{"id":7315,"date":"2020-02-05T02:36:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T07:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=7315"},"modified":"2020-02-05T02:36:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T07:36:08","slug":"lavallette-to-reposition-bayfront-moorings-adapt-to-popularization-of-kayaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2020\/02\/lavallette-to-reposition-bayfront-moorings-adapt-to-popularization-of-kayaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavallette to Reposition Bayfront Moorings, Adapt to Popularization of Kayaks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Moorings at the Lavallette bay beach. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Lavallette officials said this week that they will reposition moorings at the borough\u2019s bay beach in order to accommodate more kayaks, which have outnumbered sailboats in recent years as more people switch to the paddled vessels.<\/p>\n

The waiting list for moorings spaces has long been an issue in town, and now numbers 60 prospective boaters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re going to reconfigure every one of those moorings and make them 11-feet apart,\u201d said Councilman Robert Lamb. \u201cWe can add 25 more moorings, and that may alleviate the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

The borough will also install several kayak racks that can hold four boats each. Council members are considering whether they should be placed near the boat ramp \u2013 which is due for an upgrade this year \u2013 or more toward the center of the bayfront area. The racks are about four feet in height and should not block anyone\u2019s view of the bay, Lamb said. But Mayor Walter LaCicero recalled that some bayfront residents were not happy about the former ice skating rink at the bay beach or a fence that used to be there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know the fence was four feet high for the roller rink and that caused problems,\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n

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Moorings at the Lavallette bay beach. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Regardless of the final location, the moorings are being re-spaced and the racks should be ready for the upcoming summer season. Their location can always be moved as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can start off slow \u2013 three or four of them \u2013 and see how it works,\u201d said Councilwoman Joanne Filippone. \u201cThe racks themselves are not going to permanently installed in concrete, so we can always move them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The governing body has not decided on a fee for space on the kayak racks, but $50 has been suggested.<\/p>\n

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Lavallette officials said this week that they will reposition moorings at the borough\u2019s bay beach in order to accommodate more kayaks, which have outnumbered sailboats in recent years as more people switch to the paddled vessels. The waiting list for moorings spaces has long been an issue in town, and now numbers 60 prospective boaters. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,18,3,2],"tags":[1659,1660,29],"class_list":["post-7315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boating-fishing","category-featured","category-lavallette-government","category-lavallette","tag-boat-moorings","tag-kayaks","tag-lavallette-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_3573-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1TZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}