The ShipShape Co. - boat cleaning and detailing of Lake Ozark and Osage Beach's

05/23/2025

It is officially Boating Season! This afternoon I saw the “State Tech” banner being towed behind the airplane. Regretfully no picture, but if you have been to the lake then you have seen this aerial billboard.

04/18/2025

No, it wasn’t me, but I do go to a couple of docks that area. The last few years since I have been working alone, the few times when I do actually get in the water for work I always wear a lifejacket.

A man working off a dock at the 14-mile marker of the lake escapes injury, or worse, after being swept out into the middle of the main channel on a pool raft while not wearing a life jacket. Sunris…

03/03/2025

These pictures are from ~1988 of me washing my grandpas car in the basement of his building in Clayton. The Coke shirt I am wearing in the pictures is not the Coke shirt from the background. Coincidentally 20years ago when I first printed t-shirts for work I chose red with white lettering. I never connected the two before.

06/17/2023

When this boat used to live in a cove near the toll bridge I would tell my nieces and nephews that it was “Batman’s lake house”. I haven’t seen it in years but this boat truly is a work of art! I recall hearing that the paint took 2,000hrs… I’d be scared to get it within 100’ of a dock! Hopefully it stays at the lake.

06/14/2023

The lake was very active for a Tuesday and when I just looked outside (to make sure the sun was setting on time 😉🤣🤣🤦‍♀️) there were eight boats going by at once. Only one boat in the distance now, how quickly it changes.

05/30/2023

Working at a condo today and there has been an ol’ man fishing at the other end of the dock since I arrived. As he walked by he said “you sure know what you’re doing!” After the shock of his statement wore off 😉🤣🤷‍♀️ I replied with a resounding “darn right!” I’m not sure if he was impressed by:
A) my ingenuity to hang clothing lines to dry huge boat covers
B)me knowing to use clips to secure covers to the lines even on a non-windy day
C) my experience to know that hanging boat covers in the sun will shrink them
D) my efficiently designed workboat
E) the fact that I have been doing this since 2004

05/27/2023

The next time I come here I am bringing my rod! Usually it’s a line of single fish, not stacked up like that 😳🎣🎣🎣🎣🎣

05/26/2023

Sounds of the lake at 10:pm on the Thursday before Memorial Day weekend:
1) The scream of a boat lift motor.
2) The hum of a boat motor and faint music (with indiscernible navigation lighting… but at least the stereo works)
3) A emrergency vehicle siren in the distance.
4) A conversation on a neighboring dock.
5) The Ka-kaw of a Blue Heron.
6) The sound of boat wakes hitting the breakwater.

edit: 10:06pm - a neighbor with a Cigarette 39 Top Gun just pulled in with rumbling exhaust and drowned out the other sounds.

05/23/2023

And just like that ends and begins 🕷️🕸️🕷️🕸️🕷️🕷️🕷️

05/23/2023

12,772 steps walking all over and around this boat today. I wonder how many kneeling-steps I took crawling around the low areas 🧽🪣💪

05/18/2023

Todays commute was so short I had to wait until lunch break to make this post. And no this is not the closest boat on my routine wash calendar.