Boat electrical service in Little Rock
Batteries, wiring, gauges, pumps, and electronics fixed where your Little Rock boat sits, priced from the published menu. Call (501) 214-5882 or send the form below.
Little Rock keeps most of its boats on trailers, and trailered boats develop a particular kind of electrical trouble. They sit for weeks between trips, so batteries drain down through small parasitic loads, terminals corrode in the humidity, and the first sign of any of it is a no-crank at the Murray Park ramp on a Saturday morning with a line of trucks behind you.
Arkansas River Marine Electric works Little Rock as a mobile service. We come to the driveway, the storage yard, or the ramp, trace the fault with a meter rather than a guess, and fix it where the boat sits: dead batteries and the drains that killed them, corroded grounds, bilge pump circuits, navigation lights, trolling motor wiring, and the gauges that stopped reading years ago and never got fixed.
The diagnostic fee and common job prices are published on the cost page, so you know the numbers before the truck rolls. Most driveway calls in Little Rock get scheduled inside a few days, and a boat that dies the week before a tournament gets treated like the emergency it is.
The battery that keeps dying
A battery that keeps dying is usually not a battery problem. Boats wired over years of added electronics almost always pick up a small always-on draw, a memory wire, a bilge float gone sticky, a radio that never fully sleeps. Replacing the battery buys weeks; finding the draw with an ammeter fixes it. We do the second one.
Where we work in Little Rock
The truck knows Murray Park and Rebsamen ramps, the Little Maumelle, the Murray Lock and Dam pool, garages and storage yards citywide, covering ZIPs 72202, 72204, 72207, 72210, 72223. If your boat lives near those, we have probably already worked your street or your ramp.
Get a Little Rock boat looked at
Describe the boat and the symptom; the quote comes off the published price menu.
Little Rock boat electrical questions
Is there a mobile marine electrician in Little Rock?
Yes. Arkansas River Marine Electric is based across the river in North Little Rock and works Little Rock daily: driveways, storage yards, marinas, and ramps. You do not trailer the boat to a shop; the meter and the parts come to the boat, and the diagnostic fee is published on our cost page.
My boat cranks slow at the ramp even with a new battery. What is that?
Usually resistance, not power: corroded battery terminals, a failing ground strap to the engine block, or undersized cables that have cooked over the years. A voltage-drop test finds it in minutes, and the repair is often cables and terminals rather than more parts-cannon batteries.
Can you fix my gauges that stopped working?
Dead or erratic gauges are one of our most common Little Rock calls. The fault is usually in the harness, a ground, or the sender rather than the gauge head itself, which is why we trace before replacing. Fuel senders and temperature senders on older outboards are a routine fix.
What does a service call cost in Little Rock?
The dockside diagnostic is $125 and gets credited toward the repair when you approve the work. Common repairs on the cost page: battery system work $150 to $400, bilge pump circuits $150 to $350, trolling motor wiring $200 to $500. The invoice matches the published menu.
Do you work on pontoons and houseboats too?
Yes, the whole range: bass boats, pontoons, jon boats, ski boats, and the houseboats and cruisers that live in the river marinas. Shore power, battery banks, and lighting on live-aboard-style boats are regular work.
Arkansas River Marine Electric serves central Arkansas from its North Little Rock base. See the full service rundown, the price menu, or nearby areas: Maumelle, Sherwood, Jacksonville, Cabot.