Wow, yea, the marina did this.

your best option is to have the marina replace at their cost. thats a lot of aluminum to weld. unless someone is a really good welder, they will probably overheat it and it will crack thru the middle of the weld in time or distort.

if you have a alpha one i have a housing that i can sell you really cheap

Yea, that probably just broke, :rolleyes: right after they backed it into something.

That's why you need to learn to do your own maintenance. Keeps these mysterious occurences at the marina from happening.

I know I'm sick of all the mysterious scratches that show up on my boat, that's why if I do decide to keep it, it will no longer be going to rack storage.

I have heard soooo many rack and launch horror stories. some places are good, some places hire kids at min. wage to drive forklifts with little oversight.

Just happen to see an alpha unit on ebay Item number: 200262596656 buy now $250. The housing is probably worth that.
I think they damaged it simple trimming would not have done that, Fork lift, most likely maybe. I have never seen one snap off, not being near a hydraulic ram. Yes if one ram binds and the other continues the housing may snap if heavily corroded but with a clean break, noan accident occured in my opinion and they want you to pay for there mistake. Try to get them to buy and replace this housing with new parts. Tell them you will save them $$ if they save you hassel.

Any updates ? That sucks.

I also think it broke in the marina by hitting it or so.

The trimm pumps are not going to do that, unless there was a haircrack befor and someone trimms one up and the other one down ?! But even then i would think it it would of broken in the water.

If they would trimm it up into the platform you would see it at the platform, BIGTIME.

Well it goes with the territory, if you want the convenience you have to give up some of the control. But this year there were too many 'oh its crazy, we don't know what happened there' to alot of the other boats that were down there too.

Not to mention too many stories of boats going out of after hours with the owners NOT on board :rolleyes:. Never saw it personally but heard the stories from more than a few people.

I just don't understand why you did not go right down to the marina and take a look. How did you get the pics. Thats crazy something fishy going on down their I say they broke it some how. I never seen anything like that happen on its own only by getting hit.