A Brief History of Headland Breakwaters for Shore Protection ... - fsbpa

Early on• 1979: Hardaway attends Coastal Engineering course at USCsponsored by Miles Hayes and taught by Richard Silvester.Some other students included Tim Kana, Jeff Williams, KennyFinklestein and Phil Vitae. So began the research by VIMS onspiral bays/pocket beaches• 1980:Hawk Anderson and Jim Gunn were experimenting withperched beaches and spurs• The time had come to apply the research• Summerille Spur – 1983: Early experimentation withSilvester’s spiral bay relationships with pocket beaches. Thetangential section aligns with the impinging wave climate andthe updrift or shadow section follows a logrithmic spiral.