On 15 Sep 2008 11:27:01 -0500, Dave wrote:

The area on the
North end just south of High Island provides very decent protection. I
moored a boat there for several years.

So did I back in the early 70s - Bob Taylor's old "Offshore yacht
Club", followed by G&G Marine next to the ferry dock or something like
that. It was wicked rough there in a nor'easter or strong southerly,
and you had to watch out for the sunken barge, and the shoal behind
Rat Island.