Cruisers detailing in Shavano Park.
Sport bowriders, day cruisers, and cabin cruisers — for the boats that live in a slip and need to look like new when the family arrives.
Shavano Park owners with cruisers typically work out of Canyon Lake (40 minutes north). Slip-kept boats at Cypress Bend Marina, Mountain Springs Resort, Cranes Mill Marina. Trailer launches at Cranes Mill Park ramp and Comal Park ramp. Hard mineral water from Comal Springs feed leaves spots if rinses aren't quick.
Service specs · Shavano Park
Built for Shavano Park owners.
Shavano Park sits at the high end of San Antonio's northwest residential market. Garages here often hold a complete weekend fleet — boat, RV, daily-driver, plus an aircraft at SAT or Boerne Stage. We work Shavano Park on a quarterly rotation for full-fleet customers and ad-hoc for individual jobs.
Owner profile. Shavano Park is a luxury enclave on San Antonio's northwest side with large lots, three-car garages, and the kind of property that holds a wakesurf boat plus a Class A motorhome plus a Cirrus at the airport. Owners book annual full-fleet details.
A 28-foot Sea Ray Sundancer at Hurst Harbor on Lake Travis is a different beast than a bass boat or a center console. It sits in a covered slip nine months a year. The family uses it three weekends. The cabin holds a head, a galley, a fridge, and a leather settee that's been baking in trapped sun. The hull below the waterline grows a beard of algae. The cockpit upholstery accumulates sunscreen and citronella smoke. Cabin interiors smell musty by the second weekend of the summer because the air handler doesn't run when nobody's onboard. A cruiser detail is half boat work, half cabin restoration — and it's our most time-intensive single-day boat service.
Where Shavano Park owners keep their cruisers.
Canyon Lake
40 minutes north from Shavano Park. Marinas: Cypress Bend Marina, Mountain Springs Resort, Cranes Mill Marina. Ramps: Cranes Mill Park ramp, Comal Park ramp, Boat Ramp #1 (Canyon City).
Hard mineral water from Comal Springs feed leaves spots if rinses aren't quick.
Stinson Municipal (SSF)
in town from Shavano Park. GA ramp loaded with owner-flown singles, twins, and turboprops. Multiple FBOs and tenant hangars.
Storage facilities
various I-10 corridor storage facilities, Loop 1604 storage yards, South Side storage parks. We service trailers and RVs on-site at storage yards.
Also serving these lakes
Medina Lake (40 minutes west), Lake LBJ (1 hour north), Lake Travis (1.5 hours northeast).
Additional airports
San Antonio International (SAT, in town) · Boerne Stage Field (5C1, in Boerne) · New Braunfels Regional (BAZ, 30 minutes east)
Cruisers protocol — Shavano Park edition.
Hull walk-through with the owner, water-line assessment, and confirmation of whether the boat needs an above-waterline-only detail or a haul-out for bottom service.
Pressure rinse from rail down to waterline; algae waterline beard cleaned with marine hull cleaner before any polish.
Gelcoat polish above the waterline — DA polisher, finish-appropriate pads, two-stage on heavy oxidation.
Cockpit vinyl and helm seating: marine cleaner, UV conditioner; leather cockpit seating gets a leather-specific cleaner-and-condition.
Cabin entry: open hatches, run dehumidifier or fan to start cabin airflow before any wet cleaning begins.
Cabin headliner spot-cleaned with mild upholstery cleaner; carpet vacuumed and spot-extracted.
Cabin leather settee, helm chair, and dinette cushions cleaned and conditioned panel by panel.
Head (toilet) deep-cleaned and deodorized, fresh-water hose check; if pump-out needed, we coordinate with marina.
Galley: fridge interior wiped and deodorized, sink drains flushed, countertops sanitized, microwave interior cleaned.
Bilge wash — flush oil and standing water, spot-clean residue, deodorize. Cabin ozone treatment available as add-on.
Stainless rails, cleats, hatch hardware polished. Glass and acrylic ports cleaned with Plexus.
What's included.
What owners always ask.
Yes — Canyon Lake (40 minutes north from Shavano Park) is one of our core service areas for cruisers. We work slip-kept boats at Cypress Bend Marina and Mountain Springs Resort and ramp-side jobs at Cranes Mill Park ramp. We bring our own water and power.
Almost always, yes. Cabin smell is bacteria in headliner, carpet, and cushion foam. We clean every surface, run ozone for 2-4 hours, ventilate, and the smell is gone. We've never met a cruiser cabin we couldn't fix without ripping interior out.
Above-waterline algae we handle directly. Below-waterline (the bottom paint area) requires a haul-out — we coordinate with your marina for that service and inspect/touch-up bottom paint and zincs when the boat is out of the water.
Yes, and it's worth what we charge for it. Boat heads need a full pump-out coordination, fresh-water hose flush, and a deep clean with marine-safe sanitizer. We handle the whole sequence.
Yes — Hurst Harbor, Volente Beach, Briarcliff, Lakeway, Vintage, and most private slips. Also Lake LBJ (Horseshoe Bay, Highland Lakes), Canyon Lake (Cypress Bend, Cranes Mill), and Possum Kingdom.
A 23-27 ft bowrider takes 6-7 hours. A 28-33 ft cabin cruiser with full interior runs 8-10 hours, sometimes split across two days. We give you a real estimate after the walk-through.
A 23-25 ft bowrider with cockpit and cabin starts at $400. A 28 ft Sundancer with head, galley, and bilge runs $700-900. A 33 ft Express with ozone treatment and bottom-paint coordination can run $1,000-1,200. We quote after the walk-through.
Park it. We'll handle it.
Same care, every job. We come to your Shavano Park driveway, dock, hangar, or storage site.