ah.... yes... meant yesterday
Fishing was bad so last night beer replaced my lack of fish
fuzzy head now!
I like mooring and you can still launch and retrieve during winter. A lot of these issues can be controlled with some common sense... e.g. have 2 mooring lines and a lot of boats there only have 1... very little redundancy... My boat is self draining, with a cover. A lot of boats out there are not and rely on one small bilge pump and one small battery that could only keep bilge going for a few hours... no good really in a storm.
I am not certain, but I think the boat sunk due to its mooring line being too short e.g. when the wind was blowing hard the bow was maybe pulled under the waves?? Also the stern is floating above the waterline so there seems to be some air there so it does look like the bow was dragged down.