About Stones Boatyard & The Marine Store Chandlery
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Work and Even Better People We brought our boat to Stones Boatyard in Nanaimo for bottom paint, zincs, through-hulls, a new propeller, and lifelines. Dan and Mitch did most of the work and did a fantastic job — professional, efficient, and detail-oriented. One of the owners, Andrue, stopped by to introduce himself and made us feel genuinely welcome. We stayed on board while on the hard for a week, which was super convenient as we’d traveled from Port McNeill. Highly recommend Stones for anyone looking for quality marine service and great customer care.
We’ve had our 42’ Sailboat in the Stones Boatyard twice now. Most recently we had a tight deadline and needed to leave within 7 days. We outlined our initial work and Mitch, the yard manager, got multiple projects moving right away. Work we had done included bottom paint, prop paint, PSS install (stubborn shaft coupler), replaced 2 lifeline stanchions (very difficult because of their location), bow roller, and repitched our Maxprop. Determining the right pitch for the prop and the actual pitching are both more complicated than they should be and we’ve had it done several times by other boatyards in the past. But we knew we were still under-pitched because our cruising speed was low and we exceeded our max RPMs at wide open throttle. Mitch said that if they did the pitching, they would make sure it was right. 2 sea trials later (we were not charged for the extra haulout) and we finally have a perfectly pitch prop for our boat. We gained 1-1.5 knots of speed, a game-changer for a sailboat in the PNW where we motor most of the time. We pulled our fuel tank and had in pressured sprayed to remove sludge at the bottom of the tank and found it had some pinhole leaks. Mitch, unfazed, arranged for the bottom of the tank to be reskinned and had it back to us in less than 24 hours. We felt at times we had unreasonable requests because of our time constraints, but Stones did their very best to accommodate us despite a full boat yard. We were back in the water a day early from our planned 7 days. Stone’s stands by its work and we will continue to get our boat work done here.
By far the best boatyard for service ,location and amenities . Staff is awesome thanks to Rob, Andrew and Mitch . Very knowledgeable and helpful for any boat questions. Pricing is very fair considering everything you get all in one boat yard in Nanaimo. Located in Departure bay with their own Chandelier, Carlos Pub for good food and drinks. This is our spot to take out boat to keep her in tip top shape. Thank Stones 😎
We were visiting Nanaimo for a day of fishing with our grandchildren and ran into a problem with our boat - which we only discovered at the boat launch. The team from Stones, led by the Service Manager - Mark, were amazing. They were able to fix my boat quickly and competently, their pricing was fair and best of all everyone we dealt with was polite, friendly and super helpful - including the service manager, the mechanic, the cashier, the staffer who helped us get the boat into their yard, etc. We can't recommend this team highly enough and we will start towing our boat up to Nanaimo in the future for any major works.
Mitch and Mark are life savers, they helped me all the way thru my repairs and guided my novice ass through what needs to be done now and what can wait till my next service! Thanks guys and all staff at Stones!!