Yacht

 Went and looked at Iona's 60 steel hulled junk rigged yacht this morning.  Paul, her fellow Brit  neighboring yachty, 32 years on the water,  picked us up dockside in a small inflatable and off we go across two channels & 3 tiers of anchorages,  wavy wind blown water splashing over the gunnels.  Paul is very good.  I would have turned back. The following pic is inside the protected marina....over the bow of the tiny inflatable, thereafter I stowed my camera and held on tight.

Pull up to the stern of Iona's yacht and I crawl/hop onto the swim platform, then up the ladder onto the deck.  This is a substantial boat.  Iona and husband, mostly husband, built the boat from customized plans from a established design, switching the original marconi rig to a junk rig.  The original construction drawings, stored in the chart room, are very detailed.  Replacement value at the last survey in 2005 was $190,000 while the then current value was $120,000 reflecting the state of being unfinished,   still is unfinished.  Nonetheless the couple sailed it from Bodega Bay CA to explore the Sea of Cortez where it has been for 20 years,  many of those years up dry on the hard.

Iona says lets fix it to go exploring.  OK!  lets see, need to repair dingy and motor,  replace anchor windlass switches & test, get water pressure cap for isuzu diesel & test,  why don't console electrics work? Get an assist from a fellow yachty with junk rig operation and test.  Thats all, well maybe. Then we can go!

I was curious about anchorage fees and found these very cheap fees, $4 to register then $1.00 per day.

Then this on Facebook community page:

I suspect  fees/fines are not  enforced to make up for the difficulty of sailing down here,  as beautiful as it is.  Long distances, limited supplies of parts.  Oh I also learned that the marina slip fees are more than twice the price of the crazy high USA west coast fees.  But anchorage is free or close to it.