‘Lost at Sea’ Profiles Sausalito’s ‘Anchor-out’ Community

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Off the coast of Sausalito lies one of the nation’s oldest unhoused communities. Known as “anchor-outs,” residents live aboard makeshift boats moored in the bay, carving out a precarious existence. For nearly a decade, author Joe Kloc immersed himself in their world, documenting their struggles and growing tensions with shoreline residents determined to push them out. We talk to Kloc about his new book “Lost At Sea: Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America.” Guests: Joe Kloc, senior editor, Harper's Magazine - author of “Lost At Sea: Poverty and Paradise Collide at the Edge of America” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:35.9	In today from Mina Kim, coming up on forum, everyone knows Sassolito for its million-dollar views and waterfront mansions.
1:40.8	But just offshore, anchored in Richardson Bay, a whole other world exists. A floating community of artists, outcasts, and unhoused residents lives on
1:45.7	abandoned boats, forming a very fragile community. But the city wants them gone. We'll talk with
1:51.4	Joe Clark about his new book Lost at Sea, where poverty and privilege collide and where people
1:56.8	are fighting to hold on to home. Stay with us. That's next right after this news.
2:11.5	Music people are fighting to hold on to home. Stay with us. That's next right after this news. This is Forum. I'm Leslie McClurg. I'm in today from Mina Kim, and I've always had a
2:16.8	lifelong dream of living on the water.
2:19.6	And every time I drive near Sausalito, I kind of romanticize what it would be like to live out there.
2:25.4	And for years, a really eclectic group of people, some artists, some veterans, some folks who were just down on their luck, lived on very weathered sailboats with some of the best
2:35.9	views of the bay. And they built a very tight-knit community on the water known as the anchorouts.
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