Go here- your boat will be one less vessel crowding the Charleston waterways lol. The company name is actually the only thing honest at this place, theyre going to leave you high and dry alright!!

High quality. Have done many projects for me.

Good work. Repairs done in timely manner. Good people

Experienced in fixing and maintaining your boat! New bottom, cleaned up, new canvas ready to go!

Called to discuss a potential project over the phone and conversation was short and rude and the price was more than 3 times what I have been quoted by several other local companies. I asked why it was so much higher hoping to be sold on their quality of work or possibly their methods or material to explain the price difference but was shortly told, thats our price. Ended the conversation scratching my head.

Kurt is the Man, Pays attention to detail. Very nice Teak work. Highly recommended. A+

Took some hatches from my boat in to be reworked. Kurt and his team did an excellent job and turned it around quicker than promised. The final invoice was reasonable too. I highly recommend HIgh and Dry for any fiberglass repair work.

My experience with Kurt Oberle (High and Dry Boatworks, Pura Vida Productions) was extremely negative. He charged my credit card a higher amount that we agreed on and refused to refund it. When I disputed the excess charge, he threatened to put a mechanic’s lien on my boat.I contacted High and Dry Boatworks for work on my boat. The work was performed by a third party (Barrier Islands Blasting) and I wish I had gone to them first, because the only problems I experienced came from Kurt at High and Dry.As soon as the job was finished, Kurt requested payment. Kurt was pinging me daily, asking about the payment as I tried to transfer adequate funds into Venmo. This was highly unusual, considering Kurt never specified payment terms and never sent an invoice. He explained his daily calls and texts by saying that his boss wanted him to get payment settled, Kurt is clearly owner/operator so that was a weird lie.I decided to pay with credit card. I have the text messages as proof of this: I asked Kurt “So you will charge $X to my credit card? Otherwise I will find a different form of payment.” He responded “Yes call with card.” A few days later I looked at my credit card statement and realized Kurt had charged a higher amount than we agreed upon. I texted him back about the error and requested he refund it. He said it was a fee and he refused to refund it. I was never notified of this fee, and my understanding was that he was going to charge $X amount as specified in the text. I considered any charges above what we agreed up on to be fraudulent, so I started a dispute with my credit card company.Kurt escalated the situation. He said he was going to put on a lien on my boat until the charge was paid. I’m sure this was an empty threat, but for it’s not worth my time or energy to fight a lien over $120. I agreed to drop the dispute, and when I called my credit card company, I found that he had never even responded to the dispute to defend himself. He said when he received the funds he would send an invoice marked “paid in full.” I had to contact him several times for the invoice, at which point he sent me an unlocked Excel spreadsheet with some numbers on it, and he said we had the credit card statement as proof of payment.Kurt is extremely unprofessional. He is petulant and vindictive. I would recommend that you take your business elsewhere – if you need grit blasting, Barrier Islands Blasting has excellent customer service. If you choose to do business with Kurt, don’t pay a dime until you have an invoice that specifies payment terms. I would avoid paying by credit card, since Kurt charged us a different amount that he said he would. I’d also avoid cash, since the burden of proof of payment will be on you.If you look at the reviews below, you’ll see that Kurt Oberle has rated his own business as 5-stars. Kurt, if your work is really that good, then let your actual customers tell that story. There shouldn’t be any need to artificially boost your ratings.

Great place to get quality work!

Work not done to the quality that we discussed....told it would take 1 and a half weeks when I stopped by almost 2 weeks later there was no work done. Seemed like they were super busy and did not have time for smaller projects.