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Atlantic Pro details, paints and restores boats at 3311 US-41 in Palmetto, between Bradenton and Sarasota. The work ranges from a wash and wax to stripping and repainting a bottom, repairing fiberglass and rebuilding upholstery. Haul-out is on site, so a boat does not have to move yards between jobs.
Detailing is the cosmetic end: washing, compounding and waxing the hull and topsides, cleaning non-skid, and bringing back colour that has gone chalky in Florida sun. Restoration goes further, into fiberglass repair, upholstery and canvas, and refinishing.
The difference matters when you ask for a price. A detail is measured in hours on a surface. A restoration is measured in what has to be rebuilt first.
Atlantic Pro does not publish a price for this work, and any yard that quotes one before seeing the boat is guessing. Four things move the number: the length of the boat, the condition of the gelcoat, whether the bottom needs stripping before paint, and whether anything underneath needs repair before a finish goes on it.
Call 941-292-1112 and ask for a look at the boat. That is the only way anyone gets a real figure.
Bottom paint is the antifouling coating below the waterline that stops growth taking hold. How often it needs redoing depends on how the boat is kept. A boat that lives in the water year round needs it far more often than one that sits on a trailer between trips.
Atlantic Pro hauls out, strips, preps and repaints on site, which is the part that decides how long the new coat lasts.
Yes. Fiberglass and collision repair is done in the same shop, so a hull that needs a repair before paint does not have to move. Electronics, rigging, upholstery and canvas are also in house.
That matters most on an older boat, where one job tends to uncover another.
3311 US-41, Palmetto, Florida 34221, about twenty minutes north of Sarasota and ten minutes from Bradenton. Open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm and Saturday 10am to 3pm, closed Sunday.
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