Special Harbor, Pilot and Customs Rule

Question 1

72 COLREGS,

Answer 1

Navigational Rules, apply and are enforced by the USCG.

Question 2

Puget Sound Pilots

Answer 2

compulsory ….

Question 3

Local Magnetic Disturbance

Answer 3

of more than 2° off Hood Head

Question 4

Port Gamble Bay Pilotage

Answer 4

• dock against current
• local knowldege and precise piloting essential at the lumber wharf.
• Stay midchannel entering Gamble until 200yds + past S Lt, then head for wharf, keeping the long E face open to avoid shoal on W side of channel.

Question 5

Hood Canal Bridge Operating Details

Answer 5

• 2 fixed openings with priv fog signals
• Center 600’ are pontoons, opens for larger vessels
• Tender monitors VHF 16, works 13
• Opens on signal with 1hour notice by radio, phone, visual or sound signals. To open 1 prolonged, 1 short. 5 short by tender means can’t open or closing.

Question 6

Pleasant Harbor Pilotage

Answer 6

keep midchannel due to narrowness of entrance until clear of 6’ shoal.

Question 7

N Naval Exercise Area -

Answer 7

Extending from aprox South Pt - South down the Hood Canal for 4.7nm. From E shore to .25 from w shore

Question 8

Naval Operating Area

Answer 8

All waters of Hood Canal between 47° 46’ N and 47° 42’ N excluding 1/4nm area on W shore, and along E shore south from Bangor.
 Used intermittently by Navy non explosive torpedo ranging, nav lanes along shore not closed to navigation.
 Navigation permitted within the area except during naval exercises, vessels can’t enter or remain in area when in excercises in progress.
 Naval vessels flying red “Bravo” flag means operations in progress.
Regs enforced by commander NAVBASE Seattle.

Question 9

Naval Operating Area in Dabob Bay,

Answer 9

Vicinty of Quilcene
- Irregular shaped area in most of Dabob Bay
• No trawling or dragging
• No anchoring except between shore and 10Fa line.
• Flashing Amber Lts means naval ops in progress but no torpedos or testing, keep clear of vessels engaged testing.
• Flashing Red Lts when naval ops close the area to navigation. Craft on the bay should stop screws, engines, depth sounders.