Captain's Log TMCA Spring Fling 2016 Pleasure Island Texas The crew of S/V Imagine has maintained a vessel that is ready to sail. Even still being attached to a dock while we work and finish projects until she is ready to cast the lines off. We have done extensive sailing in Galveston Bay, completed a trip to nowhere into the gulf, but so far no passage in the gulf. There is an annual trip called Spring Fling from our area to Port Arthur Texas. We were able to log 110 miles offshore in the 2 trips. Yea I know, but it was a start with 2 different types of days. One had very confused seas, and the other was a laid back sail. Pleasure Island history: The U. S. Corps of Engineers created Pleasure Island from deposits dredged while constructing the Port Arthur Canal, completed in 1899, and the Sabine Neches Intracoastal Waterway, completed in 1908. In 1913 a dance hall and roller coaster were constructed. In 1941 a private investor built the Pleasure Pier Ballr