to moor or haul out

[Last Tango]

There's obviously arguments for each option. My fifty years of boating has been split between moored and trailed.
I sleep easier when there's a gale blowing and the boats on the trailer at the side of the house. I don't like cleaning seagull sh*t* and regurgitated dead stuff of my boat and the insurance (that had to be claimed a couple of times because of damage that occurred on the mooring) flat refused to cover me after the end of September and the start of April each year.
My five minute launch or recovery is a two man effort, I don't need extension bars, ropes etc. Tide is not an issue, parking is no problem, the pontoon lies along side and beyond the slip so launch, secure and step off. All this costs me £170 a year. So I'm spoilt I suppose.
The marina does "Dry berth" but it costs ten times as much, I doubt they would flush your brakes, rinse down boat and trailer, flush run the engine up to running temp and refit a full cover so that's not an option for me.

[BeaverDiver]

Do you launch from Largs? I launch there and it's great, never had a problem with low water. Used to use the dry her thing and Big Neil does wash down with the pressure washer but doesn't put muffs on the engine to flush out.

[Last Tango]

Originally Posted by BeaverDiver

Do you launch from Largs? I launch there and it's great, never had a problem with low water.

Yep

[Xk59D]

Keep it quiet or they will Jack price through roof to use the slip.

To be fair, if they see breezeblock launch they will be wanting paid more as he uses wind erosion as a launch timer!

Benny hill memes are welcome...

https://youtu.be/cvyfI5Pc4Mg

Given choice I would haul out every time over a mooring. I have been boating for about 25 years and probably equal split on mooring/marina vs trailer. I do not miss at all going down at 1am in a gale to check boat is still floating in the bay. Then there was the 20 mins to get dinghy ready and row out, getting mooring checked bi annually for insurance, antifoul every year and in this part of the world if you couldn't get down for a few weeks the bilge pump may have drained the battery just enough so you can't start the engine when you finally get a decent day. Whilst seagull crap was always a problem I have that same problem now in my "premier storage facility" so I'm still cleaning it off.

If you have 2 people you can launch and recover in a total of 15 mins easy if trailer setup correctly and favourable slipway, that includes trailer board off, ratchet straps etc. If your slip is only usable some of the tide then that puts a different slant on things. When I use kip marina up here sometimes I need to launch or recover in middle of night or early morning so means leaving boat in marina over night so it really is entirely down to your slipway options.

[Pikey Dave]

Originally Posted by Poly

...Likewise I’d hazard more RIBs come to serious harm on their trailers (or falling off them!) ..

Many moons ago, I had a RIB insured with Bishop Skinner, I read the small print one day and lo & behold, the boat wasn't covered for damage whilst being "removed or returned to its conveyance" I.e launched & recovered.

[Last Tango]

Originally Posted by Poly

........ Likewise I’d hazard more RIBs come to serious harm on their trailers (or falling off them!) than being hit on a mooring. ...

I think this is a risk that you largely have control over yourself. Boats don't just spontaneously "fall off" their trailers. The horrendous hammerings my moored boats have had are down to conditions outwith my control
eg.
My 23" Fairline dragged half a ton of ground tackle (two mushrooms linked with 30ft of ground chain) around 50 yards until it snagged with another boat's mooring and the two boats spent the night bouncing off one another.
Even when I got there the following morning there was nothing I could do about it because it was far too rough to go out in the dingy. Just had to stand on the beach listening to the banging and grinding noise

[Xk59D]

I've had the opposite funnily enough....a big ex mfv dragged a bow and stern mooring about 100 yards and spent 3 days banging into the side of my Boat, it was far too rough to risk going out to move to another mooring so like you, had to just leave it.

When I finally got to the boat it was severe, engine needed new gearbox, prop, smashed 2 Windows, rubbing strip was gone as we're bolted in stern fenders leaving gaping holes and water poured in, ruined the upholstery, dome wiring rusted etc.

When I saw the owner....no insurance so I had to claim my own. Boat yard in helensburgh made a cracking job of fixing It but took many weeks out of the season.