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**Signed by author and includes matching bookmark and detachable pocket course cards.** Wrangell Narrows is a treacherous body of water threading between Petersburg, Alaska at the north end and Point Alexander to the south, painstakingly navigated by a wide variety of ships, barges, ferries and private craft. Less than fondly nicknamed Pinball Alley, Christmas Tree Lane, The Twisting Nightmare, or simply The Ditch, the Narrows requires the utmost in nautical experience from those who seek to run its length. Captain Hopkins has compiled an invaluable source book for all those interested in the seaway history or intricacies of navigation in this area of Southeast Alaska's Inside Passage, beautifully enhanced by Captain Matt G. Wilkens' superb photographic images of the Narrows.
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About the Author :
As a captain on the Alaska Marine Highway System, William Hopkins sailed the waters of Alaska from the Bering Sea to the Inside Passage for thirty years. An unlimited ocean master, he also spent many seasons as a pilot on the cruise ships plying the waters of the Inside Passage. Captain Hopkins has pilotage for nearly all of the 3,500 nautical miles of the Alaska Marine Highway, from Seattle to Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands and is a graduate of Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Review :
A photograph in Capt. William Hopkins' new book about Wrangell Narrows makes clear why skippers treat that body of water with maximum respect. No fewer than 17 aids to navigation are visible looking past Green Island toward Blind Slough, arrayed like an Olympic ski slalom course in marking the only safe route through the waterway. It's obvious that piloting an Alaska ferry or other large vessel through the 22.3-nautical-mile narrows between Mitkof and Kupreanof islands requires a precise application of knowledge and judgment. Hopkins' main reasons for writing Wrangell Narrows, Alaska are twofold, he told the Daily News recently. One reason is to preserve hard-won knowledge. Hopkins said he watched experienced captains retire without writing down how they navigated the narrows. And eventually, that knowledge disappears, Hopkins said. The only way you're going to preserve this is to put it on paper. He cited his own mentors, captains like Harold Payne, Richard Hofstad and Maynard Reeser. They would help, but young officers still had to learn mostly by observation. They just didn't hand you a piece of paper; you had to figure it out for yourself, Hopkins said. Recording these navigation practices fits well with Hopkins' other primary reason for writing the book: Helping young mariners learn Wrangell Narrows. When I was a new skipper, I had very strong apprehensions about Wrangell Narrows, and you'd be a fool if you don't, Hopkins said. I also understood that the only way for some of that apprehension to go away is to learn as much about it as you can. And that was part of this project too. A little bit of knowledge gives you a little more strength in there. Actually, Hopkins packs a lot of nautical knowledge about Wrangell Narrows into a slim volume less than 80 pages cover to cover. But the centerpiece of Wrangell Narrows, Alaska is the detailed sections on actually navigating the waterway northbound and southbound. I've always taught my newer mates that, in regards to Wrangell Narrows, there are several Wrangell Narrows you have to learn in great detail because a northbound is different from a southbound and you must know it, Hopkins said. Intimately. Visually. And when you lose visibility, you have to know it on the radar. And there can be no doubt in your mind about what it is you're seeing. It's technical stuff, but Hopkins hopes the broader public also will find the book interesting. The book can provide them with some general information about the place, he said. It also might help passengers understand why ferry schedules are changed sometimes because of conditions in Wrangell Narrows. Published by Scott Company Publishing, the first copies of Wrangell Narrows, Alaska arrived in Ketchikan earlier this month. The handsome volume is graced by 24 of Capt. Matt G. Wilkens' photographs of Wrangell Narrows. It also includes a handy card reference that lists the location of each course change and the true compass courses for the northbound and southbound passages. Now at retirement, Hopkins is pleased to be finished with navigating ferries through the waterway known as the Twisting Nightmare and Pinball Alley. His last trip through Wrangell Narrows was a nighttime southbound run in November. I thought it would be a sentimental-type trip, he said. But Wrangell Narrows is Wrangell Narrows, and there's no room for that. I got out of there, southbound at Point Alexander, and I just kind of looked at that light flashing and I was glad to be finished with it. I really was. Nothing sentimental about it. --Scott Bowlen, Ketchikan Daily News
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- ÉditeurScott Company Publishing
- Date d'édition2006
- ISBN 10 1930043589
- ISBN 13 9781930043589
- ReliurePaperback
- Numéro d'édition1
- Nombre de pages74
- IllustrateurPhotography By Captain Matthew G. Wilkens
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