Alaska Coast Pilot Notes From Yakutat Bay to Cook Inlet (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Navigate Alaska’s rugged coast with trusted, illustrated guidance for mariners traveling from Yakutat Bay to Cook Inlet. This edition compiles the Coast and Geodetic Survey’s latest observations and survey data, offering practical routes, current estimates, and harbor approaches for a safer passage along the southwest Alaska shoreline.

The notes summarize principal coast points and currents, outline recommended courses between key landmarks, and describe the port approaches at Seldovia Harbor and other bays. It blends chart-derived directions with field notes from surveys conducted up to 1907, helping skippers plan coasting routes with awareness of tides, rips, and shallow areas.

What you’ll find

Ideal for readers of historic navigational guides, Alaska mariners, and collectors of early Coast and Geodetic Survey publications seeking a window into coastal navigation practices of the era.

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