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| Date: Oct. 16, 2009 Contact: (907) 487-5700 Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis |
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Coast Guard Cutter Elderberry set to remove Gastineau Channel buoys |
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JUNEAU, Alaska – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Elderberry, a 65-foot inland buoy tender homeported in Petersburg, Alaska, is scheduled to begin removing 18 navigational buoys Friday in the Gastineau Channel which runs through the Mendenhall Bar. The Elderberry crew and members of the Juneau Coast Guard Auxiliary flotilla will work together through the weekend around the tide cycles to remove the buoys, chains and weights. The navigational aides are placed in the channel each year around April 1 and are removed around Oct. 15 because of adverse weather condition moving the position of the buoys and limited use by mariners during that time. Gastineau Channel provides direct access from the Juneau/Douglas area to fishing grounds north of the cities and saves about 20 miles over the alternate route around the south end of Douglas Island. More than 1,000 commercial and recreational vessels are berthed in the Juneau/Douglas complex and harbors. |
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