Wrangell will go without state ferry service for the last week of March and first week of April as the ships are scheduled to meet other needs across coastal communities.
There will be no northbound service to Wrangell between March 22 and April 10, and no southbound stops in town between March 25 and April 12.
The schedule will return to normal later in April, with a weekly northbound sailing on Fridays and a weekly southbound stop on Mondays. That will switch to southbound on Wednesdays and northbound on Sundays with the start of the summer schedule in mid-May.
The Kennicott, which has been serving Wrangell this winter, is being diverted for a cross-Gulf of Alaska run to Yakutat, Whittier, Kodiak and Homer that will pull it off its Southeast route March 30 to April 12. Those communities have been without any service this winter while the Tustumena has been at the shipyard for its annual overhaul and maintenance.
The Hubbard will make a northbound stop in Wrangell on April 10 — the first ever for the 5-year-old ferry — as it helps to fill in for the missing Kennicott that week, bringing students to Sitka for an annual music festival, said Sam Dapcevich, spokesman for the Alaska Department of Transportation.
The rest of March and April, the Hubbard is covering for the LeConte in Lynn Canal due to delays at the shipyard with the LeConte’s annual winter maintenance.
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