All right, thanks for the feedback.

I mean, I would have said the exact same thing as you guys a month ago: "Never had a problem". It's never slipped, never had any trouble sticking to the hull, etc.

Maybe I got a bad one. Maybe it didn't like how I stored it over the winter. Maybe my grip strength is so massive that I have such incredible leverage that plastic is no match for the force I apply!!!!!!!!

Dunno. It's not like my sample size is huge.

FWIW, here's how mine failed and a close up of one of my levers that look remarkably the same as about 1/2 the handles out there: