On Jun 7, 2:35 pm, Don W wrote:
Joe wrote:
You in Port O'Conner Don?

No, but close. We're in Palacios up on the
northern side of the bay right beside the
shipyard. We drive in to Port Lavaca for
breakfast a lot of Saturdays.

Nice place..Worked crewboats out of there for many years, Port Lavaca,
and Rockport, Aransas pass, Mansfield.

You know when coming in from offshore you have the right port because
the jetties look just like a wine bottle on radar ;0). Once I had a
deckhead get all his fingers chopped off...sucked into a turbo. Had to
run him into Port O'Conner for a waiting Medical helo.

He started going into shock about the time I hit the jetties. Lucky we
had a high tide because I ran the flats directly from the jetties to
the Port O'Conner ICW breakwaters. I only had 4 ft of water under a
140 ft boat that drew 7.5 ft sitting still. At night.

Now that takes good local knowledge ;-) The
lowest reading I see on the chart anywhere along
that path is 7', but there are a couple of 8'
places too. Would've been pretty easy to get stuck.



Joe

Don W.

There were a couple 55-60 ft boats working Port O'Cconner that would
cut the corner all the time. I knew it could be done, just glad we did
not fall off plane. Until that day it was never worth the risk to
shave off 15-20 min running time.

Last harvest moon regetta we sailed we stopped in Port O'Conner and
meet a fishing guide coming in from the west with a boat load of Red's
and Specks he caught just your side of rattlesnake island. Also meet
an interesting local there called the Joker. I noted in my logs this
quote from the Joker "My neighbors cat was 17 when I shot it" ...

Joe