free island guy thoughts

Central Texas had had a lot of rain over 100 people had died in Kerrville due to flooding. So I thought perhaps Decker lake had been filled by the rain.  My friend Kai had taken his shallow draft trimaran out to the lake for sale. He was able to launch his boat easily but his boat is basically a canoe with amas in a trimaran design. So I drove out there on July 15th 2025. I parked outside the park and I walked down to the lake to do my survey and this is what I found. In this photo you can see that the water is about 4 ft below the dock beside the ramp  on the east side of the ramp there's actually a grass growing in the water of the ramp. The Eastern ramp was even worse as the city has dumped gravel at the base of the ramp to keep motor boaters from launching their boats only a light shallow draft boat can be launched from this ramp such as a kayak or canoe.  so I will not be planning to go sailing on the Decker lake.  The reason that the l...

It's been about a month since I last visited Granger Lake and the last time I was at the Western extremity of the lake or it seems to be pretty shallow today I am at Granger Lake friendship Park ramp which is a well appointed Park most of the facilities are closed for the winter but the ramp is open it seems to be well watered there is no doc near the ramp to tie off while you park the truck but I think I like this place the best of all cuz when you're in the lake you're going to have good wind from all directions that's about all I can say it's a great seems like a great place to go sailing. please forgive the fuzzy pictures The Parking lot and a view of the northern end of the lake. Shots of the ramp Later when I tried to go sailing at Granger lake with Khy and another fellow who I met on Craigslist when we got there we set up the mast, but Khy decided that the wind was too high at 25mph, so we didn't actually g...