Nathan Hale Beach Club Repairing Severe Storm Damage

Work is ongoing at the Nathan Hale Beach Club property following the rain storm that hit the area March 13,  bringing with it strong winds.

"The whole end of the deck got lifted up with the waves and it destroyed a lot of the joisting," said club member John Cannon. "So we're replacing the sill pieces and the joists that were broken."

In addition to problems with the deck, Cannon said that the dock itself shifted to the west about a foot-and-a-half. "We jacked it back up on to the pilings and all that has to be addressed, reworked and repaired. Some of the pilings themselves actually shifted with the waves and all."

He noted that, during the storm, the water traveled as far up as the club's beachhouse, approximately 50 feet from the water's edge, filling it and the club's basketball court with sand.

The club is located right at the point where Lloyd Harbor meets Northport Bay. It looks out on the Target Rock National Wildlife Refuge in Lloyd Harbor to the northwest and the tip of Eaton's Neck in Northport to the northeast.

He said the club had planned to replace or repair certain items and thought about doing it in the fall because construction companies generally slow down and club members thought they might get the work done for less.

Luckily, Cannon said, it didn't move forward with the work. "After this, we would have just had to do it over," Cannon said. "We're going to replace it in kind. Make it just the way it was before."

The work is being done by teh firm of Peter Smith, another member,  P.E. Smith Associates, Inc.
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According to an article in The New York Times, the Nathan Hale Beach Association was formed in 1920 to mark the spot where America's first known spy was captured by the British during the Revolutionary War.