Come out to Sebastian Inlet Surf & Sport on May 27th from 4pm-10pm for their 5th Anniversary Party and support the First Peak Project which is dedicated to restoring the first peak at Sebastian Inlet State Park. There will be live music, food, drinks, vendors, and live mural painting. Everyone is invited!!!!

Sebastian Inlet Surf & Sport are making waves! 5 years has got to be tough in the retail business. Congrats!

This is an exciting project worth supporting and parties at Sebastian Inlet Surf and Sport are always a lot of fun! With all the different vendors at this one it is sure to be an excellent way to spend your Saturday of Memorial Day weekend!

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"Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on. " -LZep

Bump for a good time! First Peak Forum starts at 4pm, so be there early!

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The First Peak Project is a 501(c)(3) public benefit organization whose mission is to restore the legendary wave First Peak at Sebastian Inlet to its former glory. 

 

www.firstpeak.org

John, Hope to be there with the rest of the "W" crew. Too bad you couldn't get St. John's Wood to play. They draw a serious crowd!

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Please come out and support this great cause. I'm known on 2nd light as a kneeboard surfer, but I'm also a brewer with Red Buoy Brewers. We're going all in for this event, maxing out our lifeguard kegerator with nine kegs of craft beer.

see you there!

" They draw a serious crowd! " Cherry Down is my band, so we get credit for any serious crowd that is there this time. LOL. (Righto)
Youtube Charlie Pickett. They are coming up from Miami and looks like they are pretty good. Of course Billy Chapman is long time Brevard Musician. Should be a fun event.


I think kneeblaster is my new best friend! Love craft beer...See ya'll there.

OPPs My Bad-didn't read the fine print! Hope to get there and hear Cherry Down!

It was an inside comment since St. John's Wood pulled in like 500 for their last Night Sounds at the Inlet gig- John and I were there.

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Are they the beatles tribute band? I've seen them. they are good.

googled st johns wood, same band. 60s rock. Saw them at Squid Lips and enjoyed them. Talented band for sure.

Yes mostly British Invasion music, Stones, Beatles, Who, Zombies, Animals, etc.

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Edited: 05/22/2017 at 08:23 AM by daner

from surfrider email of craft beer attendees:

Red Buoy Brewers
The Red Buoy Brewers are in fact Wabasso lifeguards ... who make really, really good beer ... like contest winning beer. The guys are all in on the First Peak Project and they mean business.

Pareidolia Brewing Company
Pareidolia: The imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist.
Yes, and while we all imagine First Peak as it was, that vision does not exist, but we can make it it happen. Oh Yes We Can! From Sebastian, SUP surfer Pete Anderson will bring some of his finest to our tasting tables.

Hell 'N Blazes Brewing Company
Straight outta old downtown Melbourne, Hell 'N Blazes' Andy Pinkerton took about one second to jump on the First Peak bandwagon. If you've been to their Taproom, you know how great their pours are.

Walking Tree Brewery
Vero Beach checks in with two great breweries. Walking Tree has such a cool vibe near the airport. A cavernous space (formerly a WWII naval supply warehouse) great people, awesome tasting menu. A must visit ... and ardent supporters of the the First Peak Project.

Orchid Island Brewery
Have a fondness for summery beers? Then stop trying to cram a lime wedge in your Corona bottle and drink some real citrus infused IPAs and sour beers from this Vero Beach gem. The difference is obvious.

Charlie Pickett:

CFLDAVE Do you know what time Cherry Down will be playing?

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Event is from 4 to 10pm and we are slated to play last. so probably 8:00 or 8:30 and we have the green light to play past 10pm if the beer is still flowing...

Nice! Top Billing.
Look forward to hearing you guys.

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Edited: 05/25/2017 at 08:28 AM by daner

Thanks, I hope we don't disappoint! I'll be there early to set up. Come and say hello and let's cheer to a beer!

Fine presentation with some media coverage.  

As a biologist, I'm not a good engineering critic, but:

1.  It's pretty well understood how the Jetty was altered, degrading First Peak

2.  Methods for altering/protecting/improving structures like the Jetty have improved and become more versatile in recent years.  It looks like modifications can be made pretty easily and cheaply, and reversibly if so desired.  

3.  Wave modelling methods have improved.  If you still worry that waves are ridiculously hard to model, there's the empirical alternative, that the past layout of the Jetty is known and can be restored.

4.  Various alternatives will be available, allowing for picking something based on cost and likelihood of success

5.  The situation is nothing like the artificial reef proposals of years past, all of which failed.  

6.  The impending wave park proliferation may help the cause of tweaking "wave parks" that utilize natural swells and coastal processes, with a bit of help (correctly designed jetty)

7.  It helps a lot that the Sebastian Inlet Jetty is an engineering marvel.  A typical jetty is a straight pile of rocks.  Our Jetty is a water-permeable cousin to a pier, and it curves.  It's different from the others.

On the other hand, I hope that photo and video archives of Sebastian Inlet can be made complete enough to show how good it was.  The ease of making and posting photos means that footage from other jetties is becoming increasingly available, and much of that footage is pretty noxious.  

As the presentation emphasized, surfing waves are fairly delicate things.  Good ones are valuable.  It might be best to be careful about over-promising, though I'm pretty confident that alterations can be made with a pretty strong promise of doing good and NOT doing harm.  I think progress might be made in stages.  

The post-talk discussion reminded me a bit of acoustics people trying to adjust a concert hall, which can be a delicate business.  Good concert halls and opera houses are marvels of making non-amplified music heard.  A lot is known about how to design them, but until recently, it hasn't been easy to assure, before construction, that a design will be really good.  Waves at beaches seem likely to be even more difficult in terms of physics.  Tweaking a jetty will be a pioneering project.  

Congratulations, so far, to the First Peak Project. 

WW, I was there you should have said hello. Good seeing you Daner. See you again in another 20 years! LOL.