It is interesting to see how ephemeral facebook interest is. After an initial flurry of interest, precious little. Perhaps all that AI that meta harp on about all the time isn't interested in small yacht sinkings, you have to be a super yacht to be in with a Bayesian chance of being promoted by facebook's algorithms.
I do think what happened is important, if only for lessons learnt. As others have said, the hull looks like it might be wooden, very slightly different lines. If true, that (a) narrows down the number of possible yachts considerably - how many wooden Twisters in the Dartmouth area - I'm assuming she was on a home berth, as it seems most unlikely the owner was on board at the time, and (b) there are a whole of extra possible reasons for sinking over a GRP hull. But there are also a lot of potential boat sinkers in common on both wooden and GRP hulls.
If no one was onboard at the time, and the cause is not glaringly obvious, it may take a while to get to the bottom (sic) of what happened. That said, it probably happened fairly quickly, no one noticed her settling before sinking, unless maybe it happened overnight. The location looks like the east (Kingswear) side of the river, perhaps a little downstream of the higher ferry, from what I can see in the background in the images.
John and Ann - I think the original posting by the contractor may be on a public facebook page, in which case you may be able to see it:
https://www.facebook.com/TMS.Maritime
You may need to scroll down a bit to find the posts (there are two, one with stills, the other with a rather giddy video)
I have several photos of Sniper when she was advertised for sale. I have compared them. There are at least 12 points that are similar including such details as the position of the anchor, the fittings on the pulpit, the stanchions, the forehatch and the main hatch. She is Sniper - although the deck and cabin top are now blue.
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