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Welcome to the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, District 17
America's Last Frontier and Gateway to the Arctic.
The U.S. Coast Guard, Seventeenth District, has the responsibility of watching over 33,000 miles of Alaska coastline, more than all of the Lower 48 coastline combined. Our state has over 3 million lakes, also! Some of our coastal communities have CG provided SAFE Boats and we have numerous private boats manned by trained Auxiliary volunteer coxswains and crews. On some of our interior rivers the Auxiliary utilize Personal Water Craft or Riverboats. This flexibility to adapt has helped extend the reach of the Coast Guard into many remote areas in efforts to save lives and property. Sometimes our Auxiliarists are the first responders to the emergencies. Alaska Auxiliary members and a “Coastie Tugboat” are also promoting boating safety to native pioneers in our state. We teamed up with the Coast Guard by taking boating safety outreach missions to remote Alaska villages from the Northwest and Arctic Coasts, to Interior Alaska native villages along the Yukon River, to the Alaska-Canada Highway and down the Southeast Alaskan Inside Passage. When the next request comes for us to teach Alaskans about boating safety in a new territory – We will be there.
Our Auxiliarists teach boating safety classes each spring and fall, complete boating safety presentations at outdoor recreation shows, perform dockside or drive-thru vessel safety checks, watchstanding at our only Official Coast Guard Auxiliary Railroad Caboose - Station Whittier - in the beautiful Prince William Sound. Our Auxiliarists spent two to three weeks on the remote island of St. Paul in the Bearing Sea, during the 2008 Crab Season("The Deadliest Catch" fishery) augmenting Coast Guard personnel as they assisted the Crab Fishermen. Each District 17 flotilla has challenges relative to their area, but they offer unique boating experiences unlike anywhere else in the world.
Our members operate on rivers, lakes and near coastal waters from Southeast Alaska to Barrow Alaska. Most of our members can be found in one of 14 community flotillas:
Division 1: Ketchikan, Sitka, Petersburg, Juneau
Division 2: Kodiak, Homer, Kenai, Seward, Whittier
Division 3: Anchorage, Eagle River, Mat-Su, Fairbanks, Valdez
The Auxiliary has exciting adventures, we receive satisfaction from helping others in need, we receive great member training, mentoring, assistance from the Coast Guard, and we enjoy a lot of fun and fellowship. Most importantly, our boating friends have become family.
We invite you to join our Coast Guard Auxiliary Family, share the unique opportunities we have to offer. Whatever skills you possess and you would like to share with the Auxiliary, we have a place for you in District Seventeen. You do not need a boat to be an active member of our team. You just need to have the desire and commitment to help save someone's life.
Welcome to Alaska!
Commodore Roy Stoddard,
District 17
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