Service Area
Boat Detailing in St. Thomas, Ontario
Fifteen minutes from the water. St. Thomas boats live on trailers all week and run Kettle Creek to Lake Erie on the weekend.
Proudly local
Your boat detailing team in St. Thomas
St. Thomas sits twenty minutes north of Port Stanley, which makes it one of the most boat-dense towns we serve — a huge share of the fishing boats and bowriders you see launching on Kettle Creek on a Saturday morning spend the week parked in a St. Thomas driveway. We detail them right there, at home or in the storage yard, so the boat rolls to the ramp already gleaming instead of wearing last season's waterline stain.
Lake Erie is generous to anglers and hard on hulls. It is the shallowest of the Great Lakes, it warms up fast, and by late summer its water carries enough algae and sediment to paint a green-brown scum line along any hull that sits in it. Erie boats also take real chop, which means spray, and spray means dried mineral spotting across the topsides. That waterline stain comes off chemically rather than by machine, a machine polish restores the gloss on the topsides, and a wax and sealant on top makes next season's scum line wipe off instead of soak in.
For St. Thomas owners the rhythm is simple: a full detail and protection in the spring before the walleye runs start, and a wash-down and interior clean before the boat goes under cover in the fall. Because the town is inside our core radius, there is no travel fee, and we can often pair St. Thomas jobs with Port Stanley dock work the same day.
Local conditions
A day-trip boat has a different life
St. Thomas sits about fifteen minutes from Port Stanley, which makes it one of the closest towns to Lake Erie that is not on it. That proximity changes the pattern: a St. Thomas boat typically launches for the day and comes home on the trailer the same evening, rather than staying in a slip for the season. The result is a boat that gets a lot of launches per season and very little continuous immersion.
That is mostly good news. A hull that is not sitting in warm water for months does not grow the hard waterline band that a slipped boat does, and it never gets the chance to accumulate mussels. What it gets instead is repeated wet-then-dry cycles, and every one of those leaves whatever was dissolved in the lake water behind on the surface as it evaporates on the drive home.
It also means more trailer contact and more highway time than a slipped boat ever sees. Road film, brake dust and stone chipping along the lower hull sides are trailer-boat problems specifically, and they concentrate exactly where people do not think to look, which is the underside of the chine and the transom corners.
Services in St. Thomas
What we offer here
The Overhaul Package
Full Boat Detail
The everything package. Exterior correction, stainless, interior machine polish, compartments, canvas and glass.
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The Revival Package
Gel Coat Restoration
Sanding first, for hulls too far gone for compounding alone. Then the full finish.
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Polish & Wax
Our most requested service. Compound, machine polish, then your choice of sealant.
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Wax & Sealant Protection
Protection only, for new hulls and aluminum boats with nothing to correct.
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Interior & Upholstery Cleaning
A full clean inside and out, for owners not chasing a mirror finish.
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Marine Maintenance Wash
Regular washdowns for bigger boats that live in a slip all season.
Marine Maintenance Wash in St. Thomas →What Customers Say
Trusted by Boat Owners
Brian M
Posted on Google“Noah and the boys from All Pro Detailing did an amazing job on my boat. Prior to their efforts she was experiencing some heavy oxidation. Their results exceeded my expectation. I would not hesitate to recommend these gentlemen to anyone.”
Craig Huizenga
Posted on Google“Noah and his guys did a great job. My 2004 Trophy looks like new. Top side was very chalky but not now. Photos don't do justice! Thanks again.”
Anne Marie Bechard
Posted on Google“The amazing detail job on our 1993 Rinker boat definitely brought it back to life. The guys were professional, prepared and did a great job cleaning up!”
St. Thomas FAQs
Boat detailing in St. Thomas, answered
Do you come to St. Thomas or do I bring the boat to London?+
We come to you. St. Thomas is inside our core service area, with no travel fee — driveway, shop, or storage yard all work.
Can you remove the Lake Erie scum line from my hull?+
Yes. That green-brown waterline stain is algae and sediment bonded to the gel coat, and it is removed chemically, not ground off. We dissolve it, polish the gloss back up, then seal the hull so next season's line wipes off instead of setting in.
Do you detail fishing boats, or just big cruisers?+
Everything. Aluminum and fibreglass fishing boats, bowriders, pontoons, cruisers — most of our St. Thomas work is exactly the trailered fishing boats that run out of Port Stanley.
When is the best time to book in St. Thomas?+
Spring, before launch. A detail done at home in April means the boat hits Kettle Creek protected — and you skip the busiest part of our calendar.
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Your Boat, Brought Back to Life.