About

About this site

Shasta Mobile Boat Repair is an independent referral and advertising service for boat and houseboat work on Shasta Lake and around Redding, California. It is not a marine repair company, and this page explains what that means in practice.

What we are and what we are not

This site does not fix boats. There is no boat, no shop, no truck, and no mechanic on staff. What there is: a phone number that connects you with local mobile marine mechanics who work this lake, and a set of pages written to be genuinely useful about keeping a boat running in this specific place.

The mechanics we refer carry their own insurance, hold their own licenses, set their own prices, and do their own scheduling. When you book work, your agreement is with them. If the work is good, that is their credit. If there is a problem with it, they are who you take it up with, and any reputable one would rather hear about it than not.

The reason to be this blunt on a page most people skip is simple. Plenty of sites in this line of business dress themselves up as the repair shop, invent a business identity, and hope you never notice. That makes it impossible to tell what you are actually calling. This one tells you up front, which costs us nothing and lets you decide with the facts in hand.

Why there are no reviews here

You will not find testimonials, star ratings, team photos, an address, or a founding year on this site. Not because we could not produce them, but because every single one would be fabricated.

A referral service has no crew to photograph and no shop to put on a map. Any "serving Shasta Lake since 1994" line here would be a decoration. Any five star review would be something someone typed. Both are common on sites like this and both are worthless to you, because a review you cannot verify tells you nothing except that whoever built the site knows what reviews are supposed to look like.

What is on this site instead is information you can check against reality. The rate ranges are real Shasta-area numbers, published on the cost page so you can tell whether a quote is fair before you call. The central fact of this lake is checkable too: a houseboat cannot be trailered to a shop, so mobile service is not a convenience here, it is the only realistic option, and anyone who has owned a houseboat on Shasta knows it. The scope below is honest about where a mobile mechanic stops. If any of it turns out to be wrong, that is a fair thing to hold against us, and that seemed like a better trade than a page of invented praise.

What is not covered

A mobile marine mechanic is the right call for anything mechanical, and the wrong call for a whole category of work that needs a boat out of the water or belongs to another trade. To save everyone a wasted trip, here is what the mechanics we refer do not do:

• Haul-out. Pulling the boat and setting it on stands is a boatyard operation, not a mobile one.
• Hull, fiberglass, and gelcoat. Structural and cosmetic hull work is a different trade.
• Bottom paint. A boatyard job that needs the boat out of the water.
• Houseboat interior carpentry and appliances. The mechanic keeps the propulsion, the generator, and the electrical and cooling systems running. Cabinetry, flooring, and the fridge-as-furniture are somebody else's work.
• Trailer repair. The boat is the job, not the trailer under it.
• Boat sales and detailing. This is a repair referral, not a dealer or a wash service.

Where the mobile line falls on any given job, an honest mechanic will tell you on the phone rather than drive out to quote something they cannot do at your slip. The home page and the how it works page cover what does fall inside the mobile scope.

How this is paid for

The mechanics compensate us for referring callers. You pay nothing to this site, and the referral does not add anything to the price you are quoted.

That arrangement has an obvious bias built into it, so it is worth naming rather than hiding. We are paid when you call, which creates a pull toward telling everyone they urgently need work. Where that pull got resisted is visible on the pages themselves. The won't-start page says a boat that will not start is usually a cheap fix rather than a dead engine. The cost page publishes ranges instead of "call for pricing", refuses to put a flat number on the big powerhead and transom jobs, and quotes generator work separately because a genset is its own engine. The self-interested reason for all of it: a referral service that sends mechanics to boats that do not need work does not last, because the mechanics stop taking the calls.

The phone number

The number on this site is a tracking number. It rings through to a mobile marine mechanic working the Shasta Lake area, and the tracking is how the mechanic knows where the call came from. It is not a call center. Calls may be recorded, and you will hear a short announcement at the start of the call if one is. We do not sell your number, add it to a list, or hand it to several companies who all call you back. It goes to one mechanic. More detail is on the how it works page.

For mechanics

If you run a licensed mobile marine repair business on Shasta Lake and want to talk about the calls from this site, the number on this page reaches us too. We would rather work with fewer mechanics who do good work than route calls to whoever answers.