When we were there in early May there were only 4 balls visible on the surface in front of Ivans and two of them no longer had painters. The ground tackle is still on the bottom from the old balls (9 in total) - lots of chain - and it is therefore dangerous to anchor in this area unless you know exactly where the old tackle is. It was just too difficult to maintain the balls - boats constantly damaging them and most "guests" just used them as day balls and headed to the Soggy end of the bay not even frequenting Ivan's. Too many boats and far too much dangerous behavior there now.