Sunday, August 31st – http://iamlearningdisabled.com/surpise-some-of-us-dont-like-surprises/ FROLYC aka First Royal Old Lonelyville Yacht Club. This Regatta is around East Island. Racers choose to begin their race by going East or West.
The 2014 Commodores are Ellen Abramowitz & Gloria Perna.
*Start time is 12:00 p.m. Sharp! Mandatory Skippers Meeting will be held at 11:30 a.m. Last years regatta included 30 boats. Racers must allow enough time for their boats to be rigged & registered prior to the skippers meeting.

Trophy Ceremony will be held at 50 Gull Walk aka West Walk in Dunewood at 3:00 p.m.
*Please note that Race Time & Ceremony Times are subject to change do to weather & wind conditions.

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Click on the first small photo below to see the slide show from the 2013 FROLYC – Photos: Courtesy of Wayne R. Glaubinger:

Photo: Ellen S. Abramowitz – Copyright c. 2005

“Only the best can champion this regatta of two races without a throw-out.” All races start promptly at 11:45 a.m. unless otherwise specified. Mandatory Skipper’s Meetings will be held 15 minutes prior to the start of the race.

*All races subject to change do to weather conditions.

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Photo: Ellen S. Abramowitz – Copyright c. 2014

Friday, August 29th at 5:30 P.M. – Dunewood Yacht Club (DYC) – Paper Plate Awards & Perpetual Award Ceremony.

Instructors arriving with Paper Plate Awards.

Paper Plate awards are tailored for each student. Instructors sharing the narrative behind the title of each award.

The Perpetual Trophy: This trophy has been coveted by the community since its inception in 1962. It is awarded each year to the student in racing class that has demonstrated masterful skill, devotion, and attitude.

Below: The main trophy on the right is on loan to the most recent winner for one year, then passed on to the next winner the following year. The trophy on the left is kept by the Perpetual winner.  The Perpetual Trophy has travel the world and returned to the Dunewood Yacht Club (DYC) every summer. Every winner’s name with the year that they won is engraved on the trophy.  The first part of the ceremony is the reading of previous winners. The black tape is then removed revealing the newest Perpetual winner.

http://dunewoodyachtclub.com/the-perpetual/

This trophy has been coveted by the community since its inception in 1962. It is awarded each year to the student in racing class that has demonstrated masterful skill, devotion, and attitude.

photos: ellen s. abramowitz – copyright c. 2008 & 2013

Saturday August 30th – Dunewood Labor Day Tennis “Open”.

Sign-up sheets are located at the entrance to the tennis courts. Teams will be RANDOMLY chosen consisting of one A & B player on Friday night August, 29th. The tournament starts at 9:00 AM Sharp! Trophies will be awarded to the winning and runner up teams.

From Left to Right:
2013 – Winners: – Anthony Cutrone & Peter Taub. Runners- up: Marty Mark & Jason Perna

Fire Island had 200 homes washed away during superstorm Sandy, rising floodwaters from the Atlantic Ocean push past 15-foot dunes and a breach that has grown to more than 600 feet wide. The resort community has just 300 permanent residents, but on summer weekends, the population swells to 75,000. (Credit: Doug Kuntz)

Suffolk public works officials on Wednesday won a waiver to speed up the hiring of surveyors to do as much as $2.8 million in advance map work needed to acquire damaged homes and rebuild dunes across Fire Island in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.

“We’re looking to expedite the surveys so we can get to the acquisitions,” said Gil Anderson, public works commissioner. Later in an interview,…

By RICK BRAND rick.brand@newsday.com

Four of Dunewood’s tennis enthusiasts:  Larry Piergrossi, Wayne Glaubinger, Bob Stone and Marty Mark.

Photo: Gloria Perna – Copyright c. 2014

Dunewood Outsiders Make to the Playoffs!  First round game today at 10:30 – a.m.

Photo: Gloria Perna – Copyright c. 2014

To the Editor:

Re “A Beach Project Built on Sand,” by Robert S. Young (Op-Ed, Aug. 22):

After Hurricane Sandy, the Army Corps of Engineers delineated the devastation on Long Island, saying “the dune and berm system along Fire Island is now depleted,” increasing “the potential for storm damage to shore and particularly back bay communities.”

As our first line of defense, it is important to bolster Fire Island, which hosts more than four million visitors a year and is home to New York’s only federally designated wilderness, with 17 communities of 4,500 houses nestled along its perimeter.

Mr. Young is among those who advocate abandoning the coast and allowing nature to take its course. Coastal engineers disagree with that approach.

Dr. Lawrence Swanson, a marine scientist at Stony Brook University, has said: The corps’ work “could significantly reduce the impact of waves and wave run-up on the mainland of Long Island. It will aid in providing an environment for marsh to survive, reducing velocities of storm-generated currents and thus lessening the impact of a storm.”

Mr. Young did not mention the acres that we designated as piping plover habitat and the 40 houses we are removing to put in place a 14-foot dune and an 8.5-foot berm that stretches 16 miles, exclusive of the far-reaching wilderness area.

Nature must be respected, but we cannot ignore our obligation to defend the homes of hundreds of thousands of residents and tens of billions of dollars in property. And for Suffolk County, that defense begins at our barrier beaches.

STEVE BELLONE
Suffolk County Executive
Hauppauge, N.Y., Sept. 10, 2014

Please read the New York Times Article below and perhaps send in your comments too:

A Beach Project Built on Sand
By ROBERT S. YOUNG AUG. 21, 2014

EARLIER this month, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a $207 million plan to dredge millions of tons of sand off the south shore of Long Island and spread it along the beaches and dunes. The Army Corps of Engineers, which will direct the federally financed project, says it will stabilize Fire Island and reduce the storm surge hazard for the mainland.

In fact, the project will do neither. It is a colossal waste of money and another consequence of the nation’s failure to develop a coherent plan to address the risks from storms faced by states along the eastern seaboard and gulf coast.

That failure was underscored in a report last month by the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, which evaluated efforts by the Army Corps and other federal agencies to reduce those risks. The take-away from the National Research Council was alarming: There is no national plan to manage the coast. No plan for storm-damage reduction. No plan for how best to allocate federal funds. And no plan for how to respond to coastal hazards and rising sea levels over the long run.

This leaves governments reactive rather than proactive. Most money is provided only after a disaster occurs, and is to be used in the areas affected by that one storm. In some cases, government officials and politicians want to be seen doing something, anything, to protect valuable coastal properties. Unfortunately, science and reality have been ignored in the plan to rebuild storm-damaged beaches and dunes along 19 miles of Long Island’s South Shore, including Fire Island National Seashore.

Scientists from the United States Geological Survey have been studying the evolution of Fire Island for more than a decade. They have examined how the sediment moves, where it comes from, how the island’s shoreline changes and the way ocean waters move in front of and behind the island during storms. The results of these studies have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.

In its evaluation of the Army Corps’ draft Fire Island plan, the Geological Survey pointed out that the project’s justification and benefits were seriously flawed. The project will not reduce storm surge or storm hazards for properties across from Fire Island on the mainland, even though a significant portion of the cost justification for rebuilding the beaches and dunes came from protecting private property and infrastructure on the mainland. Why else would you spend so much to pump all that sand on the island?

The Army Corps’ environmental assessment made a broad assumption that Fire Island had been “damaged” by Hurricane Sandy and required repair and stabilization. But significant work over the years by coastal scientists at the Geological Survey has laid out a very clear picture of the long-term evolution of the island. Fire Island is a barrier island that does not require this project to “stabilize” it. The island and the national seashore have been relatively stable since colonial times.

Significant post-storm recovery of the island’s beaches has already occurred since Sandy. Natural reformation of the sand dunes will take longer, but nature is already repairing the island. Free of charge.

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Fire Island is blessed with significant near-shore sand that has maintained shoreline stability over the years. This is the very sand that the Corps plans to dredge to build artificial dunes. The impacts of changing the natural flow of this sediment to the beach are unknown, but surprises are possible.

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Lynda 25 days ago
Taxpayer funding for “beach dredge and fill” projects needs to go to beaches where all taxpayers are welcome. Those private/business…
Jon G 25 days ago
Anothet example of politics, beliefs, and job protection trumping planning and science. Global warming on a smaller scale in our…
new world 25 days ago
207 million to protect some 15000 homes. Comes to about $13000 per household. This happens about once every 10 years. Cost to fed gov =…
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Dredge-and-fill projects like this are not environmentally benign. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service warned that the plan, in the short term, would hurt fish and wildlife and their supporting ecosystems, and would have long-term consequences on habitat and the island itself.

Of particular concern to some scientists and environmentalists is the habitat for piping plovers. These birds are listed by the Fish and Wildlife Service as threatened nationally and endangered within the State of New York. Storms like Hurricane Sandy actually create fabulous habitat for these birds in the storm deposits that sweep across Fire Island. But the proposed dune building will interrupt the development of that habitat.

Fire Island National Seashore is a perfect example of a place where storm impacts should be viewed as a natural event. Storms are an important part of barrier island sustainability. The waters that wash over the island also pile sand on top of the barrier, adding to the overall elevation of the island itself. The Corps’ proposed dunes will block that process.

It is hard to understand why this project was allowed to move forward without a more detailed investigation in the form of an environmental impact statement. The Corps relied on old science or no science to build a case for the benefits. The scientific criticism provided by other agencies was overwhelming but went largely unaddressed. Instead, the Corps will bury a national seashore, a state park and a county park in sand under the illusion that some properties in low-lying areas on the mainland might gain a small bit of protection.

This is the new post-Sandy model. We now favor political expediency over science, and action over a thoughtful evaluation of its long-term consequences.

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Please help spread the word about COMMUNITY CPR DAY ON FIRE ISLAND.

CPR information for Ocean Beach Course

Sunday – August 24, 2014

9am – noon

Ocean Beach community House

Class takes 20 minutes

HANDS ONLY
ALL AGES WELCOME