On Jun 21, 10:40 am, Joe wrote:
On Jun 21, 6:56 am, Keith wrote:





On Jun 21, 12:47 am, "Mark R." wrote:

My experience was that Clear Lake (really just a backed up creek that
did not exist too many years ago) was too shalow to do any sailing.
They dredge very defined channels for the boats to navigate through.
When there is a strong North wind for several days, it literally blows
most of the water out of Clear Lake.

I think you will spend most of your sailing time in Galveston Bay.
Buy a navigation chart of the Bay and I think you will be shocked to
see so much water, and almost all of it is 8 feet deep or less. They
dredge a hugh channel down the middle of it for very large cargo
ships, and yet on either side of the channel, 8 feet. The tide is
about 1 1/2 feet.

We had a lot of work done in a boat yard called South Texas Yacht
Services. You can do as much work their on your own as you want.
Friendly, knowledgeable, and fair in respect to price.

Click here for a posting on our site about our experience therehttp://goreads.com/blog/2005/03/hot_days_in_houston.html

It is not a backed up creek! Sorry, I have a chart of the Galveston
Bay area from the 1800's, before the Civil War that shows Clear Lake.
Now the word "Clear" must have been thought up by a marketing person
trying to sell land, because it's anything but. The tidal range is
almost nothing here, but the North winds in winter literally do blow a
lot of water out of the lake. OTOH, the South winds blow it into the
lake in the Summer, so you can sail all over then. Just have to watch
the winds more than the tide. The Houston Ship channel goes through
Galveston bay, and is around 50' deep. As with any cruising area, get
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Indeed, Clearlake has been the same shape for thousands of years I'd
guess. It's rumored Jean Lafitte use to sail his captured ships up
into clearlake then taylor lake to hide them among the pine trees.

Hurricane Rita sure did blow all the water out. First it barely
flooded then within 3 hrs I was sitting on the hard...about a 9 ft
drop. Dropped so fast it caused parts of the bulkheads to cave in due
to heavy soaked land next to a dry lake.

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Yea, I stayed aboard during Rita... turned out to be a big nothing
around the lake, although the evacuation was a disaster in itself.
Everybody told me I was crazy... I mentioned that I had my diesel
generator going (marina turned the power off two days earlier) with
enough fuel for a month, 360 gallons of fresh water and a watermaker,
lots of food, beer, rum... sat there watching all the poor folks on
the freeways. Now who's crazy? ;-)

Oh yea, the week after Clara Harris ran over her husband (3 times by
the way), one boater killed another one in the Hilton marina over a
bounced check. We were wondering what they were smoking over there???

Danforth's (and Fortress') are the perfect anchors for Clear Lake,
Galveston bay and most of the coast around here. Mud bottom.