If your plans change or the weather or mechanical issues force a change you have made a donation to boatyball! You can still go somewhere else and there are still first come first serve balls. The option to anchor is still available. I often don’t figure out where I am going for the night until after lunch. I also have noted on two different occasions boatyballs going unused at Cooper as the sun sets. I suspect this was probably boats unable to get off the dock for one reason or another on the first day of the charter. The balls are wasted at that point.