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Long Beach Marina Electrician for Alamitos Bay, Naples, Shoreline & Rainbow Harbor
Long Beach Marine Electric is the Long Beach marina electrician service for boats in Alamitos Bay, the Naples canals, Shoreline Marina and Rainbow Harbor: about 3,500 city slips plus the private docks in between. It connects you with a licensed, insured marine electrician who comes to your slip for shore power faults, dead batteries, bilge pumps, lithium upgrades and rewiring, then gives you a written price before any work starts.
Common in Long Beach
What breaks on boats in Long Beach
Pedestal trips since the rebuild
Rebuilt Alamitos Bay basins have new pedestals with modern ground-fault protection. A boat with a small leak that ran fine for years now trips in seconds.
Batteries flat between weekends
Boats that sit Monday to Friday show parasitic draws and tired chargers first. A dead start battery on Saturday morning is the classic result.
Bilge pump on a float that sticks
BoatUS claims show dockside sinkings outnumber underway sinkings 4 to 1. Most start with a pump or float switch nobody tested.
Zincs gone in a season
A crowded bay full of boats sharing shore power is where stray current and galvanic corrosion show up on shafts, props and outdrives.
Most-requested here
Marine electrical services in Long Beach
Shore Power Repair
Pedestal keeps tripping, burnt inlet, no AC at the panel. Covers 30A and 50A inlets, cords, ELCI breakers and leakage faults.
Details Call-nowMarine Battery Installation
Batteries keep dying, or the charger won't charge on shore power? Covers battery banks, chargers, switches and parasitic-draw testing.
Details Call-nowBilge Pump Repair
Pump runs on manual but not on auto, or won't shut off. Covers float switches, wiring, fuses and high-water alarms.
DetailsGalvanic Corrosion Testing
Zincs gone in weeks? Covers reference-electrode testing, galvanic isolators and isolation transformers for crowded marinas.
DetailsLithium Battery Conversion
LiFePO4 house banks installed to ABYC E-13, with matched chargers, alternator regulation, DC-DC charging and BMS integration.
DetailsDuffy Electric Boat Repair
Battery pack replacement, chargers, controllers and motor wiring for Duffys and other electric harbor boats.
DetailsMarine electrical work in Long Beach's marinas
Long Beach runs three city marinas with about 3,500 slips between them. Shoreline Marina downtown is the largest at 1,764 slips for boats 18 to 90 feet. Alamitos Bay Marina holds 1,655 slips for boats 15 to 115 feet, and Rainbow Harbor adds 87 slips plus commercial and charter docks. The Alamitos Bay Marina was rebuilt basin by basin starting in 2011, a project budgeted at roughly $96–98 million, and that rebuild matters electrically. Reconstructed docks carry new pedestals built to today's ground-fault limits. A 1980s sport-fisher or a 30-year-old sailboat that ran fine on an older pedestal often meets its first 30 mA pedestal here, and trips it. A leakage-current test at the slip usually finds the reason in under an hour: a water heater element, an inverter wired without proper transfer switching, or a neutral-to-ground bond behind the panel.
Downtown is a different mix. Shoreline Marina is the closest harbor to the office address on Atlantic Ave and holds the city's widest range of boats, from weekend cruisers to liveaboards on the waitlisted liveaboard slips. Charter and commercial boats at Rainbow Harbor can't sit out of service for a week, so their calls are usually about turnaround: a failed inverter/charger, a battery bank that won't hold the house load overnight, or a shore cord that has cooked an inlet. Off the marinas, Naples Island and the Peninsula tie boats to private docks wired from the house. The boat-side work (inlet, cord, ELCI, galvanic isolator) is the same, but the dock outlet belongs to the home's electrical system, so the first visit checks both sides of the plug before blaming either one.
Long Beach's salt water and a summer marine layer that often hangs on past noon are hard on DC connections. Terminals and crimps that would last a decade in a dry garage turn green in a few seasons, especially at battery switches, bilge-pump connections and the backs of older panels. Marine Stadium's launch ramps and its trailer-boat storage for boats up to 25 feet add a steady stream of trailer boats, whose usual faults are corroded trailer harnesses and starting batteries that don't survive the off-season. Most Long Beach marina calls are booked for the same or next day, and the first visit ends with a written parts-and-labor price before any repair starts.
Neighborhoods and harbors covered
- Alamitos Bay
- Naples Island
- Belmont Shore
- The Peninsula
- Bayshore
- Marina Pacifica
- Downtown / Shoreline Village
- Queensway Bay
Landmarks
- Alamitos Bay Marina: City-run, 1,655 slips for boats 15–115 ft
- Long Beach Shoreline Marina: 1,764 slips for boats 18–90 ft, the city's largest marina
- Rainbow Harbor & Rainbow Marina: 87 slips plus commercial and charter docks downtown
- Long Beach Marine Stadium: Built for the 1932 Olympic rowing events; trailer launch ramps nearby
- Naples canals: Private docks fed from waterfront homes
- Shoreline Village: Waterfront shops at the Shoreline Marina entrance
How electricians reach you
From 4401 Atlantic Ave: about 5 miles south to Shoreline Marina via I-710 / Long Beach Blvd, about 7 miles to Alamitos Bay via I-405 and Studebaker Rd or 7th St (SR-22) to PCH. Main routes: I-405, I-710, Pacific Coast Hwy (SR-1), 7th St / SR-22, Ocean Blvd, Shoreline Dr, Studebaker Rd. Same-day callback; most Long Beach marina visits are scheduled same or next day.
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How it works
How a Long Beach marina call works
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Call with your marina and slip
Tell us the boat, where it's berthed in Long Beach and what failed. You get a callback the same day.
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Test at the slip
Leakage, polarity and voltage-drop testing on both the boat and the pedestal side of the plug.
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Written price
A fixed parts-and-labor price before any repair starts.
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Fix and re-test
Repair, then a re-test on shore power with written findings.
Why book through us
Why Long Beach boat owners call
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Prices published
Hourly and job ranges are on this site, with the math shown.
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Dockside, no haul-out
Almost all electrical work is done in the slip.
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Both sides of the plug
The pedestal or dock outlet is tested too, so you know whose problem it is.
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Matched to the job
Shore power, lithium, yacht systems or electric boats: an electrician who does that work.
Straight answers
Long Beach marine electrician questions
How much does a marine electrician cost in Long Beach marinas?
Can an electrician work on my boat in its Alamitos Bay or Shoreline Marina slip?
My boat trips the pedestal since I moved slips. Is it the dock or the boat?
Do you cover private docks in Naples and on the Peninsula?
How fast can someone get to my Long Beach slip?
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