muskymatt Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 Me any my buddy hit the Ottawa yesterday for some muskie action and had a rather unfortunate thing happen. We were making a run back to a troll from about 10km down the river and were running about 40mph when suddenly the boat lost forward propulsion and the rpm's shot up. I immediately slipped it into neutral and let the boat come to rest. Tried forward, and nothing, tried reverse and same thing. So I shut it down and trimmed up and saw this. Shocked, and a little pissed to see a stainless prop gone I thought maybe we hit something. Only problem was we were in 130 fow. We finished the day on the trolling motor and got diddly squat for muskies. Back at the launch I took a closer look and cotter pin, nut and hub all in place, albeit with major slippage, but no prop. Weird!! Expensive day LOL Only good thing is I have a newly rebuilt stainless in the shop ready to go on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRIFTER_016 Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 OUCH!!!! Hub failure!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 Yep.. total hub failure and if you hadn't of put it in reverse you'd still have the whole mess to see exactly how it failed! Reverse threw it off ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickingfrog Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 I know someone who went a long way with no cotter pin, Put it in reverse to slow the boat down and floumpt the prop drops off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.brock Posted November 16, 2014 Report Share Posted November 16, 2014 I think it would have flown off right away when it failed, even before going into reverse hopefully you have the receipt for the prop and can give them a call bizarre for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muskymatt Posted November 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 I think it would have flown off right away when it failed, even before going into reverse hopefully you have the receipt for the prop and can give them a call bizarre for sure It seemed to have flown off at 40 mph, can't confirm that but it went from go to no go in a flash. I suppose it could have flown off when I engaged reverse but I'll never know. No warranty no go back, just a loss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRIFTER_016 Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 No spare in the boat Matt? I carry a spare in mine. I have plastic propeller box to carry it in along with a spare hub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 Put a bigger washer on next time. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Farmer Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 A slightly bent blade will do that, Out of balance will chew the rubber insert. Soon as you slowed down the back presser threw the prop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landry Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 What r the prop specs. My friend has two new stainleaa ones for sale. His motor is a 200 opti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Cliff Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 I suspect that prop was gone before he put it in reverse. As soon as the hub failed that badly the prop had no forward thrust to hold it in place and not enough friction to keep it on the shaft, the forward motion of the boat would have created reverse pressure on the prop pushing it right off the hub. I guess we'll really never know. Glad you at least had a trolling motor so you could get back home ok. This isn't a good time of the year to be stuck out on the water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish_fishburn Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 I have never seen anything like that in all my years of boating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garnet Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 You are lucky! My buddy did a 2'fer the lower unit and blew the motor up. He didn't get the rpm's down quick enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Cliff Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 You are lucky! My buddy did a 2'fer the lower unit and blew the motor up. He didn't get the rpm's down quick enough. Was it an older motor? Don't most of the new ones have a rev limiter on them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garnet Posted November 18, 2014 Report Share Posted November 18, 2014 That was a few years ago...............20-25! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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