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Freeport Harbor, TX Daily Water Report — October 5, 2026

Freeport Harbor gets a qualified green light today: best for sailing and diving on the scorecard, workable for boating, fishing, and kayaking if you treat the gusts and short-period chop with proper respect. This is not a glassy-water day; it is a “pick your window, secure the loose gear” day. The NNE wind is running around 12 knots, with gusts reaching the mid-20s and the strongest gusts forecast near 5 AM. Seas are 0.9 m with a quick 4.15-second period, including 0.7 m wind waves at just over three seconds. That short spacing can make the ride feel busier than the headline wave height suggests, particularly for smaller boats and paddlers. Conditions ease toward evening, when the forecast’s calmest wave height is about 0.72 m near 10 PM, though daylight ends at 7:05 PM. For anglers, the more useful daylight timing is the 8:14-10:14 AM solunar major period, with a second major period after dark from 8:14-10:14 PM. The tide falls from a 0.73 m high at 1:51 AM toward a 0.12 m low at 5:39 PM, so expect increasingly shallow-water constraints through the afternoon. Stable pressure near 1015 hPa and no rain window help the fishing outlook, but wind keeps the score at a moderate 6/10 rather than turning it into a layup. Diving leads at 7.8/10, supported by warm 28.8 C marine water and the available conditions used by the model; that is a suitability estimate, not a visibility guarantee. Atmospheric visibility is forecast at 14.5 km, which says nothing definitive about underwater clarity. Sailing rates 7.4/10, with enough breeze to work with but a meaningful gust spread. Boating is 6.6/10 and kayaking 6/10, both held back by wind, chop, and current. Compared with October 4, winds are stronger and boating, kayaking, fishing, and diving scores have all slipped, while sailing is essentially steady. Tuesday and Wednesday look smaller, at 0.5-0.8 m waves; seas build again Thursday into Friday, peaking around 1.2-1.3 m. Best bet: sail the morning with a reef-ready plan, then let the falling tide and gusty chop have the last word.