, I asked for a quote to convert my boat for tripple to staggered and Jeff told me he would get back to me by the end of the day with a quote.....and that was three weeks ago. I have called and left 10 messages and no calls back. After I hung up the phone the other day leaving my last message I thought to myself "If they don't have the time to return a call regarding a large job, is this the place I want working on my boat 2 1/2 months from boating season?"

I really would like to stay somewhat local, but if I have to travel I guess I will.