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12-mile Shinnecock Moriches Fire Island Hempstead McAllister Atlantic Beach Rockaway Matinecock Smithtown Kismet Yellowbar

Four of the reef sites are too small to draw at this scale, so they are represented by blue crosses. If you cut the arms off the crosses, that's about how big the reefs would be! Inlets are labeled in black, except for Rockaway, which is actually two inlets and a reef. Moriches is also much smaller than shown here; the proposed expansion is plotted, the current reef would be a dot.

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Winds & Waves

Hokusai wave

Winds are named for the direction they blow from, not to. Therefore, a west wind blows out of the west, toward the east.

Waves are created by wind. The factors in the mechanics of wave creation are wind speed and direction and fetch. Fetch is the distance over which the wind acts on the water. The longer the fetch, the greater the wave-building action. Similarly, the greater the wind speed, the greater the wave-building action.

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