SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Boats that get away from an anchorage and crash into the shore are sometimes uninsured and badly damaged. It creates a big cost that sometimes ends up covered by a source other than the owner.
For years Santa Barbara City has been hit hard with boats that are off of East Beach and outside of the harbor.
In bad weather one or more is often on the sand jammed into the shore and tilted. In some cases already with a broken hull…