Welcome to Barefoot Barnacle Cleaning, LLC
home of the before and after photos
Barefoot Barnacle Cleaning is a fully licensed and insured, 24-hour service, family business located in the heart of West Palm Beach, FL.
Our Mission: To make a difference for boat owners who care about their boat by providing superior, quality-driven, detail-oriented barnacle cleaning and marine maintenance services.
Business, dance and life partners,
John Lawrence & Michele Rosenthal
I’m John Lawrence, owner, founder and CEO of Barefoot Barnacle Cleaning. In other words: The man behind the before and after pictures.
Every day I'm completely focused on making sure that your boat is being taken care of with a high degree of quality, integrity, honesty, professionalism and expertise. As a matter of fact, my desire to bring those trustworthy characteristics to the boat maintenance industry is how Barefoot Barnacle Cleaning was born.
It all started almost 10 years ago...
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HOW BAREFOOT BARNACLE CLEANING BEGAN
My brother-in-law has a 35-foot sport fishing yacht. Like any conscientious boat owner he contracted a barnacle cleaner on a monthly basis. Imagine my brother-in-law's surprise to discover that –- after sending payments for monthly invoices –- the bottom of the boat was covered in barnacles.
That’s right: He paid every month only to find that the work wasn’t being done. When the boat was hauled for maintenance the sham of the service was revealed.
Knowing that I’ve been diving for pleasure for almost 30 years my brother-in-law asked if I would start taking care of the bottom of his boat.
“I trust you,” he said. “I know the work will be getting done, and done well.” (Yes, he knows I’m a perfectionist!)
For me, diving has always been a passion but never my work. Instead, over almost three decades I had developed a career in construction. But my brother-in-law’s suggestion got me thinking:
Could I build a business out of an activity I love to do in my free time? The answer, it turns out, is, Yes.
BAREFOOT BARNACLE CLEANING MISSION
I set out to deliver outstanding and dependable barnacle removal service. The more boat owners I met and talked to the more I heard the same story:
"My barnacle cleaner doesn't show up, and even when he does the boat bottom is still dirty when he leaves. How much can he really do in the twenty or thirty minutes he's here?"
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I agree. To thoroughly clean a boat bottom (including hull cleaning, prop cleaning, trim tab cleaning and all thru hull holes) takes at least 1 - 2 hours, especially increased by the size of the boat.
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So, at first I thought the Barefoot Barnacle Cleaning mission was just to deliver superior boat bottom cleaning and barnacle removal service. But then, the work expanded to meet the requests of our boat owners. They wanted more than barnacle removal -- they wanted services that took care of their underwater yacht maintenance needs, plus their above water boat cleaning, and also, their accessories including lifts, floating docks, decks and land docks.
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I listened to what our boat owners wanted. Over time Barefoot Barnacle Cleaning developed and grew so that we could fulfill our clients repeated requests.
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BAREFOOT BARNACLE CLEANING GOALS
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The reason Barefoot Barnacle Cleaning has grown to the company you see today is because we take our goals seriously:
1. listen to our customers' wants, desires, needs and priorities
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2. model all of the company's activities on my personal priorities: reliability, flexibility, responsibility and detailed attention
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Reaching and maintaining our company goals has been easy -- they are just an extension in my professional life of how I approach my personal life.
Also, it's pretty simple to do your best when you're doing something you love. In this case, Barefoot Barnacle Cleaning allows me to put together two things I love: 1) diving, 2) helping boat owners build, maintain and enjoy the marine things they value.
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YOUR BAREFOOT BARNACLE CLEANING EXPERIENCE
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When you join the Barefoot Barnacle Cleaning family (and I mean that literally, my wife is my business partner) you immediately get the benefit of all my marine and construction skills.
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Backed by my advanced diving certifications and professional construction expertise Barefoot Barnacle Cleaning offers a high level of marine and yacht maintenance services that go well beyond standard barnacle cleaning. From Port St. Lucie to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, we clean, paint, repair and rebuild boats, pilings, seawalls, decks and docks.
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Of course, taking before and after photos of every job adds time and work. So, why are we so dedicated to offering this additional peek into our services both underwater and on land?
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Because I take a lot of pride in my work. The services provided by Barefoot Barnacle Cleaning reflect my personal standards. I want you to see visual proof of the quality boat maintenance services Barefoot Barnacle Cleaning delivers.
You shouldn't have to wonder if the work being done on your boat is trustworthy. My ultimate goal is for you to experience a feeling of great confidence in how your boat care is being provided.
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With a high level of trust and satisfaction you'll be free to experience what drove you to become a boat owner in the first place: the pleasure of a good day out on the water.