Louie's Marine Electric

We contracted Louie's electrical to fix our 53ft Hatteras through an insurance claim. In the beginning, Louie seemed to be fair and honest and so we referred him to several other clients in our marina that had electrical issues too.
After the insurance claim was closed out, we kept having the same major issues that we had to begin with. We are having to pay another electrician to fix their mess up.
We have cameras on our boat and It came to our attention that they were padding their bills a lot, in fact almost doubled what they should have been. After employing a new electrician and notifying our insurance broker, we found out that they had installed a lot of unnecessary equipment too, as well as installing smaller inferior batteries which now cannot our house sytem sufficiently!

On top of this, while we were out of the country, we had pet sitters who were not in yet on the first day of our vacation. Louie's electrical came onto our boat without our permission and started the motors. Our small chihuahua was on board and panicked (as they were well aware of from previous times) and escaped down the stairs. A fellow captain caught him, brought him back to the boat and warned him to keep the door closed because he was running down the dock. They ignored this advice and started the motors yet again. This time he jumped off the boat to the dock and broke his leg so badly it had to be amputated at the shoulder. We were devastated, our holiday ruined and we notified him that he would be liable for this negligence upon our return.

The sad part in all of this (besides a touch and go situation and our dog having to live the rest of his life with 3 legs) is that Louie's electrical does not think he is responsible and we are now having to sue him for medical bills and for the shoddy work performed.

Our advice is to run as far away as you can from this company. Louie is not honest, they are irresponsible and negligent and will take you for a ride. Use anyone else, just not them.