Yacht owners are abandoning vessels in San Francisco's Bay Area when they get too old and costly to repair - and hide their identify by scratching off registration numbers

Many of the abandoned boats are being commandeered as makeshift shelter in communities known as 'anchor-outs,' while others set adrift and eventually wreck or sink.

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