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Who are Ten-Tex Boating?

For close to 20 years (since 2006), under the guidance of Andrew Gardner - the "hands-on" owner/operator, master detailing expert and boat detailing Training Instructor at  MDA Marine Detailing Academy - Ten-Tex Boating have been providing a superior, mobile Boat Cleaning & Detailing (inc. compound, polish, wax & boat ceramic coatings) service to the Fort Lauderdale & wider South Florida boat & yachting community.


We're your #1 BOAT DETAILING DESTINATION IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

OFFERING THE BEST PRICES & HIGHEST QUALITY IN THE INDUSTRY!


What range of boat detailing services do we offer?

As your preferred mobile boat and yacht cleaning and detailing Pro's, we can provide a personalized range of superior services from waterline to the roof. We customize our services to meet your specific needs, ensuring your vessel looks its best for longer, so you can enjoy unlimited benefits!

 

Here's just some of the services we offer:

  • Wash downs - one-off or scheduled (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or quarterly) & customized boat cleaning & detailing.
  • Wash & Waxing - boat wash & wax.
  • Compound and polishing - using the highest quality Makita Rotary and Rupes Orbital polishers to remove oxidation and restore your boat's exterior finish.
  • Boat ceramic coatings - protective coatings that last longer than Wax.
  • Hull cleaning - using our 8' x 5' floating platform/work float fitted with bumpers to fully protect your hull from any damage.
  • Dingy / Tender - cleaning and detail.
  • Outboard Engines - cowlings compound, polish, waxing & ceramic coated.
  • Teak deck - cleaning with 1-Part and 2-Part solutions to beautify the teak. Staining, such as applying SEMCO, for longer-term protection.
  • Polishing - stainless, windows & isinglass/eisenglass transparent plastic enclosures.
  • Hurricane Preparedness - including securing your boat, the removal of bimini and isinglass/eisenglass transparent plastic enclosures.
  • Boat show - preparation before the show opens, plus daily boat rinse downs, wash downs, polishing & final detailing to maintain showboat condition throughout the public annual event.

Next up on April 25th - 27th is the Suncoast Boat Show at Marina Jack in Sarasota, Florida. Save the date. 


**SEE OUR LATEST  DETAILING PROJECTS  ON FACEBOOK**


What is our service area?

  • Boat cleaning & detailing near me - we are available and fully insured to work in all major marina and boat yards throughout Fort Lauderdale and areas beyond. Our service areas include, but are not limited to: Sunset Harbor Miami Beach, North Miami Beach, Bal Harbor, Aventura, Turnberry Isle Marina, Hallandale Beach, Dania Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Las Olas, Marina Mile, Riverland, Pompano Beach, Lighthouse Point, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, West Palm Beach, P.G.A., Jupiter, Port Salerno, Stuart & all areas in between.


Why choose Ten-Tex Boating?

We have a solid reputation built on:

 

  • Superior Quality: An eye for detailing that surpasses your expectations.
  • Protection & extended lifespan - 3-Monthly, 1/2 Yearly, Annual exterior compound, polish & wax maintenance programs or Annual Ceramic coating applications. One-off or scheduled boat cleaning on weekly, bi-weekly and monthly customized programs.
  • Better first impression - installs confidence in potential buyers about its condition, leading to increased resale value.
  • On Time Delivery:  Punctual, arrive on the agreed scheduled day & complete the project on time AND at the agreed price.
  • Results Orientated: Gelcoat and Paint restoration solutions that show noticeable and longer-term improvement, whatever age of boat and size.
  • Integrity: Trust and honesty in all our relationships.
  • Professionalism: "Hands-on" owner, who manages all projects, ensuring consistent attention to the small details.
  • Insured: Offering you peace of mind, as we are licensed & fully insured with both Workers Comp & Ship Repairers Commercial Liability coverages.
  • Easily recognizable: Professionally trained in-house, full-time uniformed boat detailers.
  • Communication:   Clear, timely, responsive & concise.
  • Value for money:  Free quotes. 100% Quality Guaranteed. Written pricing with full outline of work plan to ensure expectations are exceeded.
  • South Florida: Detailing all sized boats, at all locations - private docks, marina or yacht clubs, on a trailer, boat lift or during annual maintenance at a boat yard.


Experience the Difference with Boat Detailing Done Right!

Skip hiring in-experienced and unreliable boat detailing companies that continue to underperform and under deliver.


Let us fix this problem for good by upgrading to highly skilled, customer focused and reliable Pro’s that will obsess over your new or used boat. We've been cleaning boats since 2006 - yes, nearly 20-years - and at prices your wallet will certainly appreciate!


Our team of professional, in-house trained boat detailers have a combined 40+ years of experience, delivering years of hands-on expertise to every job. We ensure your boat is organized, shines like new, is fit for purpose and is ready on your schedule. Simply put, trust a team that knows the ropes and delivers exceptional results every time.


So, when it comes to boat detailing, you can’t buy experience – but you can certainly hire it!


Book your detail today and see the difference

20 years of experience delivers!


**NEW TRAINING COURSES COMMENCED MARCH 2024**

If you are interested in learning practical ways to maintain the cleanliness and detailing of your boat, join us for practical, hands-on 1-1 training in boat detailing. Open to all levels of student, including those new and experienced professional detailers who want to learn the skills necessary to detail a boat. Courses are taught through our training division, MDA Marine Detailing Academy.

 

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Our Story

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Owners Bio

Like many youngsters living along the coastal towns in the South of England, Andrew Gardner was introduced to sailing along the choppy waters of the Solent. In 1990, while embarking on the start of an around the world trip with his long term friend; Julian Boulton, he decided to gain more hands-on experience by crewing on a 35ft sailing vessel navigating from Gibraltor to Gran Canaria. The vessel was planning to join up with the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) - an annual transatlantic sailing event for cruiser and later racing yachts.


The ARC starts at the end of November in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and generally ends before Christmas at Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia, in the Caribbean. It is the largest trans-ocean sailing event in the world and regularly attracts over 200 boats of many different shapes and sizes. The route takes between 8 and 31 days aided by trade winds, and covers over 2,700 nautical miles.


Upon arrival in St. Lucia, Andrew meet up with some English deckhands working on a 200ft+ Fedship, who boasted how they got paid to work and travel - Andrew was hooked on the idea! So, after several crew positions on sailboats traveling North through the Caribbean & The Virgin Islands, Andrew finally arrived in St. Thomas and jumped aboard a plane destined for Ft. Lauderdale, the epicenter of yachting. 


After several days walking the docks looking for day work, he finally secured a position as a deck hand /steward on a 125ft Christensen motor yacht called "Fifty-One". He spent the next several years cruising miscellaneous ports of call from the Bahamas to as far South as Venezuela and the ABC Islands. 

With hard work, dedication and a sharpening of his boat detailing and seamanship skills, Andrew was promoted to First Mate. After the vessel was eventually sold, Andrew continued his career picking up several positions that took him up and down the U.S. Eastern Sea Board multiple times.   
Later, Andrew returned to the UK to continue his education and in 1997 graduated with a (Hons) Business Studies Degree. At the same time he continued his interest in sailing and took part in the 608-mile Fastnet Race. The race starts off Cowes on the Isle of Wight, along the south coast of England, at the Royal Yacht Squadron. Leaving The Solent through The Needles Channel, the race follows the southern coastline of England westward down the English Channel, before rounding Land's End. After crossing the Celtic Sea, the race rounds the Fastnet Rock off the southwest coast of Ireland. Returning on a largely reciprocal course, the race rounds the Isles of Sicily before finishing at Plymouth. 

In 2005, Andrew decided to leave the UK again for the warmer climate of Fort Lauderdale. Now married, he searched for a land based business that would allow him to keep involved in yachting in some capacity. After several months, he purchased a local Fort Lauderdale yacht & boat detailing and maintenance company called TEN-TEX Boating. The name was a combination of the husband and wife owners' home states of Tennessee & Texas.

The rest is history as TEN-TEX Boating built a reputation recognized for the timely, delivery of high quality, expert yacht & boat detailing services throughout Fort Lauderdale and the SE coast of Florida.    

Boat Detailing Expertise

TEN-TEX Boating

Since 2005, Master Detailer; Andrew Gardner – a British expat & yachtsman from the United Kingdom - and the crew of of TEN-TEX Boating have been providing the Fort Lauderdale & wider South Florida boat & yachting community including yacht owners, Captains, boat dealers and brokers with exceptional quality boat detailing services.


From scheduled & customized wash downs, paint & gel coat surface correction and restoration (compound, polishing, waxing & ceramic coatings), hull cleaning to the polishing of stainless steel, teak cleaning & staining and boat show prep detailing.


As yacht and boat detailing specialists, with 25+ year’s industry wide experience, TEN-TEX Boating can restore dull, water spotted, chalky, scratched or oxidized paint and gel coat finishes on your tender, dingy, center console, sailboat, fishing boat or motor yacht. Delivering near flawless attention to detail, which is guaranteed to surpass your expectations.


All types of paint and gel coat finishes, above the waterline, on vessels of all sizes can be cleaned and detailed both in or out of the water, on a trailer, at your home dock, on a boat lift, marina or boat yard. Remember, as a mobile boat detailer, we'll come to you.


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Andrew would be pleased to visit your yacht and assess the condition of your paint or gel coat. Taking into account the age of your yacht and your annual maintenance budget, recommendations will be made on how best to restore the surface and a program to maintain & protect the boats new finish.


Product offerings include the latest "Ceramic coatings", "Nano" waxes and  "Polymer" sealers to the more traditional compound, polish and waxing products. All marine detailing products are sourced from U.S.A. premier, marine manufacturers such as Presta Marine and purchased from local marine supply stores such as Boat Owners Supply.

How best to introduce you to Andrew Gardner and  

TEN-TEX Boating, than through a familiar conversation he has with both Yacht Owners, Captains and Brokers.

….Jordan P., a Palm Beach yacht broker….
He called me recently all in a panic, stressing out over the state of his new potential listing – a 2012 32 FT Sea Ray – docked behind his client’s home in Delray Beach, Florida. The client was going out of state for the summer and wanted the paperwork all in order within a matter of days.

What can I say, for a 4-year old boat, it looked a real disaster, with his investment going right down the tubes. In this condition, the client would be lucky to muster a deposit for the 47FT Sea Ray he had his eyes set on, while Jordan could definitely say goodbye to double commission! 

Of course, the client’s regular “weekend” detailer had assured him he took just great care of it. In reality all he had done was pocket the change from the purchase of dish wash soap designed to remove the grease & dirt from pots and pans. So any resemblance of a deep shine on the waxed gel coat, which arrived direct from the factory, had long gone. Now as you wiped your hand over the gel coat, instead a white powder lifted off caused by the breakdown of the UV inhibitor’s from that nasty waxing striping boat soap and the effects of the acid rain.

So Jordan called Andrew and within 3 days the boat detailing specialists of  
TEN-TEX Boating had the interior emptied of personal items, thoroughly cleaned & vacuumed, the exterior compound and waxed, oil stains removed from the engine room and the generator cover re-painted. A day later photographs were taken, launched to the web and Jordan had the 1st viewing within days of his initial phone call to TEN-TEX Boating.

PICTURES ARE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS !

Our attention to the small details, the quality of our boat detailing, gelcoat & paint correction & restoration services can be seen through the many project examples shown below and on our social media platforms.

Call  Andrew at TEN-TEX Boating 

954-849-1949 for a FREE boat detailing   consultation & quote.


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RECENT BOAT DETAILING PROJECTS POSTED ON FACEBOOK

Andrew & his boat detailing specialists at Ten-Tex Boating fully detailed, buffed and waxed this 15+ year old 23' Chaparral at Riverfront Marina in FT. Lauderdale.


It had been undercover & rarely used for the past year. Using the premium compound and waxes from Presta Marine (http://www.prestamarinedetailing.com) we were able to completely restore the finish. The owner couldn't believe it was the same boat. For all boat detailing enquiries call 954-849-1949.

Andrew of TEN-TEX  Boating  took these shots of the new 60' Midnight Express Pied-A-Mer at FLIBS. It has a 15-foot beam and when powered by Quad Seven Marine 627HP outboard motors, this 60’ will push over 70MPH. What a truly awesome looking center console. I wonder if we'll see this is the next James Bond 007 movie. I can't wait to add Glidecoat's ceramic coating to one of these babies! More info on the vessel's specs can be found at: http://midnightboats.com/60-pied-a-mer-2

TEN-TEX Boating started a 65ft sailboat project; Top & Hull sides, today down in Dania Beach. The paint is a little over a year old with light weathering. Therefore, Presta's Ultra Cutting Creme Light - paint polish - with an orange foam pad was the order of the day. We're back on Monday to wash, apply a top coat protection and then detail the stainless. Have a great weekend on or off the water.
TEN-TEX Boating started a 65ft sailboat project; Top & Hull sides, today down in Dania Beach. The paint is a little over a year old with light weathering. Therefore, Presta's Ultra Cutting Creme Light - paint polish - with an orange foam pad was the order of the day. We're back on Monday to wash, apply a top coat protection and then detail the stainless. Have a great weekend on or off the water.

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