---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 162.240"
title: "33"
number: "162.240"
heading: "Tongass Narrows, Alaska; navigation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/162.240"
---

# §162.240. Tongass Narrows, Alaska; navigation.

- (a) **Definitions.** The term “Tongass Narrows” includes the body of water lying between Revillagigedo Channel and Guard Island in Clarence Strait.
- (b) No vessel, except for public law enforcement and emergency response vessels, floatplanes during landings and take-offs, and vessels of 23 feet registered length or less, shall exceed a speed of 7 knots in the region of Tongass Narrows bounded to the north by Tongass Narrows Buoy 9 and to the south by Tongass Narrows East Channel Regulatory marker at position 55°19′22.0″ N, 131°36′40.5″ W and Tongass Narrows West Channel Regulatory marker at position 55°19′28.5″ N, 131°39′09.7″ W, respectively.
- (c) No vessel shall while moored or at anchor, or by slow passage or otherwise while underway, unreasonably obstruct the free passage and progress of other vessels.
- (d) No vessel shall moor or anchor to any structure of the United States other than mooring piers, wharves, and floats without the consent of the Commander, Sector Southeast Alaska.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGD 75-082, 42 FR 51759, Sept. 29, 1977]

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 70034; DHS Delegation No. 00170.1, Revision No. 01.3.

### Source

Source: CGD 75-082, 42 FR 51759, Sept. 29, 1977, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[CGD 75-082, 42 FR 51759, Sept. 29, 1977]