Selene
Copyright© 2022 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 14
I’d like to say that Freeport lost it’s charm and got boring ... so we left.
What actually happened? Some of us got a little rowdy and we were requested to vacate. Before we left I polled the crews:
“What do you want to do?”
All five trailer sailors and half of the attending club members wanted to go back to Galveston. I wanted to keep going south west. My crew was a little more mature than the yahoos and the 11 of us decided that continuing sounded like fun.
The Gulf coast trends south. The coast has a lot of west but it has south in it. After Matagordo the coast is more south trending and a tiny bit west.
South of the Brazos River mouth, the shore line started changing. Because the German submersibles started sinking ships in the Gulf, the Coast Watch road was set up during WWI. The road was still there but the houses were getting few and farther between. At the San Bernard River mouth, the ICW gets close to the Gulf.
Some little ways west of the San Bernard River mouth is Caney Creek and west of that civilization loses its civil. Sailing along the costal sand islands it’s fairly easy to see where there used to be an outlet to the Gulf.
During severe storms, the sand moves. Where there was an inlet is gone and a new inlet opens somewhere in the islands. After Matagordo Beach and the mouth of the Colorado River it is possible to discern the remains of the old World War II coast watchers road and the three former air bases.
But that’s all by the bye. The meat in the informational sandwich is ... the Lagoon 42 has the bells and whistles that smugglers need ... side scan sonar, forward looking sonar, depth finder and two radars.
Short range radar looks at things within a couple of miles and does it in great detail.
The long range radar sees what’s out there up to 25 miles.
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