Your trolling motor is the hardest-working tool on a fishing boat, and when it quits, the trip is over. We provide mobile trolling motor repair and professional installation at your dock, lift, or driveway across Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Naples, and SWFL. No pulling the motor off the boat. No hauling it to a service counter. The repair shop comes to the motor.
Here is what trolling motor service looks like almost everywhere else in Southwest Florida: unbolt the motor from your bow, disconnect the wiring, drive it to a shop, hand it over with your purchase receipt, and wait. Some service centers will only touch units they sold. For a piece of equipment that is bolted to your boat and wired into your electrical system, that model is backwards, and we built our service to replace it.
Our technicians handle the complete trolling motor picture at your location:
If the fix needs factory parts, we source them and complete the job at your dock. One visit where possible, honest scheduling where not.
Each of the big trolling motor platforms has its own strengths and its own known weak points, and we service all of them.
no power, intermittent cutouts, dead spots on the foot pedal, steering failures, GPS anchor drift, prop shaft damage, and water intrusion. We diagnose electric trolling motor problems systematically, at the boat, where the motor, the wiring, and the batteries can all be tested together
mounting, through-bolt backing, quick-release plates, correctly sized wiring runs, circuit breakers to manufacturer spec, and plug-and-receptacle connections that survive salt air. A trolling motor is only as reliable as its installation, and most of the failures we repair trace back to shortcuts on day one
12v, 24v, and 36v systems wired and verified, battery condition tested under load, and onboard charger installation so the motor is ready every morning
GPS anchoring features, autopilot headings, and app pairing configured and demonstrated before we leave, so you are not learning the manual at the ramp
corrosion prevention on connections, mounts, and hardware, because SWFL brackish water is the hardest environment a trolling motor can live in
Trolling motors sit in an awkward gap in the marine service world. Engine shops treat them as an accessory. Electronics installers treat them as an afterthought. The service counters that specialize in them make you bring the unit in, off the boat. Island Marine Repair covers the whole system, motor, mount, wiring, batteries, and electronics integration, because on the water it all works together or it doesn't work at all.
We are a fully mobile marine service company based in Fort Myers, led by Cody, our certified marine technician, with 15+ years of hands-on work across SWFL's fishing fleet. Flats boats in Matlacha, bay boats in Cape Coral, offshore hybrids in Naples: we have installed, repaired, and rewired trolling systems on all of them. The full story is on our About Us page.
Tournament anglers, guides, and weekend fishermen all share one requirement: the trolling motor has to work every single trip. Our reviews reflect the customers we serve, with punctuality and quick work mentioned constantly, because in fishing, a repair that takes three weeks costs more than the repair.
Fresh installs with clean wiring runs, foot pedal rebuilds, GPS anchor troubleshooting, and complete battery system upgrades. Documented jobs below, photographed at the dock.
Boating in Southwest Florida is a year-round thing. No off-season, no winter layup, no real break. And that means our shop floor and our service…
Southwest Florida boating is incredible—but it also comes with challenges. Saltwater corrosion, shallow sandbars, unexpected mechanical failures, and the difficulty of getting boats to repair…
Some of the most satisfying work we do isn’t dramatic breakdown rescues — it’s the steady, careful maintenance and smart upgrades that keep good boats…
Bay boats and flats skiffs across the Cape's canals get dockside trolling motor repair and same-visit wiring fixes at their lifts. The Cape fishes hard, and its bow motors log serious hours in brackish water that tests every connection.
Installation and repair calls across the river weekly, from new-boat rigging with correctly sized cable runs to reviving motors that sat through the summer with their batteries slowly dying underneath them.
Trolling motor service for Naples' inshore and nearshore fleet, including GPS anchor setup and calibration for the Ten Thousand Islands crowd, where holding position in current is the entire fishing strategy.
Charlotte Harbor anglers get complete trolling system service, motor through batteries through breaker, without leaving the dock. Harbor tarpon season does not wait for shop queues, and neither do we.
Island trolling motor calls handled on-site, because pulling a motor off the bow for a causeway round trip to a service counter is exactly the absurdity mobile service exists to end.
Full trolling motor dispatch to the outer islands, parts and calibration gear aboard. Outer-island bows get the same service standard as everywhere else on the route.
Matlacha and St. James City run some of the hardest-fished flats boats in Florida, and their trolling motors get repaired right at the dock, scheduled between tides and charter days.
Dockside trolling motor repair and installation for the Estero Bay fishing community, where shallow grass flats make quiet electric power the difference between fishing and spooking.
Install, repair and battery system work along the Imperial River and Bonita's gulf-access canals, with complete wiring done to spec so the motor deploys every single trip.
Lemon Bay anglers are on the route too, with full mobile trolling motor service, GPS anchor troubleshooting and battery circuits handled at the dock, no trailer ride south required.
Dockside diagnosis, honest repair, and installations done right the first time, anywhere in Fort Myers and SWFL.
