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On Essex Road where the Connecticut River meets the Sound, with the best-protected basin in the area.
We are not affiliated with Safe Harbor Ferry Point. We are an independent mobile detailer that services boats kept there.
Safe Harbor Ferry Point sits at 29 Essex Road in Old Saybrook, where the Connecticut River meets Long Island Sound. It is widely regarded as having the best-protected basin in the area, with picnic areas, a pool, and a playscape making it a family-oriented facility.
The yard is an authorised Mercury dealer with Mercury-certified technicians handling everything from full repowers to routine MerCruiser sterndrive and outboard work, and it has a large indoor boat storage building on site.
A well-protected basin is excellent for storm security and less good for a finish. Enclosed water means less wind and rain reaching the boat, so anything settling out of the air stays on the horizontal surfaces rather than being rinsed off, and river silt in the basin adds to what accumulates at the waterline.
Because Ferry Point does substantial indoor winter storage, this is a good place to combine a pre-storage detail with the haul-out. Getting a hull compounded and sealed before it goes away for the winter is the best-timed work in the calendar, and it means the boat comes out in spring ready rather than needing correction first.
The same packages we run across the shoreline. Restoration and seasonal work is quoted after a look at the boat.
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David Tuvlin24 July 2026
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Bill Viggiano22 July 2026
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Matt Kemish13 July 2026
“Matt and his team do excellent work. He recently waxed my boat and it looks amazing.”
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