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Octane Marine Boat Sales and Storage

4.3 (12 reviews)
Closed 8:30 am - 5:30 pm

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Boat repair

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"Repaired" boat prop

Dropped a prop off to be repaired. I know most marine places send these out for repair. I've probably had 8 props repaired in the past by other businesses in 25 years of owning boats. Octane Marine is 10 minutes from my house so I thought I'd try them. I asked if they needed the extra parts that go with the prop. The front desk person said "better send them with, just in case" Normally they don't need them. Whatever. I went with it. Huge Trump flag in the shop. Not my people. But to each their own. 3 months go by. So I call them. The guy says "I lost your phone number. Glad you called. It's ready" I go pick it up. Parts bag with it. I never look in the parts bag. They gave me someone else's parts bag. It wasn't mine. Hub is missing. Parts that are not for my boat or prop. Someone else got short changed too, I'm sure. I've had props repaired way better than this one was repaired. Hard to tell from the picture. It is not a great job. Mediocre at best. I go there to see if they have my hub or can replace my hub. Front desk guys says "I have new hubs you can buy" No thanks. I won't be spending any money here. Went to Laken. They were helpful, friendly, and efficient. I asked if they use the same prop repair place as Octane Marine. They ship their props to Nevada. I'm not sure if they use the same place as Octane Marine. Service guy said it is a waste of money to send props for repair due to higher shipping costs. Business owner reply is an angry response. Hmmm. Thanks for the apology. Sorry we screwed up. Great business practices. Prop has been sitting on a shelf in my garage. It was not "rolling" around anywhere.

Full service including detail... my boat looks better than the day I bought it.

Absolute best place in town to take your boat. Honesty, integrity and fair pricing. Never disappointed. Returning 8-year customer and I was referred from a long time customer as well. Charlie and the crew are some of the hardest working guys out there. When the owner makes sure that you have his cell phone number, that lets you know everything you need to know about who you're doing business with. Absolutely five stars and I highly recommend.

Ready for the water!!

We are somewhat new to boating and anyone that's entered this community realizes how daunting it can be, particularly when it comes to repairs and maintenance. Asking around it was very clear octane marine was THE place for performance boats. While our moomba surf boat is rather modest to some of the boats in the shop Charlie and his crew treated us like it was the most important boat on the floor (clearly it wasn't). They were patient and considerate and helped educate us every step of the way. Knowing boating is not the cheapest hobbie we fully expected sticker shock to our maintenance invoice. But it was absolutely the fairer then we could have imagined. Especially with novice boaters who could have been taken for a ride with our inexperience, Octane marine was straight up and communicative every step of the way. Not to mention their shop is as precise and clean as the work they do. Thanks Octane!! Sincerely, Boat Beginners

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8 months ago

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Jeff J.

Thank you Jeff! See you on the water next spring!

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4 months ago

Best boat shop in AZ by far. the environment is great and the service is even better. i would a 100% recommend taking your boat here.

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8 months ago

This place is as crooked as they come double charged labor and was not even fixed correct take it somewhere else and save your time.

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2 years ago

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2 years ago

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Jeff J.

Thank you Jonathan! See you on the water next season!

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1 year ago

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Jeff J.

Thank you Matt! See you on the water next season!

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3 years ago

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Thank you Dan! See you on the water next season!

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5 years ago

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Thank you Leo! See you on the water next season!

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5 years ago

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Thank you for the kind words Matt... Hope the boat is running great!

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5 years ago

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Thank you Anthony! See you on the water next season!

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We are so thankful we got the recommendation to take our boat to Charlie and the crew over at OCTANE MARINE.

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Bodnar Boat Works

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In short this boat shop does business in a very un-ethical way…read more I took my boat to them with many concerns, Mainly the boat proposing and electrical. (Note they only take cash or check, and do not take credit cards because people challenge it, which makes sense because they tell you one price and charge you thousands more.) Dana the owner walked the boat with me, seemed very knowledgeable explaining the order of repair we needed to do. ( Mechanical, Electrical, structural, then cosmetic) my boat is an older bay liner (1988), all that made sense. He quoted me $1,500.00, to do a yearly maintenance and swap out the prop and change the hub to the new square style. He said he will be in touch to give me a quote to get the Mechanical and electrical dialed in and to see if it's even a project worth doing. I get a call on speaker phone with him and his son about a week later, about how the work is coming along and they have installed a new Binnacle, gages, done wiring, and was asking for me to come down to put a deposit. Being I was confused I told them I would be down the next day so they could walk me through what was going on. (I had not given permission to do any of this work they were talking about) I met with Andy the following day, where he walked me through all the work they had done. I asked him all this work was included in the $1500.00? Long story short, He apologized acknowledging he should have called and there was a miss communication, that the boat was mechanicalyy sound, and they believed that it was good to start all the work. He was about 80% threw all the work and assured me all the mechanical work and parts were good they were waiting on the prop, and they were going to finish going threw all the electrical and if there was any further problems he would call me if they needed to do more work. The estimated total was $4,200.00. He acknowledged that I was up set that they did $2,700.00 worth of work with OUT approval, and apologized multiple times. At this point I felt it was a sincere mistake, Andy said the boat would be ready for pick up the next Monday, and he would call if any thing changed. I show up to pick up the boat, going threw it with Dana and another tech, the boat still didn't have the new prop on it, on top of that it would die when the trim was actuated (they said the new Pinical was wired in wrong) and they would need to look at it. When I went in to pay the front desk didn't have the paper work, and said it would take some time to get the paper work together. I told them I couldn't wait / come back later. That I would have to pic up the next Monday. The front desk lady emailed me the final bill and it was now $5,400.00. I called her and asked her to speak with Dana and Andy to make sure there wasn't a mistake, she said she would and get back to me. (She never did) When I showed up on Monday to pick up the boat, work was completed new prop was installed and I will say the boat ran well. The bill was the same, so I asked Dana why it was $1,200.00 dollars more than a week ago, so we went through the bill. He pointed out that things were added like a key switch and blower motors and a host of other things that were not in the second estimate of cost, and stated they tried to get it close. I explained that's not close, and that I have been very nice and understanding, but I never approved this extra work, nor did I approve the first bout of extra work. That in fact I only approved the yearly maintenance and a new prop with the new style hub. It was my hope being a business owner he would do the right thing and at the very least honor the $4,200.00. estimate since I was for a second time not notified of additional work. He refused, explaining to me "this is how its done" that additional things pop up when fixing older boats that need a lot of work, "its takes too long to call for every thing". I may be wrong, but in 18 years as an automotive mechanic, Ive never done work that wasn't approved. In my personal opinion if work is done that wasn't approved, or worked outside of the budget, the business is taking on the cost at that point. I want to be clear in this review, I am not up set with the work that was done, or the cost of the work that was done. I am up set that at no point was I called, at no point did I approve or say yes to any of the work done out side of the Maintenance, Prop and hub replacement. The sheer audacity to think it's ok, to perform over $4,000.00 worth of work with out asking, and expecting some one to be ok with it and pay that is ridiculous, and un-ethical. Beware that when you go there not only do you have to pay cash / check, you may get charged for work you never approved. It's a slimy way of doing business, I would recommend every one take their business elsewhere, to a shop that has some ethical business practice. I will be contacting the BBB, FTC, and the Arizona Attorney General reporting for unfair business practices and possible stolen

these guys are starting to feel like family. Dana and his whole crew are extremely professional,…read morerespectful, and will go out of their way to satisfy your boating needs! whether you're a DIY guy like me, or need a shop to tackle a project for you- you can always count on Bodnar to get it done right! couldn't thank Dana and his team enough. ps: I'll see ya'll later today when I come by for more stuff!

Octane Marine Boat Sales and Storage - boatrepair - Updated July 2026

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