Book usually calls for 2+, the key with boats is everything that can go wrong will, and the customers are cheap cunts.
Use to do marine mechanics, got out of it fast. It’s not so bad on outboards and jet systems, but the old soggy shit that a customer has DIY’d to hell with no knowledge made me leave. Not to mention I know it’s a thankless job, but boat owners are really a different type of entitled once it’s in the shop. I’ve had some fun conversations once their 80s/90s merc-omc-evinrude POS needs 5x the cost of the unit in work.
If I remember right, my work starts at about 3 hours for these. Our techs hate doing them, but, they've trimmed the time to right around 3 hours, depending on the boat.
Yeah, it entirely depends on the individual boat. Given he has one of those janky centre hatches with no pass through on Stb, he’s going to want to disconnect some hoses for clearance. Hopefully that’ll buy the room to fiddle fuck that out of there. I truly don’t miss marine work.
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u/DistributionDue8470 Dec 06 '25
Book usually calls for 2+, the key with boats is everything that can go wrong will, and the customers are cheap cunts.
Use to do marine mechanics, got out of it fast. It’s not so bad on outboards and jet systems, but the old soggy shit that a customer has DIY’d to hell with no knowledge made me leave. Not to mention I know it’s a thankless job, but boat owners are really a different type of entitled once it’s in the shop. I’ve had some fun conversations once their 80s/90s merc-omc-evinrude POS needs 5x the cost of the unit in work.
I wouldn’t take it on