G23 Prop Fell Off .....

[FEVB]

My G23 shaft broke in early June. Put a hole in the bottom of my boat, and had to pay to get a tow in. Waranty covered it, but our group spent thousands on a vacation that was dead on the first day. Then again, I have a Lemon G23 with too many issues to list here. I am actually typing this from the Nautique dealership in Lake Havasu (our family week vacation) after being towed in (yet again) due to an engine failure. If you are a G23 owner under warranty and you have any vibration, have your dealer swap the shaft ASAP. Avoid the getcoat damage!

It is unacceptable to invest in a top boat like the G and have so many issues. What is your engine? What Nautique says? Hoping for a decent outcome

[GMLIII]

It is unacceptable to invest in a top boat like the G and have so many issues. What is your engine? What Nautique says? Hoping for a decent outcome

Agreed 100% , I think about a shaft break issue every single time I go out in my G 23, and it is impossible not to think about the issue if you are a G owner going back 5 years or so . I’m constantly thinking when it will happen to me . Nautique just needs to come clean with G owners on the repair process and what safeguards they have in place to correct this problem. If you now pay $160,000 for a G you should not have this issue constantly over your head . I hope someone from Nautique is following this post because long story short nothing is positive in anyway. Plus as of my post this thread has had 19,516 views so I would say "HELLO NAUTIQUE DO YOU HEAR US NOW"? We are awaiting a response thank you.

[cmerritt]

I really feel for you guys that have had prop shaft failures.

I was wondering if anyone had any damage to the hull when the shaft breaks

No hull damage for me.

[Specialized]

Just bought a used ‘14 G21 from an individual. What happens if my prop falls off? Does nautique back the product through the local dealer? We love this boat, but I imagine this fix would be expensive if not covered under warranty.

[GMLIII]

Just bought a used ‘14 G21 from an individual. What happens if my prop falls off? Does nautique back the product through the local dealer? We love this boat, but I imagine this fix would be expensive if not covered under warranty.

Will depend on many dilferent situations such as hours but you should be fine with your year model should your prop shear this season or next . After 2019 who knows. Nautique has been pretty quite on this problem many G owners have been dealing with lately . Not a good situation for the name or brand

[SoCal G-Man]

I just realized today that my G23 has spent more time broken at the dealership than on the water. Plus the thousands of dollars I have wasted on trips, on which the boat breaks. It is time to get the dealer to lemon the boat based on inability to use it. My broken G23 has sold 11 boats (that I know of) for other boat brands to friends and colleagues whom I have warned and some have witnessed. My dealer and Nautique are losing sales and the salesman knows it because several of those 11 contacted him first. I have been biting my tongue on social media until recently. We will see what happens.

[SoCal G-Man]

Pics of my shaft and hole in the hull

[DealsGapCobra]

That is pretty major damage, is there a actual hole through the hull?

[charlesml3]

That is pretty major damage, is there a actual hole through the hull?

Let's keep some kind of sanity here in this thread. This is not "pretty major damage." It's a chip in the gelcoat.

[surroundsound64]

Let's keep some kind of sanity here in this thread. This is not "pretty major damage." It's a chip in the gelcoat.

I kept looking for a hole... then saw the chip. lol... I would be upset too if my prop came off, even more if it happened a few times... But it sounded like the boat was taking on water.

[DealsGapCobra]

Let's keep some kind of sanity here in this thread. This is not "pretty major damage." It's a chip in the gelcoat.

You are correct, I was looking at the photos on my phone and saw the reflections as major ‘sheets’ of gelcoat missing! I was trying to figure out why is separated in straight lines, now I know why. That chip is unfortunate but not a big deal.

[swc5150]

While not a hole, it's a nice size gouge in the gel that would make me mad too. Also look at it from his perspective...it's another issue on a long list.

[scarbs]

I bought a new leftover 2017 G23 earlier this year. While on my annual Lake Powell trip in June, the transmission completely failed because the front seal failed and drained all of the transmission fluid into the bilge. Anyway, as part of the warranty replacement, Nautique told the dealer to proactively change the shaft and prop even though the shaft did not fail. I was told that there was a fairly long run of defective shafts from one specific supplier that have had an extremely high rate of failure and that my boat fell within the production run of those defective shafts. Allegedly, the new shafts are from a different supplier and do not suffer from the same issue. I called BS and pointed out that the shaft failure issue has been occurring for years. The dealer response was that there are several production runs of defective shafts. But that Nautique believes that the newest versions of the shafts will not suffer from this failure. I don't necessarily believe these statements--just passing along information recently conveyed to me.

[SoCal G-Man]

That is pretty major damage, is there a actual hole through the hull?

Yes. The hull is thick, so it barely punched through, but still ruined another trip. Since buying this Nautique new in 2016, I have not been able to take it on a multi-day trip without some sort of problem that shortened our trip and cost thousands of dollars. Either Nautique is not the quality brand I thought it was, or this particular boat is a POS. I have lemoned two vehicles, so I know the process to go down that road. I get mine back later this week form the Havasu dealer. Hoping to have my first successful multi-day trip without a breakdown next weekend in Havasu!

Looking at the positive side, at least my boat has low hours since it is in the shop so much.

[Kenv]

Today.....friends 2018 G23. Broke in the same spot as all the others. 50 hours