Whats with the Clear Lake Area
 

Are the days of the boat up watering hole on the decline?
No more Beach Club, No more Tiki Bar, hope the Turtle Club hangs on. Will the high rise development of Clear Lake spell the end of the affordable Marina, for that matter Marinas in general? Are we all going to be in dry stack in a few years??

seabrook is gone????


Turle club isn't going anywhere i hope:ernaehrung004:

It is not looking too good. From what I understand Endeavour has bought the Beach Club and surrounding apts. I don't know what the master plan is. We hope they put in a couple of boater friendly restaurants. Tiki bar is now or was Barracuda Beach club. I have not been up that way in a while, is it still open? It has changed names 2 or 3 time in the last couple of years. I have heard that Endeavour Marina is going to do a major rebuild of the marina to be more user friendly with docks and dump and a better t-head to break up the waves coming in. It gets rough in there during the weekends. That is the main problem with the Clear Lake area and Galveston Bay. Other than Outriggers, Turtle Club, and Top Water, there are no destinations to boat to. Galveston Harbor is not much. Where else do you go. They screwed up Nassau Bay for rafting. Red Fish island is okay. There are no beaches. I think we will spend more time towing the boat to Destin, Fl.

inless you have the money Landrys has.....It would be hard not to accept the realestate money being offered.... only a matter of time on Conroe as well:(:(

Greed driven.

My real estate friends tell me it is " extremely easy to sell waterfront property". So what do enterprising future millionaires who don't give a rats azz about the locals do? They put up a high rise so EVERYBODY GETS A waterfrront view! Brilliant, isn't it? Never mind the ambiance of the past. We all know and love the beach fronts of Miami, Acapulco, and Grand Cayman with their elbow to elbow multistorys and real down home feelings. Crime and Mafia free, these developments are the wave of the future. Embrace it!!! There will be a total of 11 high rises by Endeavor on Clear Lake if they stick to the original plan.

I'm bored with boating in Clear Lake. The only time i have fun when we go down there is at night at Lances's.

Endeavor 1 is almost complete except marina in front isn't started. Endeavor Parkside is started where old dry storage was. It is geared more toward 1 bedroom sites probably for NASA folks. Endeavor Marker 1 that bought the beach club will be a high rise office building, another high rise condo, restaurants, and botique shopping. Just as you enter the channel going out before Sundance Grill is a twin high rise condo that is already started also. I live on the water down here and for one, I enjoy the high rise stuff. I go to Ft. Lauderdale and Miami every chance we get. I like boating to nice marinas with restaurants, night clubs, etc. and then just ilding back home late at night - beats driving a car. I think Endeavor has a website that shows their developments. They are also starting one across from Moody's on I45 side of Offat's Bayou with 1200 slips. Tommy

Tommy how's the boat doing? BTW I'm a rural-lovin' kinda guy...

Topps sent an e-mail today that Barracuda Beach Club is no more. Seabrook Beach club is officially closed, too.

I don't mind the inevitable just so long as it stays somewhat boater friendly.

Ran with Guy, Frank, and Chris S. (in his new to him 1999 42' Fountain) to Red Fish for the day. Then we ran to Nassau Bay and rafted to Craig E., Mike M. and Dan in their cruisers til late. It was a good day of boating for all. I was impressed by the way the 42 Fountain didn't rock back and fourth with waves hittting it while anchored. Good heavy boat! T

It not only the places on the water but the hi-performance boating crowd is getting older and buying cruisers like Craig E. Barry A. just got back into a Formula cruiser. What is the world comming too. I am hooking up the AT on Tuesday and heading to FL for the winter. Will be back around April.

We did have a couple of good runs this year. Rock the Lake was good and so was Ed's.

I guess I'm just old fashioned in that respect. I prefer:

1-beaches to pelican and seagull sheitted pavement

2-waterfront clubs that welcome, not shun the performance engine speedboats

3-low population density vs. traffic jams, freeways, smog, crowded stores and restaurants

4-local folks who grew up together or near each other, with similar values to moneyed retirees from NewYork, Philidelphia, Chicago or the midwest moving to the balmy south with their disdain for southern ways

And I don't like:

5-developers who carefully calculate and do market analysis to see just how tiny they can make a "luxury" waterfront condo with how few square footage to still sell for "the $400's to over $2million..." Making 10-30X their investment capital back selling mom and pop 800-1000 sq. ft. for their life savings

6-developers who buy up all the land with the public boat launches forcing the price to just even launch a boat higher and higher(happening in Conroe right now), Or closing them to the public altogether

7-buying up all the gas stations in a region to price fix gas with no competition(large areas in Florida)

8-conversion of large waterways to no wake or no noise zones(Lake Tahoe, Lake George) BECAUSE OF ALL THE HIGH RISES AND DEVELOPMENT

WELL STATED:: Boating as we know it is in a state of flux,
it will never be what it once was. However, that could be a
good or a bad thing? I do know that it will drive up the cost
of recreational boating. Just look at whats happend over
the past five years. Cost of boats, maint, slippage and insurance have grown more in the last five then in the previous 15 years. Does this mean that only the elitist snobs will be on the water?. \\ God help us, Now I bid you adue
as I partake in my Cuban smoke and indulge in my nightly bottle of Kristal

What happened up in Nassau Bay? It used to be a great place to raft off. Now there are signs up all over saying no rafting off within 300 (?) feet of shore.

what is with the Clear Lake area???

your still gay:evilb:

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