Wilmington Marine Service

no longer in business

I took my 32 foot World Cat to Dinko’s in May of 2010– his crew did some thing right but 90% of the work was very poor. Bottom paint in less than a year is coming off, flaking off. The two steering hydraulic systems his supposedly fixed failed immediately. He claimed he sent them to be rebuilt but I suspect he had his shop man do it — since then I learned that a rebuild is not a good idea– buy a new one. He supposedly fixed a crack on my starboard side but after one trip it leaked more than before — I took it back and to his credit Dinko’s admitted that his crew smashed my hull with one of his railings — but instead of drying out the bilge he left it full of water and made the fix while everything was wet– I even told the worker where the hand pump was and rags for sopping up — but when I returned to pick it up I guess since the work looked good I thought it was fine — now I take in about 5 gallons an hour under full throttle!
Dinko was looking at my step ladder and pulling it to see if he could bend it straight and broke my ladder — had to bring in a welder which I paid for…
I asked for new batteries and instead of advising me to use marine based cells (I previously put in automotive gels — my bad) he had his man copy what I had in there as if they didn’t know better! Plus about a month later I was having problems with the batteries only to learn that they had not wired them correctly — one cable even was found by my electrician to not be connected to anything! Poor poor work there!
The bottom cleaning and outflow hardware was cleaned nicely — the bottom paint job looked good — Ginko and his office help (sister and daughter) were very nice and helpful — even Ginko is a nice fellow– cheerful and salty — but I highly recommend you keep your boat off his yard ! I stupidly spent $ 4000 there! I’m not all that marine smart but the lesson taught me a lot — Wilmington Marine is not the place to take your boat for work unless you are either doing your own work or hiring your own experts — his crew sucks.