H/ PASSAGE
PLAN. TUKTOYUGTUK – POINT BARROW
Distance 485 miles. Sea Sailing Directions. Volume 3
Charts 7663 to Pullen Island. / Hooper Island.
Go outside Pullen. WP 101 69º 47.6 N 134º 15 W Watch Depth.
Note. If ice-pressed or in good conditions, an inside passage, with charted depth of 2 metres may be possible, by sounder on the 2 metre line. There is a 3 mile saving.
Chart 7650. 1:500 Barter Island to Toker Point (Tuktoyugtuk)
Set Course across Mackenzie Bay for Herschel Island. 100 miles
Workboat Passage. Depth 2 metres. WP 102 69º 29.5 N 139º 02.5 W
Herschel North of WP 103 69º 39 N 139º 07 W
Herschel Island to
Barter Island
Chart 7650 1:500 to Camboen Bay 145º 25 W
Jago Spit WP No 104 70º 10 N 143º 16.5 W
Set out only if ice-conditions permit.
Shelter possible at Demarcation Bay, Clarence Lagoon.
Barter Island to Prudhoe Bay 100 miles
Chart 16061 Prudhoe Bay
From Brownlow Point westwards there is a chain of islands behind which shelter or passage may be possible.
Charts we don’t have are 16042 to 16046, 16062.
Sailing Directions. Alaska. We want.
Prudhoe to Cape Halkett 90 miles
Go outside Return Islands
Jones Islands
Chart 16063, 16064, 16065
Cross Harrison Bay in 3 metres to 5 metres
To waypoint 105 Cape Halkett 70º 50 N 152º 10 W
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Cape Halkett to Point Barrow 95 miles
Chart 16066, 16067, 16081, 16082
Follow the coast around Pitt Point
Cross Smith Bay
Follow the coast to Plover Islands
Inside route is possible westward for 20 miles from
Sanigaruak Pass WP 106 71º 11.5 N 155º 23 W
To Elvitak Pass ( 3 miles from Pt. Barrow)
Round
Point Barrow into Chukchi Sea.
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