Dock Side Marine Services | Underwater Yacht Maintenance

Dockside Marine Services provides a diver or divers for complete underwater yacht maintenance. Dockside also provides prop pulling, switching, reconditioning and sales.

Dockside has been doing business in Martin County for over 45 years. Many of our customers have stayed with us for over 30 years, through toxic water, frost & hurricanes. Growing with our Dockside friends has been our pleasure & our pride. Gary & Andy are licensed, insured, & available for jobs outside U.S. waters.

Gary & Andy Dowd

3063 SW Summer Avenue
Palm City, FL 34990-3241
772-283-6893

John Dowd

2650 SW Ace Road Pt
St Lucie, FL 34953
772-530-1392

GaryDowd76@gmail.com

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1) Your NAME & CITY, where & when you did whatever you're proud of.

2) JPEG photo & don't shrink it down.

3) We prefer submissions from our friends & customers with their local catches, & do retain the right to choose what gets put on & when it gets replaced.

Raising Dough from Sailfish Pt.

Gary Dowd, a FL resident since 1971, FAU graduate, hails from Pt Huron, MI. He started Dockside in 1973 while attending graduate school in Boca. He & his wife, Becki, moved to Palm City in 1978 & have 2 kids, Emily & Andy. Gary runs, hikes & does P90X workouts weekly, on his 3rd yr of Spanish, reads & is an avid bird watcher & trail guide at TC Wildlife Center in Palm City.

Capt. Scott Mosiman from Jensen Beach is a FIT graduate in Marine Science, spent 4 years in the Coast Guard in Ft Pierce and has been with us since 1991.. He and his wife, Nita, their daughter, Jennifer Breeze Timmerman, and Eathan their Grandson have lived in Martin County since 1974

Our son, Andy, from IRCC and Northwood University; came aboard in 2000. He spends more time home now with wife, Danae and their 2 kids, Finnegan & Patrick, but loves to cook and do carpentry when he can. He is slowly becoming the driving force behind Dockside and we welcome that.

In 1985 Gary's brother, John, & his wife, Nancy moved down from Pt Huron to join him. John is a Wayne State University graduate & Navy certified diver. He goes as far north as Vero Beach & south to West Palm Beach.

Mike Permar, graduate from JBHS and IRSC, has been with us since 2009. He enjoys playing beach volleyball, softball and anything else he can compete in. He took a year off and married Liz Alford in November of 2018. He came back. We’re glad.

Our rates start at $2.25 per foot. At this rate you're Monthly, you have an inboard or small prop and you're in a marina where we can swim from boat to boat.
As your paint wears thin, or as the warmer waters aid in barnacle growth, even your location in the river where growth is faster than others, your rate will be higher. This is just a guide for both of us. We inspect & replace zincs when needed, clean thru-hulls, hardware, props & waterlines.

We patronize ONLY LOCAL businesses when buying our zincs or repairing props. You'll get updates on your paint condition & any damage noted while under the boat each month.

We sell props (new & used), pull, switch & transport props to & from prop shops & install them again. We do hull inspections & prep for sea trials. We recommend painting your props prior to reinstallation to deter barnacle growth as seen on our Prop Problem page.

This means the majority of our customers at private docks all start at $2.50/ft. Boats at 80’ are $3/ft minimum.

Here Gary & Scotty are transporting
a boat for the Season ahead 2009

If you live in or near any of Gary, Andy, Mike & Scotty's areas below, we'd like to hear from you:

The Deck
Allied Bertram
Jensen Beach
Hutchinson Island
The Landings
Willoughby Creek
Four Fish Marina
St Lucie River
Indian River
Mariner Cay Marina
Circle Bay Marina
Palm Cove
Piper's Landing
Sailfish Point

Sailfish Marina/Finest Kind
Rocky Point
Manatee Pocket
Yacht & Country Club
Hidden Harbor
Pirate's Cove Marina
The Corinthian
Loblolly Bay
Sunset Bay
Loggerhead / Harborage
The Soundings
Seagate & LHP Harbors
North River Shores

If you live in or near any of John's areas
below, he'd like to hear from you:

He goes as far south as
North Palm Beach Marina
Jib Club in Jupiter
IRP in Stuart
Club Med in PSL
Pelican Yacht Club in Ft Pierce
and as far north as the
Vero Beach Yacht Club

Let Dockside put you on Monthly maintenance schedule. You can contact us by email or phone. When you call Gary's line, 772-283-6893, you'll hear a daily recorded message of his whereabouts & his cell phone # for emergencies. So, drop us a line today!

Florida Areas & Cities that Dockside Marine Services provide divers :
Treasure Coast Divers, Martin County Divers, Stuart Divers, Hobe Sound Divers, Port Salerno Divers, Palm City Divers, Jensen Beach Divers, Sewell's Point Divers, Hutchinson Island Divers, Saint Lucie Divers, Indian River Divers, Palm Beach County Divers, Fort Pierce Divers, West Palm Beach Divers, Vero Beach Divers