Boat electrical service in Jacksonville
Batteries, wiring, gauges, pumps, and electronics fixed where your Jacksonville boat sits, priced from the published menu. Call (501) 214-5882 or send the form below.
Jacksonville boats work for a living. This is jon boat and mud rig country, staging ground for Holland Bottoms and the Bayou Meto bottoms, and the boats here get used the way farm trucks get used: hard, wet, cold, and with no patience for downtime in season. The electrical systems take the worst of it, because duck hunting is fundamentally a program of running electronics and pumps in freezing water in the dark.
Arkansas River Marine Electric gives Jacksonville rigs the treatment they actually need: fused, sealed, marine-grade wiring instead of the automotive-store patchwork most rigs accumulate; navigation and light-bar circuits that hold up; bilge pumps wired to work unattended; and batteries and charging matched to mud-motor realities. Family runabouts and pontoons from the AFB side of town get the same meter-first troubleshooting on gentler problems.
The published menu covers all of it, the truck comes to your shop or driveway, and pre-season October work books ahead for a reason. A rig fixed in October never becomes a story told in December.
Navigation lights and the dark launch
Boats that launch in the dark need their navigation lights working, and Arkansas game wardens check. The all-round white light and red-green bow light rules apply to jon boats under power like any other vessel, and a dead light circuit is both a ticket and a genuine hazard in a pre-dawn timber hole. Light circuits are quick to fix and cheap to fix, and worth doing before opening morning.
Jacksonville and the bottoms
The truck knows Holland Bottoms WMA access, the Bayou Meto corridor, Little Rock AFB neighborhoods, the Highway 67/167 strip, covering ZIPs 72076, 72078. If your boat lives near those, we have probably already worked your street or your ramp.
Get a Jacksonville rig ready
Describe the boat and the symptom; the quote comes off the published price menu.
Jacksonville duck rig questions
Can you fix a mud motor rig’s wiring?
Yes, mud rigs are regular patients. Surface-drive and long-tail rigs shake connections loose and drown harnesses, and the fix is marine-grade wire, sealed connectors, and proper fusing laid out to survive vibration. Most full cleanups run $200 to $600 off the published menu.
My bilge pump quit and the boat sits outside. How fast can you come?
A boat taking on rainwater with a dead pump is a priority call, and Jacksonville is twenty minutes out. Pump circuit repairs run $150 to $350 published, and we test the float switch as part of the job because the switch fails more often than the pump.
Do you work on regular family boats or just hunting rigs?
Both. Runabouts, pontoons, and ski boats from the AFB neighborhoods get the same service: batteries, gauges, stereos, lighting, and charging systems, at the same published prices. The meter does not care what the boat is for.
What should I have done before duck season?
The October list: load-test the battery, clean and protect every connection, verify both bilge pumps and the float switch, confirm navigation lights, and put every accessory on a proper fuse. That visit typically runs $150 to $300 and is the cheapest insurance in waterfowling.
Arkansas River Marine Electric serves central Arkansas from its North Little Rock base. See the full service rundown, the price menu, or nearby areas: Little Rock, Maumelle, Sherwood, Cabot.