Small area of Avon beach will be closed Wednesday for removal of grounded sailing vessel
The Cape Hatteras National Seashore (CHNS) has issued a permit for the removal of the 37-foot sailing vessel Alhambra, which grounded on the beach close to the Avon Pier on Sunday morning, December 11.
Starting on Wednesday morning, December 15, a small area of the beach will be temporarily closed north of the Avon Fishing Pier to allow for the safe removal of the Alhambra, and to conduct any necessary clean-up of the surrounding shoreline, per an update from the CHNS.
This is the second vessel to be grounded along Hatteras Island in the past several weeks, as on November 28, a commercial fishing vessel also ran aground along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, near ORV Ramp 48 in Frisco.
On December 7, U.S. Coast Guard personnel also had to assist four fishermen from a disabled fishing vessel, the Bald Eagle II, off the coast of Duck, and work continues to remove the disabled vessel from the northern Outer Banks shoreline.
