Bubz Boat STOR

Steer clear of Blake and Bubz Boat Stor at all costs. Blake is a complete scammer, as others have said. We stored our boat with Blake from March 2017 through May 2018. We made the mistake of trusting Blake to winterize our boat this past fall. Although he had been tough to reach most of the time the previous summer, when spring came I had a surprisingly easy time getting a hold of him. He answers the phone on my first call and tells me the boat will be available when I want it in about 10 days time. At this point I’m thinking everything is fine so I ask him to perform a U-joint service on the boat prior to us picking it up and he says he’ll take care of it. A few days after that his girlfriend calls me and charges my credit card $125 for the U-joint service. Then I get radio silence for several days. No response to texts or phone calls. Finally he tells me, via text, that he has bad news and that multiple boats in his warehouse “froze” over the winter, including ours. He tells me he can have a new engine in our boat in one to two weeks. WHAT?!?! To cut to the chase.....we now know that Blake made no effort to winterize our boat at all. When I went to retrieve the boat, Blake told me the mixture of antifreeze he used apparently didn’t have the proper ratio of coolant to water--which turned out to be a complete fabrication Blake told while looking me straight in the eye. We took it to a reputable mechanic and they found no antifreeze in the boat whatsoever. Not a drop. I now know that proper winterizing would only involve pure antifreeze anyway, no water. Blake ruined a perfectly good engine in a boat just 5 years old by not performing a routine, $100 service that he promised us he would take care of. He couldn’t even be bothered to let us know he wasn’t going to do it / couldn’t afford the supplies / whatever the issue was. Our block was cracked in multiple places and the engine had to be replaced.nnTo add insult to injury--court records show that Blake was in jail on the date his girlfriend called me to charge my credit card $125 for the U-joint service. He got out of jail three days later after posting a $200 bail. At the time we were charged for the U-joint service, Blake was of course aware that he had not winterized our boat and that our engine was destroyed and he therefore could not perform said U-joint service. Putting it all together--it’s clear now that his girlfriend charged my credit card to use toward Blake’s bail. It was a straight up fraudulent charge that we successfully disputed as soon as I figured this out. STEER CLEAR OF BLAKE AND BUBZ BOAT STORE.

Absolute scam! I hired Blake to swap an engine. He said it would take 2 weeks. 2 months later he started demanding money to finish the boat. This guy screws something up because of his incompetence and expects you to pay him for trying. Absolute shadiest guy i ever dealt with!!! Stay away, had lawyers involved to get the boat back! He also stole the batteries out of my boat. Had police involved to try to get those back.nn** Update - my boat engine was never blown. Blake's incorrect diagnosis caused me to replace a perfectly good engine. It was a gear in the drive that sheered off and locked up the drive, not the engine. I was told this should have been the 1st thing checked. The new shop figured this out in 15 min! I did work out a deal with Blake because there was concern about him starting to damage my boat. No, he did not credit me for my batteries. We agreed on a price before I realized my batteries were stolen. He said he would return them but then said he was not responsible for stolen property. So i doubt he ever had them - probably sold them to someone else) I had to take the boat to a new shop to have it completed. Blake tried to maneuver the engine with a 2x4 and caved in the oil pan. They had to pull the engine out and replace that. He stuck in 2 old broken spark plugs. Essentially every wire was wrong. He used a stack of old washers to make a spacer. Almost ever water hose was missing a hose clamp. He billed me $800 for a computer he said he reprogrammed. It is not reprogrammed. And he knows that because he never started the engine (was never even capable of running due to his shoddy work despite telling me it was running and on the lake). There is not even a dipstick on the engine. Blake says he was $4,000 into labor. He charges $100 per hr. That would mean he has worked 40 hrs on this engine. 3 other shops quoted me 16 hrs to swap the engine. They probably would have checked the drive!!! Blake was at 40 hrs and nowhere near done. He started demanding i pay him for the work he had done up to that point. And then told me I had to start paying him to work on the boat again. I am litterally $10k into fixing a problem that was never there. I am not trying to humiliate him. His actions humiliate him. If i were Blake and conducted my business like this I would be embarrassed and ashamed. I just want people to stay clear of this guy. This guy literally can not quit lying. Yes, i am complaining. Bake had my boat all summer long and lied to me about every aspect of it. Blake's ignorance has cost me $10k. I think I have the right to complain. I have text messages and emails that confirm everything I have said. I would be happy to share them.nnBy the way, the only positive review he has is from his brother Aaron.

So blake comes off as a great guy he will tell you everything you want to hear but he is a fraud. It started last summer when he began a fiberglass repair on my swim platform that was never finished and everytime i asked he promised it would be done that week. Then came winter storage i had him winterize and store the boat indoors for the year which is great, he even texted me when he winterized it and all was fine until april when i was ready to get the boat out and he wouldnt respond to my calls or text and finally after several attempts i was able to get the boat out to find out not a drop of antifreeze went through it. Besides him lying to my face everytime we met i then found out several other boats were in the same situation as me. He took out an insurance claim on my boat and several others in febuary when he claims he knew bothing about it. DO NOT AND I MEAN DO NOT TRUST BLAKE WITH YOUR BOAT OR RV he will leave you with nothing but a headache and a lot of money out of pocket on your end. I learned my lesson i dont want others to make the same mistake.

Unprofessional. Won’t show up when he states he will for boat delivery. Doesn’t even bother to let you know he isn’t coming. Same story every year and we are done. Don’t use!

Great guy easy and personal