MFDs & sonar
Garmin, Simrad, Lowrance, Humminbird, Raymarine, Furuno. Chartplotters, side-scan, live sonar, and the transducer that actually matches the hull.
Florida mobile shops that do this well sell the same idea: the upgrade is not the box. It is a clean network, the right battery bank, and a helm you can run in the dark without guessing. We install at your slip so the boat never sits in a yard queue for a stereo, a Pole, or a plotter.
Written scope before extra work. Professional Mobile Marine Site Fee $150. Labor $190/hour. Parts extra. Brands below are what we commonly install — if you already bought the gear, we still hang it.
The shops that stay busy in Florida — Billfish in Volusia, O-SEA-D on the Treasure Coast, Coastal MET on the Space Coast, Outboards & More statewide — all sell the same stack: MFD, transducer, radar, VHF, autopilot, cameras, then a real NMEA 2000 backbone so none of it fights. That is the work.
Garmin, Simrad, Lowrance, Humminbird, Raymarine, Furuno. Chartplotters, side-scan, live sonar, and the transducer that actually matches the hull.
Open-array or dome radar, AIS receive/transmit, autopilot brains and pumps. Commissioned at the dock, not “powered on and left.”
Fixed VHF with DSC, rear and engine-room cameras, extra helm screens, and instrument clusters that replace dead analog holes.
Jensen Beach–style shops live on this: weatherproof speakers, Bluetooth heads, amps, and wiring that does not share a ground with the bilge pump. We do the same at your console, T-top, and tower.
A Pole without battery and charging work is a dead stick on a Saturday. We hang single or dual Power-Poles (and similar shallow-water anchors), run the hydraulics or spikes clean, and size the bank so the house still starts the motors.
Transom layout, spike length, and switch placement that a real angler can hit with a rod in the other hand.
Dedicated or shared bank, charge sources, and cable sized so voltage does not collapse when both Poles fire.
Same shop that hung it can diagnose it next season. No orphan install.
Coastal MET and Outboards & More both treat Minn Kota and Garmin Force as a system: mount, batteries, charger, and the network so the plotter and the motor agree on where you are. That is the install we run.
Every serious Florida upgrade list ends here. Audio, Poles, live sonar, and Starlink all fail the same way: a tired flooded group 31 and a 10-amp charger. We spec AGM or lithium, combiners, onboard chargers, solar where the T-top allows it, and inverters when you actually need 120V.
Isolated start batteries. House bank sized to the electronics and Poles you just added.
Onboard multi-bank chargers, alternator sense, solar trickle on the lot.
Perko / Blue Sea class switches, breakers, and a panel you can label and service.
Deck floods, T-top spots, courtesy strips, nav and anchor, underwater transom lights, and the switches that belong with them. Wired to a fused panel — not a cigarette plug.
Billfish and O-SEA-D both lead with this because owners feel it: a messy dash is a safety problem. We pull dead gauges, cut or order a clean panel, run a real backbone, terminate it, and label every drop.
South Florida shops now treat marine Starlink as a standard upgrade next to radar. We mount, weatherproof, and give the plotter and the phones a network that survives a summer squall. VHF with DSC and a mast or T-top antenna when the old coil is cooked.
No dollar figures on this page. You get a written package with parts, labor hours, and site fee after we see the boat. These are the bundles Florida owners actually book.
MFD + transducer, Power-Pole or dual, trolling motor bank, LED courtesy. Built for the creek and the ramp.
Bluetooth audio, house battery and charger, courtesy and underwater lights, phone / USB power at the helm.
Dual or large MFD, radar, VHF, cameras, NMEA backbone, autopilot if the boat is ready for it.
Lithium or AGM house conversion, multi-bank charger, solar trickle, clean switches. Everything else gets easier after this.
Head unit, speakers, amp, RGB if you want it, fused runs. No sharing the livewell circuit.
Marine Starlink or hotspot, VHF check, plotter software and network drop so weather and charts stay live.
Professional Mobile Marine Site Fee $150. Labor $190/hour. Parts extra. We stop and get written approval before extra work. Diagnostic and layout time is billable even if you decline the install.