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1 Coast UNITED STATES. Pilot . Oregon, Washington, Hawaii and Pacific Islands 2021 (2nd) Edition Weekly updates to this edition are available at: Department of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Richard W. Spinrad, , Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere National Ocean Service Nicole R. LeBoeuf, Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management II Coast Pilot 10 02 JAN 2022.. Vancouver CANADA. UNITED STATES.. FRA N KLI N D . R OOSE VE LT L A KE.. Seattle Takoma . Grays Harbor WASHINGTON.. ER. C O LU M B I A R I V. NORTH PACIFIC. OCEAN Portland . &RDVW 3 LORW &KDSWHU ,QGH[. &KDSWHU &KHWFR 5 LYHU WR &ROXPELD 5 LYHU 2 UHJRQ. &KDSWHU &ROXPELD 5 LYHU 2 UHJRQ DQG :DVKLQJWRQ. &KDSWHU &ROXPELD 5 LYHU WR 6 WUDLW RI -XDQ 'H )XFD :DVKLQJWRQ. &KDSWHU 6 WUDLW RI -XDQ 'H )XFD DQG *HRUJLD :DVKLQJWRQ.]

2 &KDSWHU 3 XJHW 6 RXQG :DVKLQJWRQ. &KDSWHU +DZDLL. Cape Blanco &KDSWHU 3 DFLILF ,VODQGV. O r e G O N.. CALIFORNIA. (.. Farallon de Pajeros HAWAI IAN ISLANDS. Asuncion I.. Agrihan I. Kauai Pagan I. Oahu Maui MARIANA ISLANDS.. Hawaii Anatahan I. Saipan I.. Tinian I. Rota Guam . 02 JAN 2022 Preface III. Preface T he United States Coast Pilot is published by the National Ocean Service (NOS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), pursuant to the Act of 6 August 1947 (33 883a and b), and the Act of 22 October 1968 (44 1310). The Coast Pilot supplements the navigational information shown on NOAA nautical charts. The publication is continually updated and maintained from inspections conducted by NOAA survey vessels and field parties, corrections published in Notices to Mariners, information from other Federal agencies, State and local governments, maritime and pilots'.)

3 Associations, port authorities, and concerned mariners. NOAA's Office of Coast Survey encourages public feedback regarding its suite of nautical charting products and services through ASSIST, Coast Survey's stakeholder engagement and feedback tool. This allows customers to submit questions or comments or to report an error with NOAA's nautical charts and products. Customers can access ASSIST at Those who prefer to communicate by telephone can contact Coast Survey at 1 888 990 6622. Coast Pilot corrections are no longer published in the NGA Notice to Mariners effective 01 January 2021. Additional information regarding the NGA policy change can be referenced at in the Notice to Mariners 52/20. Hydrogram and Marine Information sections. Coast Pilot Updates Check for weekly critical updates for this edition at (See 33 CFR Charts and Publications, chapter 2, for regulations.)

4 Customers may print the specifically affected paragraphs to revise this book, or download an updated file (PDF) of the entire volume. A Weekly Record of Updates is provided directly preceding the index. IV Coast Pilot 10 02 JAN 2022. 02 JAN 2022 Contents V. Contents Preface III. Chapter 1: General Information 1. Chapter 2: Navigation Regulations 35. Chapter 3: Oregon and Washington 193. Chapter 4: Chetco River to Columbia River, Oregon 205. Chapter 5: Columbia River, Oregon and Washington 229. Chapter 6: Columbia River to Strait of Juan De Fuca, Washington 261. Chapter 7: Strait of Juan De Fuca and Georgia, Washington 281. Chapter 8: Puget Sound, Washington 315. Chapter 9: Hawaii 355. Chapter 10: Pacific Islands 429. Navigation Rules 449. Appendix A 475. Weekly Record of Updates 481. Index 485. VI Contents 02 JAN 2022. 02 JAN 2022 Coast Pilot 10, Chapter 1 1.

5 General Information (1) sequence, north to south on the east coast, east to west on UNITED STATES COAST Pilot the gulf coast, clockwise around each of the Great Lakes and south to north on the west coast and Alaskan coast. (2) The United States Coast Pilot , published by the Features are described as they appear on the largest scale National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chart, with that chart number prominently shown in blue. (NOAA), is a series of ten nautical books (volumes) that (10) Appendix A contains contact information regarding encompasses a wide variety of information important to the various products, services and agencies detailed navigators of coastal/intracoastal waters and the throughout the volume. waters of the Great Lakes. The Coast Pilot is intended to (11) Navigation Rules preceding Appendix A, be used as a supplement to NOAA nautical charts.

6 Much contains the International (72 COLREGS) and Inland of the content cannot be shown graphically on the charts Navigation Rules, technical Annexes, and associated and is not readily available elsewhere. Topics which are Federal rules and regulations. covered include environmental factors of weather, climate, (12) The Weekly Record of Updates is intended as a log ice conditions, tides, water levels, currents, prominent for critical updates applied to this volume. coastal features and landmarks. Specific information (13) The Index contains geographic names mentioned on vertical clearances, wharf descriptions, small-craft throughout a Coast Pilot volume. These names are facilities, hazards, dredged channels and depths are also boldfaced and indexed along with the number of the provided. Navigation services and regulations are also largest scale chart on which the entire feature appears.

7 Identified including pilotage, towing, anchorages, routes Asterisks preceding a chart number in the index of and traffic separation schemes, environmental protection, Coast Pilot 5 indicate charts published by the National and other Federal laws. Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and in the index of Coast (3) New editions of each volume are issued annually. Pilot 6, charts published by the Canadian Hydrographic Fully updated files are posted weekly on the Internet, and Service. are also available through NOAA Certified Chart Agents (14). at Bearings (4) Amendments to this publication are available at (15) Bearings and courses are in degrees true and are measured clockwise from 000 (north) to 359 . The html. bearings of an aid to navigation ( , directional light, (5). light sector, range) are given as viewed from the bridge Using the Coast Pilot of a vessel toward the light.

8 (6) Chapter 1 contains definitions of general and (16). standard terms used throughout the volume, discussions Bridges and Cables of NOAA charting products and services, descriptions of (17) Vertical clearances of bridges and overhead cables maritime services by various Government agencies, are in feet above mean high water unless otherwise stated;. Notices to Mariners and other information pertinent to clearances in Coast Pilot 6 are in feet above Low Water safe navigation. Datum unless otherwise stated. When the water level (7) Chapter 2 contains selected extracts from the Code is above Low Water Datum, the bridge and overhead of Federal Regulations (CFR) that affect mariners. cable clearances given in the Coast Pilot and shown on (8) Chapter 3 contains general information that is the charts should be reduced accordingly. Clearances peculiar to the region covered by a particular Coast Pilot of drawbridges are for the closed position, although the volume.

9 For example, practical information regarding open clearances are also given for vertical-lift bridges. offshore currents and dangers, coastal aids to navigation, Whenever a bridge span over a channel does not open fully prominent landmarks and the general character of the to an unlimited clearance position, a minimum clearance coast and depths helpful in approaching the region. for the sections over the channel is given; the same applies (9) In Chapter 4 and the remaining numbered to swing and pontoon bridges with openings less than 50. chapters, the detailed description of the region begins. feet horizontally. Clearances given in the Coast Pilot are A map precedes each chapter and outlines the nautical those approved for nautical charting and are supplied by charts used in the area to be discussed. In these chapters, as the Coast Guard (bridges) and Army Corps of much as possible, the coastal description is in geographic Engineers (cables).

10 See charts for horizontal clearances 2 Coast Pilot 10, Chapter 1 02 JAN 2022. of bridges, as these are generally given in the Coast Pilot (27). only when they are less than 50 feet (15 meters). Tables Under-keel clearances listing structures across waterways, found in some Coast (28) It is becoming increasingly evident that economic Pilots, show both horizontal and vertical clearances. pressures are causing mariners to navigate through waters Submarine cables are rarely mentioned. of barely adequate depth, with under-keel clearances (18) being finely assessed from the charted depths, predicted Cable ferries tide levels and depths recorded by echo sounders. (19) Cable ferries are guided by cables fastened to (29) It cannot be too strongly emphasized that even shore and sometimes propelled by a cable rig attached charts based on modern surveys may not show all sea- to the shore.