One stretch of sheltered water, a careful crew, and a deep belief that boating is supposed to feel uncomplicated.
The end of Brightwater Beach Road drops you into the upper bend of Knabbs Creek — a calm tributary of Stoney Creek, off the Patapsco River, in Pasadena's back-water side of Glen Burnie. Mild current, good holding, and trees on three sides keep things quiet at the dock.
Five minutes by water gets you to the mouth of Stoney Creek. Another ten and you're past the no-wake markers on open Chesapeake Bay water. It's the kind of run you can make for breakfast and be back before the dock gets busy.
The travel lift, the indoor work bay, and the floating concrete docks all sit on the same sheltered basin — designed around the simple goal of getting your boat in and out of the water without drama.
You'll never see a number on an invoice that wasn't on an estimate first. If something changes mid-job, we stop and call.
The same people will lift your boat next year. We don't subcontract haul outs, vinyl, or storage to anyone we don't know personally.
We use clean-water haul-wash containment, low-VOC paints, and we don't allow bottom sanding without proper capture. Knabbs Creek and the Bay are why we're here.
Phones, emails, VHF — a person, not a recording, every day from May to October. In the off-season we get back inside one business day.
USCG-licensed
The same person runs every haul, every block, and every launch. Decades of seat-time on this gantry — no rotation, no contractors, no "we'll see who's around."
In-house bay
Designs are mocked up on screen, weeded, and applied dust-free in the indoor bay. Names, hailing ports, registration numbers, and custom decals — all done on site.
Multi-fuel
Diesel, gas, outboard. Bottom paint, gelcoat, zinc work, winterization. We stay late when it's launch week and we never start work without a written estimate.
May – October
Local hands who'll be the first to grab your lines on a Saturday afternoon. Friendly, fast, and trained on every cleat configuration in the basin.
We sit on Knabbs Creek, just off Stoney Creek and the Patapsco River, with quick sheltered access to the Chesapeake Bay. By car: 20 minutes from Baltimore, 35 from Annapolis, 50 from D.C.
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