A diver from our crew pulls your boat's prop in the water at your Hillsboro Beach dock. Hillsboro Inlet is at the south end of town. If the prop touched bottom there, we can look at it.
A prop does not usually need a haul-out. Our diver takes it off in the water behind your Hillsboro Beach home, on the Intracoastal side. Should it need repair, F&J is the shop it goes to. When it comes back, we refit it at the same dock.
The Town's southern boundary is Hillsboro Inlet. The Town calls it the passage for boats between the Intracoastal and the Atlantic. NOAA's Coast Pilot puts submerged jetties at its entrance channel, and the Inlet District says the sand there moves. If your prop touched either, we can look at it.
At the entrance channel of Hillsboro Inlet the jetties are under water, and NOAA's Coast Pilot advises caution. Its report puts rocky reefs to the north and the south of the entrance lights. The south reef, NOAA says, is reported to dry at its southern end when the tide is low. If yours met any of it, we can look at the prop underwater at your Hillsboro Beach dock.
NOAA, Coast Pilot 4, Chapter 10, paragraph 306, November 8, 2026 edition
The Hillsboro Inlet District publishes depth soundings taken in the inlet, and a list of cautions beside them. Two bear on a prop. Moving sands reduce inlet depth, and the chart is not to scale or intended for navigation. Tell us whether the prop met sand or rock, if you can tell.
The Town's site plan checklist, citing Section 12-263(D), permits no docks or piers along the Atlantic Ocean. It allows them, and boat davits, along the Intracoastal Waterway. So a prop job in Hillsboro Beach is on the Intracoastal side of the lot. Tell us if the boat sits in the water or hangs on davits.
Town of Hillsboro Beach, Site Plan Review Checklist, Section 12-263(D)
Yes, we can look at a prop that touched bottom at Hillsboro Inlet. A diver does it in the water at your Hillsboro Beach dock. NOAA lists submerged jetties at the entrance channel and rocky reefs north and south of the entrance lights. Tell us which part of the inlet it was. If the prop needs the shop, it comes off at the dock.
We get to your dock in Hillsboro Beach by the town's one road, then across your property to the Intracoastal side. The Town says it has a single road, running north to south for its whole length. It permits docks only along the Intracoastal Waterway. Give us the address and the gate or entrance to use.
No, most props come off without a haul-out. Our diver removes the prop underwater at your Hillsboro Beach dock, and the boat stays tied up on the Intracoastal side. A prop that needs repair goes to F&J. After the repair, the diver fits it back on the shaft.
Yes, sand moves in Hillsboro Inlet. The Hillsboro Inlet District says moving sands reduce the inlet's depth, and it posts depth soundings with that caution. It also says its chart is not to scale and not intended for navigation. The inlet is at the south end of Hillsboro Beach. If your prop touched sand there, we can look at it.
F&J repairs the prop once it is off. That is the shop our crew sends props to. Our diver takes yours off in the water at your dock in Hillsboro Beach. When the repair is done, the prop goes back on at the same dock, on the Intracoastal side where the Town allows docks.
