Leadbetter Beach in Santa Barbara is $250 a year to keep the boat on the beach from April 1 to October 31 - dates may have changed this year. After that it needs to be off the beach.

We looked to do the same for an area in Ventura and came up with a cost of $225 per year with a limit to 12 boats due to the area they were going to allow for this. This too was going to need an "off the beach by date" as this is the staging area for the yearly harbor dredging.

The biggest part of the expense is the insurance we needed to have for liability.

We abandoned the project when we couldn't get enough people interested.