Most strongly recommended! I purchased a used boat/motor/trailer set up from them and had a fantastic experience. Herb was patient, helpful, and knowledgeable. I appreciated that he took time to explain the boat operation and details during delivery. It was well worth the trip to Rochester! read more

Al's did a good job rigging the outboard on my new Lund boat. Unfortunately they failed to latch the stern compartment door shut and the door flung open on the interstate and chipped the cover of the outboard while I was driving my brand new boat home. When I got the boat home I noticed that the outboard battery leads were only hand tightened. Little did I know that these were a prelude of things to come. The electronic rigging was awful. Al's had little knowledge on rigging boat electronics and I had multiple issues that included: 1.) Multiple connectors that came loose from wiring because they were too small, not adequately crimped, and only a couple were heat shrunk. Example: The positive battery cable to the bow of the boat came loose my second time out because Al's connected it to a small wire gauge spade connector instead of a properly sized battery cable ring connector. The connector they installed was many sizes too small for the battery cable and not heat shrunk to the cable so of course it came loose. 2.) A required on/off switch was not installed and it killed the outboard battery. 3.) Two 15" fish finders were hooked up to the outboard battery instead of a dedicated deep cell battery as specified by the manufacturer. 4.) Al's mounted the trolling motor heading sensor touching a bundle of cables that included the throttle cable, directly in a magnetic field - the worst possible spot on the boat (I was unable to calibrate the trolling motor until I troubleshoot the incorrect rigging which required moving and re-wiring the heading sensor). 5.) The trolling motor was loose. Turns out one of the 4 bolts used to mount it to the bow of the boat was too short and there was no nut on the other end. The other 3 bolts were loosely tightened, one of which I was able to turn by hand. Had I not noticed this early on, chances are the trolling motor would have eventually ended up on the bottom of a lake or the middle of an interstate. 6.) I had Al's mount an SI transducer to the bottom of the trolling motor. It came loose my third time out and was hanging by it's cable when I returned to the dock. 7.) I asked Ryan to only use block fuses, no in-line fuses. I had the following written into the contract that he signed: "Block fuse holders with minimum of 4 open slots for future adds". This could not have been clearer. Yet, Al's only installed a block fuse holder at the helm, not the bow - Instead they installed a tinny little electronic spade connector power strip (I remember these from my old stereo receivers from the early 1970's). There were multiple in line fuses instead of block fuses in the bow. It's since been replaced with a proper marine fuse block with ring connectors. Between the time I spent fixing multiple rigging issues (one of which left me stranded on the water), to the dollars I spent having a knowledgeable mechanic fix the rigging issues that I was unable to fix, to the weekends that were ruined because of dead batteries, loose connections and incorrect rigging, I wish to God that I had not purchased the boat from Al's Specialty Marine. Electronic rigging was most certainly not a "Specialty" at Al's Specialty Marine. The workmanship was disgraceful. This was a major disappointment. The only positive was that I learned a lot about rigging a boat while I troubleshoot and fixed a continuous array of problems. Needless to say, I made huge mistake buying the boat from Al's Specialty Marine and will never do business with them again. Neither will any of my fellow fishing club members, some of whom were on the boat when it died on the water. Word gets around. read more

I just must always come here on bad days . I feel if your not buying something brand new or full price you get treated differently. I've been here twice and both time I felt leaving this way . Once so simple as a boat tire . Anther on a throttle arm on my older outboard . I won't look to return . read more

I had the pleasure of speaking to Caleb about a new Lund Impact while shopping for a boat. The experience was a sharp contrast to the poor attitude/indifference and lack of knowledge offered by my local Lund dealer. Although I ended up purchasing a boat made by another manufacturer from another dealer, I thought the pre-sales help and information I received from him was worth sharing here. read more

Al's did a good job rigging the outboard on my new boat. However, the electronic rigging was terrible. They had little knowledge on how to rig the electronics and I had multiple issues including 1.) Connectors that came loose from wiring because they were not crimped and heat shrunk correctly, 2.) A required on/off switch that was not installed and it killed the outboard battery, 3.) Two 15" fish finders hooked up to the outboard battery instead of a dedicated deep cell battery as specified by the manufacturer, 4.) Mounting the trolling motor heading sensor touching a bundle of cables that included the throttle cable, directly in a magnetic field - the worst possible spot on the boat (I was unable to calibrate the trolling motor until I troubleshoot the incorrect rigging which required moving and re-wiring the heading sensor). Between the time I spent redoing multiple electrical connections (one of which left me stranded on the water), to the dollars I spent having a knowledgeable mechanic fix the incorrect rigging issues, to the weekends that were ruined because of dead batteries, loose connections and incorrect rigging, I wish to God that I had not purchased the boat from Al's Specialty Marine. Electronic rigging was most certainly not their "Specialty". This was a major disappointment. Needless to say, I will never again do business with Al's Specialty Marine. Neither will any of my fellow fishing club members, some of who'm were on the boat when it died on the water. Word gets around. read more

I was in Al's late last year. Didn't buy anything, just browsing but they treated me like family and you can't ask for more than that.