Hydaburg (USHYG)

The port is currently closed for commercial operations. Information for the port is retained should the port reopen. The port is used primarily for log loading, general cargo and fishing.

Summer.

Hydaburg is located on the E shore of Sukkwan Strait in Alaska on the W coast of Prince of Wales Island, 2nm E of Goat Island.

Anchorage may be made approx 0.3 nm NW of Saltery Point (55°11'N 132°48'W), in depths of 18.0-27.0m, mud bottom. A 3 point mooring system, used by vessels of up to 24,000DWT, LOA 160m, lies close NW of Saltery Point.

Vessels approach and enter the harbour through Sukkwan Strait and depart by the same route. Sukkwan Strait: The fairway leads NW, passing (with positions given from Eek Point Light 55°08'N 132°40'W): Between Eek Point Light (square frame, red and white chequered diamond daymark) exhibited on Eek Point, a comparatively low projection on the NE side of the entrance to Sullwan Strait, and Round Point (1nm SW). Then the fairway has good depths in mid channel, passing: Between the foul ground surrounding a small island (4.75nm WNW) lying close to the coast on the SW side, and a shoal bank extending 0.25nm from the coast on the NE side. Then rounding Saltery Point (5.25nm WNW) a steeply rising headland, with a log pound and buoy moorings lying close NW of the point. Some rocks lie at the outer end of a drying spit approx 0.45nm SW of Saltery Point. Then the fairway leads NNW, passing (with positions given from Saltery Point): WSW of the foul ground (0.52nm NW), with a depth of 0.3m over the S extremity, that extends S and SW from a group of small islands lying close off the coast on the NE side. A rock (0.87nm NW) with a depth of 4.1m over it is the SW most danger, and the NW edge of the foul ground 300m farther NNW is marked by No 2 Buoy (starboard hand). Then: Midway between a detached rock (1.5nm NW) with a depth of 4.1m over it and marked on its N side by a buoy (preferred channel to starboard) lying in mid channel and a 4.6m shoal lying approx 150m E at the S end of foul ground extending 0.22nm from the point close E of Hydaburg Pier.

BA 2430. Admiralty Pilot NP4.

Compulsory, with few exceptions. Pilots board at Guard Islands (55°27'N 131° 53'W), or Cabras Islands (55°21'N 133°23'W).

For crew not to be detained onboard, each crew member must have a visa in their passport or Seaman's Book.

Please see country information for details of documentation requirements.

Vessels arriving in first US port: Please see country information.

Coastguard Vessel Inspection: Please see country information.

No action initiated unless there is illness onboard. Ship Sanitation Control Certificates: Please see country information.