Finding a Marina with boat slips meeting you and your boat's needs can be a demanding task. There is a bit of advice that will help you find your next boat slip. The first is to know your boats dimensions without them you will not be able to ensure you rent the right size boat slip. Makes perfect sense right. What you will need to now are your boat's width, height and draft. 


Now the next piece of the puzzle is to know the accessibility to your boat slip. You need to know are there any obstacle that will prevent you from getting to your boat and the water in which you intend to travel. A few things to look out for are bridges and what is the water level and will it impede you from getting under these bridges and back to your boat slip.


If you have a big boat don't forget to make sure you slip is in deep water. Some marinas and slip rental places do not offer deep water slip rentals. If you can't find a deep water slip you may have to put your boat in dry dock.


If you are renting a slip from a marina there is a whole slew of factors to consider.
For example do they offer:
• Does the facility have fresh water
• Electrical hookups
• Liveaboards allowed
• Fuel at marina
• Laundry
• Internet sccess
• Groceries
• Boating supplies
• 24 hour access
• Parking
• Security
• Showers
• Lodging for guest
• Bathrooms
• Work area
• Clubhouse
• Restaurants

Waterpoint Marina offers all of these amenities. 

If you are looking for slip for you boat. 

Contact us at:
(936) 788-2628 (BOAT)
15264 Highway 105 West, 
Montgomery, TX 77356
www.waterpointmarina.com
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Biography

Let’s just get it out of the way right up front: In the five years between his last and most successful album yet, Good Times, and his new Dualtone Records release, Beautiful Day, Charlie Robison got divorced from his wife Emily (of The Dixie Chicks). So it’s only natural to assume that this is his “divorce album,” which is not altogether untrue.

But as with all devoted songwriters, Robison writes from a perspective that draws from and speaks to larger matters and issues within human experience and life in these times. And as the title indicates, even if this album is to a notable degree about and informed by the end of his marriage, there’s something different and more at work here.

Beautiful Day is ultimately an album that chronicles the processes and resulting growth one goes through and finally the redemption to be found within such a major life event. And it reflects a change in approach is the way Robison writes his songs. “In the past most of my songs were stories written from a third-person perspective,” he explains. “This is the first album where I’m writing in the first person. It wasn’t like I did it by design; I didn’t have any choice.”

Hence Beautiful Day is a musical and emotional journey that travels through a vivid landscape of feelings and moods from certain places to other ones new and wholly different. Like such certified classics as Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks and Willie Nelson’s Phases & Stages, its narrative center is the end of Robison’s marriage. Yet unlike too many divorces, where rancor and pointed anger is a key part of the mix of feelings, this story is one of two people who love each other and their children, but due to their situations, themselves and the demands of their careers, the marriage is no longer tenable. And that’s what makes Beautiful Day another significant creative work about divorce with a different tale to tell than any other.

Robison’s divorce, which was finalized in August of last year, is by no means typical. “It was a completely amicable thing,” he explains. “We didn’t even have separate lawyers. We did the whole thing ourselves, and we get along better now than we had the last four years of our marriage. We hang out all the time,” he notes.

The distinctly different nature of this break-up is clear from the opening title track, with its upbeat vibe, tempo and theme, albeit tinted with a slightly sardonic edge. And by the time one reaches the final number, Robison’s decidedly Texan reading of Bruce Springsteen’s classic “Racing in the Streets,” an exhilarating sense of freedom and new beginnings is at hand.

In between one finds such compelling new Robison compositions as the psychedelically tinged “Yellow Blues,” the upbeat and spry “Feelin’ Good,” the emotionally stormy “If The Rain Don’t Stop,” the somber “Middle of the Night” and the kicking country-rock hoedown of “She’s So Fine.” As with his last album, Robison includes two numbers by one of his favorite songwriters, Keith Gattis, “Down Again” and “Reconsider,” both of which fit the album’s theme perfectly, as does Bobby Bare Jr.’s “Nothin’ Better to Do.” All told, it’s an album that takes the listener through a gamut of feelings that by its end leaves one wiser and more mature as well as wonderfully entertained.

Throughout his career, Charlie Robison has forged his own path within the country music world as well as the Lone Star music scene and popular music at large. He grew up in the small scenic town of Bandera in the Texas Hill country — known as “The Cowboy Capital of the World” — where his family has ranched the land for eight generations. Music wasn’t just a staple around the Robison household; from even before he could walk, Charlie would spend Saturday nights with his parents at The Cabaret, the local C&W dancehall in downtown Bandera. But the fare playing in the family home ran the gamut from rock’n’roll to singer-songwriters and much more. So it should come as no surprise that Charlie, his brother Bruce and sister Robyn Ludwyck all enjoy respected and critically acclaimed music careers as singers, songwriters and recording and performing artists.

While attending college at Southwestern Texas State University — now known as Texas State University, and the alma mater of George Strait and many other musicians on the Lone Star scene — Robison found he wasn’t cut out for academics, and a long held desire to try his hand at making music came bubbling to the surface. He managed to persuade his brother Bruce to also drop out of college, and the two headed to Austin.

The brothers Robison soon both landed in the band Chaparral, which in the late 1980s was a seminal act that seduced young generations of Texas to hit the dance floor to two-step, waltz and more, arm in arm in the old-school style, to a new sounds and style within the greater realms of country. It was ground zero for what became a thriving Austin scene rich with emerging talent by the 1990s. Charlie began writing songs in earnest, and after a stint in the popular Austin roots rocking combo Two Hoots and A Holler as well as a collection of local talents know as The Millionaire Playboys, he struck out on his own as an artist.

His 1995 debut album, aptly titled Bandera and released on the tiny Austin Vireo Records label, was a potent opening salvo that included such Robison favorites as the rowdy nightlife celebration “Barlight” and “Red Letter Day.” After a brief deal with a Nashville major label that ended because of his refusal to be artistically boxed-in and packaged as the latest hunky hat act, he signed with Sony Music’s Lucky Dog label and released two studio albums (1998’s Life of the Party and 2001’s Step Right Up, which hit the Top 40 of the country album chart) as well as two live recordings: Unleashed Live with brother Bruce and labelmate Jack Ingram from a tour the three did together and his own 2003 Live album that showcased Robison’s dynamic and hard-charging performing style which has made him a Lone Star State favorite and a popular national country-rock attraction.

In what now may seem rather ironic, Robison’s 2004 Dualtone label debut, Good Times, found him celebrating wedded and domestic contentment as a husband and father (of son Gus and twins Juliana and Henry). It enjoyed the best record sales of his career, and the video for "El Cerrito Place" was a Top 10 hit at CMT.

Beautiful Day promises to build upon and expand Robison’s public impact even further. But even if his divorce was amicable, the experience still wasn’t an easy one for him, as the end of any profound love is bound to be. “When I was writing this record, I was going through the quintessential divorce thing of living in a one-bedroom apartment in downtown San Antonio across from the bus station,” Robison recalls. “When it’s over, it’s over.”

Beautiful Day captures the panoply of feelings one experiences with the break-up of a marriage. “It goes through the range from, man, this sucks worse than anything in the whole world to, man, I’m really pulling out of this and really feel good. I’d be up and write a redemptive song like ‘Beautiful Day’ or ‘Feelin’ Good.’ And then I’d write something like ‘If the Rain Don’t Come Today,’ where the guy in the song wants to go out and have fun tonight, and then it fades into the reality of where you’re at on ‘In the Middle of the Night.’ You’re by yourself and you don’t feel as good as you did earlier. But I still tried to give it that Sinatra twist where even if it feels lonely and bleak, a girl walks in at the end, and you think, well, maybe my life isn’t quite over yet.”

Despite the high-profile fame of The Dixie Chicks, the Robisons managed to keep their separation and divorce out of the tabloids and gossip columns. “Although the order of the songs on the album is more musical than following any storyline, as you hear the record you’ll know what was going on with the divorce,” Charlie admits.

Beautiful Day is also a musical departure for Robison as his first self-produced album, recorded at his brother Bruce’s Austin studio, Premium Recording Service. The vibrant electric guitar work throughout is by artist in his own right as well as producer Charlie Sexton, while the acoustic guitars that fill out the sound are by Robert Earl Keen’s guitarist and producer Rich Brotherton. Longtime Robison sideman Kim Deschamps brings the colors of his steel guitar and mandolin to the mix, while the bottom end is held down with grooving solidity by the veteran rhythm section of Robison’s backing band The Enablers, bassist Scott Esbeck and drummer Keith Robinson.

“I’ve wanted for a long time to make a record that sounds like a great American rock band,” explains Robison. And just as Beautiful Day closes one emotional chapter in his life and opens another, it’s also an album on which his always strong rock’n’roll leanings come to the fore to transcend his country roots, while also bringing them along, to create a sound that is simply great American music.

All told, it’s an album of deep and rich emotional and musical content that anyone who has ever lived, loved and lost can find themselves within as well as experience what Charlie Robison has been through. And all of us, the artist included, find a redemption and the prospect of new beginnings by the time the record ends, and find ourselves better, wiser and stronger thanks to it all.

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The Country genre today is one destined for the Dewey decimal system stretching on aisle after aisle with artists ranging from Hank Williams to Jewel. Establishing a pleasantly unique sound amid this influential mass is not an easy task for any artist, yet its one Cody Johnson Band has accomplished in a respectable way. Fusing country and rock is no new concept, but rarely is it done to the quality by which Cody will soon be known. Cody and the band blend County and Rock; creating something new while still respecting the roots of both genres and styles. There are times their sound seems fit for Nashville radio and others it is unmistakably Texas Country/Red Dirt. The 23 year old artist’s freshly energetic blend uniquely bridges generation gaps between fans. At his concerts you will see teenagers and parents alike singing his songs side by side. Nowhere was this more apparent than when Cody was asked to play to 6000 students at the 2007 Texas FFA Convention in Corpus Christi by several adult fans of his in the FFA administration. Also worth mentioning is when Cody and the boys played several songs with presidential candidate Mike Huckabee at a campaign rally at Texas A&M University in College Station with Huckabee playing Bass.

Cody is making good connections with other talented musicians and has opened for successful artists such as, Kevin Fowler, Aaron Watson, Brandon Rhyder, Stoney LaRue, Zona Jones, Band of Heathens, Jason Allen, Bleu Edmonson, and several others, including Roger Creager. Roger, his band, and his administration all have taken a liking to Cody and the boys and seem to have taken them under their wing providing numerous opening and networking opportunities, advice and experience.

The energy and excitement Cody displays during a concert brings to mind legendary performers such as Garth Brooks, Chris Ledoux, and even Jim Morrison. He specializes in getting the crowd involved and drawing them into the show and fans seem to all pile up at the front of the stage begging to get closer. On the opposite end of the spectrum are the intimate acoustic performances this group gives. With Cody at the center, Matt on one side picking lead and singing harmony and Nathan on the other side playing what seems like an infinite number of sounds on an African Djembe; catching an acoustic show with this group rivals an MTV unplugged session. They still play their own music but also divulge into covers ranging from Hank Williams to Seether, even applying that signature sound to the covers they play.

Cody has been playing guitar, singing and writing since he was twelve years old. Over his 23 years he has written over 200 songs. His entire family is talented in music but Cody is the first Johnson to try to make a living at it. Cody and Nathan met in Huntsville while Nathan was finishing his Marketing degree in January 2006 and they started the band in May of 2006 with Cody’s dad Carl Johnson on Bass. They played as a 3 piece for a year and released their first album together titled Black & White Label. With this album, things started picking up and they decided to add a lead guitar player so Cody turned to his old high school buddy, Matt Rogers. With the addition of Matt, they decided to record a new album at a live venue. So in May of 2007 they recorded the Live and Rocking at Shenanigans Album. Seeing the popularity of this album, Carl realized that they had grown out of just playing for fun on the weekends and was forced to quit the band for his career and family commitments. The guys put an ad on Craig’s List for a bass player which was answered by Danny Salinas solidifying the four piece for another year.

In September 2008 the band embarked on their first professionally produced album. They hooked up with producer Keith Davis in Austin and recorded Six Strings One Dream, which was released September 2nd 2009 with their debut single “Another Try” reaching the Texas Music Chart only weeks after release climbing to #28. Their second single “Nobody to Blame” climbed up to #7 and their third single “Pray for Rain” is already in the top 10 just weeks after release. What’s important to note is that the band financially backed this entire album from idea to finished product and even promotion with only their personal money through savings accounts, personal loans, gig money and part time jobs.

Members of Cody Johnson Band start with Nathan Reedy on drums. Nathan’s taste in rock continually shapes the songs Cody writes and is largely responsible for their country and rock blended “signature sound.” In fact, a majority of their songs are written and arranged in an “on the fly/improv” manner on Cody’s back porch with Cody singing and playing guitar and Nathan playing the Djembe. Nathan’s influence is most apparent in songs he and Cody wrote together such as “Take the Devil Home,” “A Bottle and a Bible,” “Texas Kind of Way,” and the song the new album got its title from and the bands first Top 10 hit “Nobody to Blame.” The prodigy Matt Rogers’ mathematical and systematic electric guitar playing gives each song its flavor, while his harmony vocals flawlessly blend with Cody’s voice. Danny Salinas on bass shakes the walls with the grooves he and Nathan hammer out in the pocket. 2010 along with the release of Six Strings One Dream has brought on additional key members. One is Jody Bartula on Fiddle. Jody began playing at the age of 7 and has shared the stage with artists such as Daryl Dodd, Jarrod Birmingham, Zona Jones, Django Walker and many more. For the past year he has been playing for Texas singer/songwriter Jason Allen touring regionally and in Europe. The second is the power house addition of Jeff Smith on lead guitar. Jeff started playing guitar at 8 and performing live at 9 years old as a singer/songwriter. He lived in Nashville for 3 years as a recording artist for Showtime Records where he learned crucial fundamentals about the music business and what it takes you to be a successful musician. His talent has been demonstrated in the presence of the industry’s most familiar artists such as Merle Haggard, George Jones, Tracy Byrd, Jason Aldene, Mark Chestnut, Gary Stewart and Asleep At The Wheel just to name a few. For the last 10 years he has been traveling North America and overseas with Nashville Recording Artist Zona Jones until recently committing to the CJB full time. The calculated mixture of these 6 members and the talent and experience they bring with them has been the vital part of the bands recent quick and upward movement.

You can hear Cody Johnson Band’s music, browse photos, buy merchandise and see their schedule at www.thecodyjohnsonband.com, and www.myspace.com/codyjohnsonband. You can purchase digital copies of their music through itunes. Their music can also be bought on ourtracks.com where they are always in the top 3 selling artists. Be sure to call your local radio stations to request their music, or log on to radiofreetexas.org and bigstar97.com. They shouldn’t be hard to find because no matter where you go in Texas lately, there’s a lot of talk and buzz about Cody Johnson Band. As Andrew Griffin from the Red Dirt Roper described them, “A relatively new face on the Texas/Red Dirt scene that is bound to gain increasing attention in 2010.

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Come on down and enjoy some FREE live music this friday! Buster Jiggs is going to put on a show ...
your not gonna want to miss it!

BIO
Originally formed by now husband and wife team, Scott Muennink(drums/songwriter) and Kristin (singer/songwriter), the then garage band played their first show on the infamous Executive Surf Club stage in 1999. Cody Braun and David Abeyta of Reckless Kelly produced Buster Jiggs' self-titled album, which had a few Texas Music Charting songs, and sat at #3 on the XM Radio's Country chart in 2005. In 2007 Kristin gracefully and commandingly became the voice of Buster Jiggs, debuting her vocal talents on the EP Miserably Happy; which was produced by Joseph Deeb, formally of Micky and The Motorcars. He also produced the latest album, Smith release, Heartache Jubilee (2009) which was the band’s first album in four years. At the end of 2010 Kristin and Scott teamed up with some old friends and veterans in the scene, lead guitarist Coby Wier (Rusty Wier, Bleu Edmondson) and bassist Jimmy McFeeley (Reckless Kelly, George Devore). So be on the lookout for Buster Jiggs in 2011, they put on a show and have a sound that you will not want miss.

"Kristin offers a rich, full-bodied Red Dirt Vocal performance that is never forced. Texas music rarely offers exceptional female solo artists or lead singers, and Kristin's fine vocals set Buster Jiggs apart from the current crop of Texas Bands." -CountryChart.com

"Listen to the songs "She's Gonna Break Your Heart", "Pretty White Wings", and "Heart of Mine" you will hear great vocals along with great lyrics, and a band that knows how to play a song" -TheExaminer.com

The band is named after a character from the poem "The Sierry Petes (or Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail) written by Gale Gardner in 1917, from which the band's logo of a boot wearing, guitar wielding devil was created.

Bio was provided by Buster Jigg's MySpace page.

Alright all you scallywags and wanna be boaters we're going to start your knot tying education today. Just follow along with these simple knots and you will be able to secure your boat like a pro.

Two Half Hitches
Reliable knot is easy to tie for mooring, or docking.
You can also use this knot for tying the bumpers to your pontoon railing.


How to pull it off:
1. Pass the end of a rope around a post or other object.
2. Wrap the short end of rope under and over the long part of rope, pushing the end down through the loop. This is a half hitch.
3. Repeat on the long rope, below first half hitch, and draw tight.

Sheet Bend

Reliable knot for joining two ropes of any size.

Widely used knot for boating.

• Sheet Bend is for joining two ropes
• Use it when towing another boat, to tie your rope to theirs.

• Use it to make a quick repair of a broken or cut ski rope.

• Use it to tie extra rope to the anchor when a longer rope is needed.



Bowline

Does not jam or slip when tied properly.

Widely used by fire and rescue teams.




How to pull it off:
1. Make the overhand loop with the end held toward you, then pass the end through the loop. 
2. Now, pass the end up behind the standing part, then down through the loop again. 
3. Draw tight. 

Cleat Hitch
es
Two ways to tie a rope to a cleat.





Anchor Bend

This knot is used to secure a rope or a line to an anchor.




How to pull it off:
1. Pass two loops through a ring.
2. Place the free end around the long rope.
3. Pass the free end through loops.
4. Complete by making a half hitch.

Clove Hitch

An easy way to tie a rope around a post.
This knot can work loose, so it is best to finish off with 1 or 2 Half Hitches.




How to pull it off: 
1. Make a turn with the rope around the object and over itself.
 2. Take a second turn with the rope around the object.
3. Pull the end up under the second turn so it is between the rope and the object; tighten by pulling on both ends.

Figure Eight

This knot is for the end of a rope, so you can hold on.



How to pull it off:
1. Make an underhand loop, bringing the end around and over the standing part.
2. Pass the rope end under, then up through the loop.
3. Draw tight.

Whipping the End of a Rope

This will Bind the end of a rope.



How to pull it off:
1. Make a small long loop along the rope. 
2. Wind the line around the rope, close and tight.
3. Feed the end through the long loop that is exsposed.
4. Pull both ends of the line tight and also pull the two lines under the wrapped line.

Braiding a Loop with Twisted Rope

Now you can make your own docking lines
This does not have to be perfect.
Just weave each 
of the three rope ends one after the other till you get about 6" of braid.



For more knot tying advice you can check out this animated knot tying website it's easy to follow along and learn how to tie number of knots.

http://www.animatedknots.com/indexboating.php

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HOUSTON — Wednesday morning will start cold but starting in the afternoon temperatures will rise, setting a warming trend for the rest of the week. “[It will be] 30 first thing in the morning,” Should warm up close to 60 degrees everywhere … will look nice with sunshine all day long.” In addition to shedding your heavy coat, after Wednesday you won't have to wrap your plants at night.

HOUSTON— The beautiful sunshine is on the way out and rain is now back in the forecast. Monday is expected to be a soggy, cold day. Monday will see cold temperatures with lows in the 40s and expected highs in the mid-60s. Rain showers may begin in the morning and increase to 60 percent by the end of the day. Things may get interesting as the week progresses. Cold air will rush in and, mixed with all the moisture, we could see sleet by the end of the week.

Tuesday (29, Dec 2009): Partly cloudy early in the morning then becoming cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the morning. Showers likely in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 40s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent in the morning increasing to 60 percent in the afternoon. Showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent. Wednesday (30, Dec 2009): Cloudy until late afternoon then becoming partly cloudy. Rain likely in the morning...Then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent in the morning Decreasing to 40 percent in the afternoon Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Thursday (31, Dec 2009): Partly cloudy,  Patchy fog early in the morning. Highs in the lower 60s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph  partly cloudy  lows in the mid 30s. New Years Day (1st, Jan 2010): Mostly clear. Cooler. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the lower 30s. Mostly clear, Cooler,  Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the lower 30s. Saturday (2nd, Jan 2010): Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s,  Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers,  Lows around 40. Sunday(3rd, Jan 2010): Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers,  Highs in the lower 50s. Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers. Lows in the mid 30s.

HOUSTON - Startling residents and weather experts, the Texas city set a record Friday for the earliest snowfall ever, prompting a winter storm warning for the state's southeast region. The Houston area expected up to an additional 2 inches of snow Friday evening as a powerful surge delivered cold air down from the Rockies. Some areas could receive 3 to 5 inches of snow. How ever Houston and surrounding areas braced for more than snow: Rain, freezing, rain, sleet and hail were expected to hit the area hard. Traffic delays Officials braced for the worst and started preparing for icy roads and treacherous driving conditions by sending sanding trucks out to coat roads and airport runways.