Welcome to The ShipShape Co. llc website. Proudly serving the 13mm-21mm's of Lake of the Ozarks.
Please text, call or email to talk about your boats (573) 434-6864 or Dave@IsYourBoatClean.com
- Intro - My name is Dave and I have been running this lil' boat cleaning business since 2004. From 2004-2020 my business had multiples service vans and many employees that served all corners of the lake (we even traveled for a few jobs), but covid changed many things and my business did a 180* change too. There has been a huge upside with this change in that I can provide a far better service for the families I work for than in years past. - What I do - In March I will pressure wash/Clean your dock (concrete surface, rubber edging, plastic cushions, lights, fans, outlets and switch boxes, fridge, freezer, kitchen/bbq, furniture, rugs, etc) to get rid of the dirt that has accumulated on everything over the winter. While I am there the first time I will remove your de-icers from the water and clean the scum off the units, ropes and cords. In April I will do a full-on ShipShape Cleaning to your boats, pwc's, paddleboards, pedal boats, kayaks, etc which entails pressure washing or scrubbing everything everywhere with soapy sponges and lots of elbowgrease so that the item is clean and as easy as possible to keep clean going forward. In May I will start a routine of every-other-week visits to your dock to freshen everything up so that it is ready-to-go whenever you arrive to go boating *if there is a period during the summer when you will not be using your boats I will abbreviate what I do on those visits but I still like to keep the routine (some boats I will even cover if they aren't used for a few weeks). In September I am happy to amend the every-other-week routine since lots of families don't come to the lake as often but I do like to visit every dock at least once in September and once in October to freshen things up as needed so nothing is funky. Once your boat has been winterized I am happy to come back to make sure the cover is on securely and that everything is dry, areas are opened up for ventilation, anything that might freeze is removed and the boat is ready for its hibernation for a few months. Please text, call or email to talk about your boats (573) 434-6864 or Dave@IsYourBoatClean.com - About me - In 1981 my family visited a classmates family for a weekend at the lake at the 13mm and in 1982 my dad bought a place at the 7mm and I was hooked at six years old. In the late 80’s my dad and I started going to the lake before the rest of my family for “father son boat cleaning bonding b***s*** weekend” sometime in May. In 1995 I graduated highschool and started a lawn service that grew to ~225 lawns in St Louis’ west county. In 2002 I sold the lawn business and helped the new owners for one year but always had the dream of living at The Lake so in 2004 I moved to the 11mm and started washing boats for our next-door neighbor who had a home based business that reconditioned and flipped 45’-55’ SeaRay cruisers. He sold a dozen or so boats a year which kept me scrambling to keep up with his boats and the new customer I ended up with almost every time he sold a boat. The struggle I had every spring was finding and training workers who cared about what they were doing. In 2017 I upped my base pay rate to $20/hour with hopes of attracting better applicants, which did help a lot. In the spring of 2020 no one replied to my help wanted ads, literally no one. Fortunately I had a few hard workers from years past who helped me survive that crazy covid year, thank you Andy, Kyle and Sam! After 2020 I knew something had to change so at my girlfriends suggestion I followed a 15year old dream and bought an old Florida dive boat that was heavily used. I also pivoted back to Dave washing boats alone; no workers, no advertising (other than this website), no vans, no shop space, … no headaches! Just me and my passion for boats (thanks Dad!), my hard work ethic and knowledge of what product cleans each mess that occurs on a boat, and a rock solid 1996 SeaCat sl5 with its third set of engines and refit everything else. In the past I dreaded some of the hills that I used to carry my gear up and down, now half of the boats I wash are within 10' of my all of my gear and there are houses that I have only seen the backs of, which makes me very happy! Please contact me anytime to talk about your boats (573) 434-6864 or Dave@IsYourBoatClean.com |
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Please text, call or email to talk about your boats (573) 434-6864 or Dave@IsYourBoatClean.com
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