Fire Island Inet Closed to Boats!!!

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http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/coast-guard-boaters-to-avoid-fire-island-inlet-1.4021360
 
I passed thru there last Friday at high tide following 3 Captree party boats. I had plenty of water until I got to buoy #4, Holy Sh&%. I was going around 5mph and the depth finder read 2 feet under the boat (that is a total of 5 feet). I was traveling to the north shore and planned to return in a few weeks, but will now travel via Jones Inlet.
 
It has been migrating west forever. Let it close then the next big storm will open it where it was in past nearer the light house.
 
You folks need to avoid that area at all costs...extremely dangerous!
 
The sandbox is filling in!
Where are my tax dollars!!!!!!!!!
 
I went through today, made my return trip from Montauk. I never saw less than 12' of water, an hour past high tide. The 2 red buoys (4 and 4a I think) are practically on the beach, but with the clear water on the incoming tide it was very easy to see how far the shoal extended and avoid it. I stayed in the channel but stayed close to the green buoy. It looked to me like they should move those red buoys a little west and possibly shift the green a little further west also and it will be fine. It really didn't seem all that different from when I went out at the beginning of July, maybe the shoal came out a little further.

John
 
All of the Captree Party boats are still posting fishing reports from the FI reef so they have to be transiting the inlet...
 
If you use Google Earth and zoom and go back in time, you can look back to 1994 and see the huge differences on the west side of Democrat.....
 
John, I hope you didn't break the yellow "caution" tape that was between Buoy 1 and 2

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Unfortunately it would appear that all of our inlets now have issues to varying degrees.

My friend grounded his boat going over a big heave dead center in the channel in East Rockaway (Debs) inlet last Friday. Tide was fairly low but we never had an issue with that inlet. I heard that fuel oil deliveries no longer go through there. If that is true, it will be a long time for dredging there also.
 
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The first lighthouse built on Fire Island was completed in 1826. It was a 74-foot high, cream colored, octagonal pyramid made of Connecticut River blue split stone. The tower was built at the end of the island, adjacent to the inlet. This tower was not effective due to its lack of height. It was taken down and the stone was reused to build the terrace for the present lighthouse. Today a circular ring of bricks and stone are all that remain of the original lighthouse. Due to the westward migration of sand along the beach, known as littoral drift, the inlet is now approximately six miles westward of this site.
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http://www.fireislandlighthouse.com/html/lighthouse_history.html
 
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