Title 12 . Professional and Vocational Regulations

Chapter 56 . Big Game Guides and Transporters

Section 27. Dockings, undockings, and observer trips

12 AAC 56.027. Dockings, undockings, and observer trips

(a) All supervised dockings and undockings required to be done by an applicant for licensure under this chapter must have been

(1) executed while the applicant possessed a valid United States Coast Guard license with an endorsement of first class pilotage without tonnage restrictions for

(A) except as provided in (B) of this paragraph, the waters in which the docking or undocking was done;

(B) the entire Southeastern Alaska region, except Yakutat, Klawock, and Port of Hollis, valid when the docking or undocking was done in that region;

(2) executed while the applicant held at least a United States Coast Guard license as master of steam or motor vessels of not more than 1,600 gross tons;

(3) executed within the three years before the date of application;

(4) completed with no more than 40 percent of the dockings and 40 percent of the undockings made under the supervision of the same training pilot; and

(5) certified by the supervising pilot as having been satisfactory and must have included a full briefing and debriefing by the supervising pilot; the applicant shall submit to the board documentation of all supervised vessel movements on an evaluation form provided by the department.

(b) A licensee holding a limited pilot license may not supervise the dockings and undockings required by 12 AAC 56.028.

(c) In addition to the requirements for licensure under 12 AAC 56.028, six trips as a pilot observer are required in order to be licensed in those areas identified by the board, in regulation, which are not specifically tested for by the United States Coast Guard and which the board has determined are areas where the difficulty of the route and the volume of shipping make additional observer trips necessary to adequately judge a pilot's competency in that area. At least one observer trip must be made within the three years immediately preceding the date of application. All observer trips required under this section must be made on vessels equipped with working radar, fathometer, and compass.

(d) Compliance with (c) of this section is required for all west coast waters of Prince of Wales Island inside a line drawn from Point Marsh to Cape Muzon; then directly to the southern extremity of Warren Island; then to Black Rock. The applicant must have completed enough observer trips to have transited each of the following areas six times:

(1) Warren Channel;

(2) Boca de Finas;

(3) San Christoval Channel;

(4) Tlevak Narrows;

(5) Hydaburg; and

(6) Sukkwan Strait from Hydaburg to Eek Point.

(e) Repealed 7/15/95.

(f) Repealed 7/15/95.

History: Eff. 7/26/90, Register 115; am 11/7/93, Register 128; am 5/17/95, Register 134; am 7/15/95, Register 135; am 6/16/96, Register 138; am 10/24/2002, Register 164

Authority: AS 08.62.040

AS 08.62.097

Editor's note: As of Register 149, April 1999, references to 12 AAC 56.030 and 12 AAC 56.040 were deleted by the regulations attorney from the text of 12 AAC 56.027(b) and (c), because 12 AAC 56.030 and 12 AAC 56.040 repealed by their own terms on January 1, 1999.