With the storm that came through last night the winds here gusted to 70 mph. I was walking the beach today and there was a Grady Marlin on the beach. I was talking to the guys aboard who were securing things and getting things ready for a refloat tomorrow. Anyway the boat had been on a mooring and they showed me the bow where the eye had ripped out. Not a very large hole where the backing etc. pulled through, maybe a hole an inch and a half in diameter. Anybody ever hear of this happening? It was suprising to me. On my Kingfish there is a piece of stainless threaded rod that goes down from back of the bow cleat and another piece of threaded rod from back of the bow eye meets that and is welded to it. The rod then continues downward to who knows where. I was on a mooring several years and never had a problem. I was curious about this failure and wondered if anyone had heard of it before.