USCG warning on shoaling in the moriches

[Shaps]

 

[Shaps]

I don't understand why they let it get worse and worse every year and don't consider dredging this area.

 

[Pirate Lady]

https://www.maritime-executive.com/magazine/dredging-harbor-taintenance-tax

 

[Pirate Lady]

Old article, but gives the basic answer. Congress wont fund.

 

[Shaps]

Post Hurricane Sandy a bunch of projects got greenlighted.
I guess it's more about commercial navigation rather than recreational..

Thanks @Pirate Lady

 

[Pirate Lady]

We had a MD senator Barb Mikulski, short-shit always stood next to Presidents in pics. Pit bull, very powerful on committees. That woman fought hard for the Bay. We always got funding for dredging. Bay is so shallow without constant dredging it wouldn’t be navigable.

 

[Tripsdad]

Thanks Dave.

 

[ErikE]

Not being an ocean boater, I've never heard of shoaling. I had to look it up...learn something new everyday if you want ot.

 

[bmac]

The only real solution to the Moriches Bay (and Moriches Inlet) shoaling is a reconfigured jetty to prevent the litoral drift of sand that occurs naturally and is exacerbated during every Nor'easter. That is very unlikely to ever happen in today's hyper sensitive environmental arena. Unlike the jetty's along the east coast, Long Island some how missed the boat on that approach (no pun intended). I was not able to get through that area with the 52 or 58 (and neither was able to get under the Shinnecock RR bridge except at low tide which meant waiting 3-4 hours after the tide I needed to get through Moriches Bay) so I always had to head SE at buoy 14 (west of the shoaling) and out Moriches Inlet (which could be a real treat) or head back west and go out FI Inlet (also a real treat), which added 60 miles and 200 gallons of fuel burn to my trips east and north.

 

[Shaps]

The only real solution to the Moriches Bay (and Moriches Inlet) shoaling is a reconfigured jetty to prevent the litoral drift of sand that occurs naturally and is exacerbated during every Nor'easter. That is very unlikely to ever happen in today's hyper sensitive environmental arena. Unlike the jetty's along the east coast, Long Island some how missed the boat on that approach (no pun intended). I was not able to get through that area with the 52 or 58 (and neither was able to get under the Shinnecock RR bridge except at low tide which meant waiting 3-4 hours after the tide I needed to get through Moriches Bay) so I always had to head SE at buoy 14 (west of the shoaling) and out Moriches Inlet (which could be a real treat) or head back west and go out FI Inlet (also a real treat), which added 60 miles and 200 gallons of fuel burn to my trips east and north.

Thanks Brian. I hear you on the "hyper sensitive environmental climate" we find ourselves in.
Yeah, heading east to west hampton, i'm out the FI inlet and in Shinnecock to double back. an extra 20 miles or so
Annoying but waaay better than the though of running aground!

 

[jdebello]

The only real solution to the Moriches Bay (and Moriches Inlet) shoaling is a reconfigured jetty to prevent the litoral drift of sand that occurs naturally and is exacerbated during every Nor'easter. That is very unlikely to ever happen in today's hyper sensitive environmental arena. Unlike the jetty's along the east coast, Long Island some how missed the boat on that approach (no pun intended). I was not able to get through that area with the 52 or 58 (and neither was able to get under the Shinnecock RR bridge except at low tide which meant waiting 3-4 hours after the tide I needed to get through Moriches Bay) so I always had to head SE at buoy 14 (west of the shoaling) and out Moriches Inlet (which could be a real treat) or head back west and go out FI Inlet (also a real treat), which added 60 miles and 200 gallons of fuel burn to my trips east and north.

That is why I moved my boat out of Patchogue to Montauk. Every trip to the east was a battle of either the threat of running aground in MB or running west to FI Inlet and then back.. just was not worth it anymore. Completely different type of boating out there in Montauk..
BTW bmac.. small world, I grew up in Holbrook.

 

[Espos4]

Here’s an aerial shot from today.

 

[tdschafer]

This channel shoals over every year. And they seem to dredge it every 3rd year. What they need to do is move the channel to follow the west & east cuts by the inlet then shoot all the way north (on the east side) before coming back down to buoy 30. This is the same route that Sea Tow has escorted me through several times over the past 8 years or so. It appears to be a naturally occurring channel, unlike the straight one that the Army Corps of Engineers