The Wicked Weir of the North just claimed yet another victim. Those submerged jetty rocks at the east end of the North Jetty at Barnegat Inlet ruined life for a very sweet sailing vessel.

The toll taken by those hidden weir rocks, which present as a piece of navigable water into the inlet, can best be described as ugly. I’ll confidently estimate that, over the last 50 years, hundreds of vessels have suffered damage there, with unreported hull and prop destruction being far more common than…