We pulled into Petersburg after an easy transit of Wrangell Narrows. It’s time for laundry, provisioning, fueling, watering, and all of the other boat maintenance jobs that are best done at a dock.
Petersburg’s number one industry is fishing, and you can tell just from the marina. There are a couple of other sailboats, and a few large motoryachts, but 90% of the boats are commercial fishing boats. There are salmon longliners, gillnetters, and purse seiners of every size and age. Madrone looks a bit out of place, but it’s a comfortable marina.
There is no deep water dock in Petersburg, so the cruise ships that stop at most other southeast Alaska towns aren’t able to make it here. That means that the town has largely kept its working feel, and it’s nice to be in a place like that (even if we’re not really so different from cruise ship passengers in one sense).
