A yard built around a lift, not a driveway
We started as a two-slip repair dock and added the travel lift once it was clear that hauling boats ourselves, rather than waiting on someone else's schedule, was the only way to run a season on our own terms. The hardstand grew slip by slip after that, and it still fills the same way every year: spring launch week and autumn haul week both book solid weeks in advance.
Everyone wants to launch the same fortnight in spring and haul out the same fortnight in autumn, and our whole year is shaped by that compression. We plan the yard around it rather than pretending it away - which is why we tell customers plainly that the shoulder weeks get their boat back on time, and the first warm week of May does not.
Below the waterline is where most of what we do actually lives - paint, anodes, running gear, through-hulls - work nobody sees until it fails at the worst possible time. Our whole operation exists to make sure it does not.
