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Texas coast: Galveston Bay to Corpus Christi

Clear Lake, Kemah and Seabrook hold one of the largest concentrations of pleasure boats in the country, at the head of a Galveston Bay only six feet deep on average and crossed by the ships of the Houston Ship Channel. Red Fish Island for a night in mid-bay, Offatts Bayou behind Moody Gardens, ten feet of water and plenty of wakes at weekends. The Intracoastal, 12 feet by 125, then runs south to Freeport, Port O'Connor, Rockport, where Hurricane Harvey came ashore in 2017, Port Aransas and the 560 slips of the Corpus Christi marina. The tide is small: the summer south-easterly and the winter northers set the water level.

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HarbourUnited States
Kemah Boardwalk Marina
4.6
Marina of 414 berths at Kemah on Galveston Bay, at the mouth of Clear Lake in Texas, between Houston and Galveston Island.
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HarbourUnited States
Waterford Harbor Marina
5.0
Marina on the north shore of Clear Lake at Kemah, Texas, inside the cut linking the lake to Galveston Bay.
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HarbourHouston, United States
Watergate Marina
3.9
Large marina on the south shore of Clear Lake at Kemah, Texas, part of the Watergate Yachting Center.
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HarbourSeabrook, United States
Lakewood Yacht Club
Private member-owned yacht club at the north-east corner of Clear Lake, Seabrook, Texas, on 38 acres about 3 miles east of NASA Space Center.
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AnchorageUnited States
Redfish Island
3.7
Man-made island in central Galveston Bay, Texas, used as an anchorage with a sandy mud bottom and depths of around 8 to 9 feet.
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HarbourUnited States
Galveston Yacht Basin
Full-service marina at Galveston, Texas, on the Galveston Ship Channel, with about 370 covered and 127 uncovered berths plus dry stack storage.
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AnchorageUnited States
Offatts Bayou
3.3
Anchorage in a bayou on the south side of Galveston Island, Texas, with sand and mud bottom and protection from the S and SW.
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HarbourGalveston, United States
Moody Gardens Marina
2.8
Small 18-berth marina on Offatts Bayou, Galveston Island, set against the Moody Gardens resort complex.
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HarbourFreeport, United States
Freeport Marina
Municipal marina on the Brazos River at Freeport, Texas, near the mouth of the river and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.
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HarbourPort O'Connor, United States
St Christopher's Marina
Marina in the centre of Port O'Connor on Matagorda Bay, at the south-west corner of the bay.
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HarbourFulton, United States
Fulton Harbor
Harbour on Aransas Bay in downtown Fulton, north of Rockport on the Texas mid-coast.
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HarbourRockport, United States
Rockport Yacht Club
Members' yacht club on Navigation Circle at Rockport, on Aransas Bay along the Texas Gulf coast.
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HarbourPort Aransas, United States
Port Aransas Boat Harbor
City-run harbour, the Dennis Dreyer Municipal Harbor, on a peninsula off the Corpus Christi Ship Channel at Port Aransas, Texas.
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HarbourPort Aransas, United States
Island Moorings Yacht Club & Marina
Wind-protected marina at the head of Piper Channel on Mustang Island, Port Aransas, Texas, with deep-water access to the Gulf.
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HarbourCorpus Christi, United States
Corpus Christi Marina
Municipal marina on the downtown waterfront of Corpus Christi, Texas, on Corpus Christi Bay. The only major downtown marina on the Texas coast.