You could come up in crossing if you had time. I would plan on not making the trip from Cape Spencer to Cordova in less than a month. Could make it in a few days but just wouldn't plan on it. There are a few people that live year around at Cape Yakutaga (might be able to arrange for fuel there from Yakutat since that is where their mail is flown in from). I would come up in May and return by mid to late July for the best weather window. You wouldn't be;lieve the weather int hat neck of the woods in September and October. Ten to fifteen foot breakers on the beach are not unusual.
As for PWS you have gotten good advice. I like the Dangerous Passage and Bainbridge area myself, but as has been stated, the Kenai Fiords is far more rich biologically than the Sound. There is a lodge operation in Chenega (can't remember its name). You might try and call them from Valdez or inquire at the harbor to find out about fuel. If you could count on it, I would work my way across the Northern Sound to Whittier hitting all the glaciers, etc., and then head south through Culross, down Dangerous (poke around Granite, Paddy, Ewan, Jackpot bays, and maybe into Icy Bay depending on ice) to Bainbridge and then to Chenega for fuel. Then circumnavigate Knight, then to Green , North side of Montague, maybe to Cordova to see the town and get fuel, then up the east side. I often carry 100 gallons of gas, so I don't have to refuel in my spring and fall trips to the Sound. Whittier is such a pain in the butt, I generally avoid it from Memorial to Labor Day. Yearn for the days before the tunnel when I had the Bainbridge area about to myself - those days are gone forever, or at least until gas is $15/gallon. Have a photo of Bainbridge in my album if you are interested.
P.S. One piece of advice. If you are out near ocean entrances in places like Cape Cleare, Cape Puget, Cape Resurrection, and especially the area in lower Cook Inlet around Elizabeth Island or by Gore Point, you need to be very careful if there is much wind blowing. When the current runs around those points against the wind, even a breeze in lower Cook Inlet, you can find yourself in a washing machine of localized nasty seas. I have seen the current cause 2-3 foot chop without a breath of air near Elizabeth. Put even a 10 not breeze running against the current and a 22 foot C-Dory starts to seem pretty small. Don't have the time for the whole story, but I damn near turned my boat over one late October day at Cape Resurrection. That day it took me 5 1/2 hours to make the 17 miles to Seward from the Cape. Learned a pretty good lesson that day, then went directly to the bar and didn't leave until it closed.
As for PWS you have gotten good advice. I like the Dangerous Passage and Bainbridge area myself, but as has been stated, the Kenai Fiords is far more rich biologically than the Sound. There is a lodge operation in Chenega (can't remember its name). You might try and call them from Valdez or inquire at the harbor to find out about fuel. If you could count on it, I would work my way across the Northern Sound to Whittier hitting all the glaciers, etc., and then head south through Culross, down Dangerous (poke around Granite, Paddy, Ewan, Jackpot bays, and maybe into Icy Bay depending on ice) to Bainbridge and then to Chenega for fuel. Then circumnavigate Knight, then to Green , North side of Montague, maybe to Cordova to see the town and get fuel, then up the east side. I often carry 100 gallons of gas, so I don't have to refuel in my spring and fall trips to the Sound. Whittier is such a pain in the butt, I generally avoid it from Memorial to Labor Day. Yearn for the days before the tunnel when I had the Bainbridge area about to myself - those days are gone forever, or at least until gas is $15/gallon. Have a photo of Bainbridge in my album if you are interested.
P.S. One piece of advice. If you are out near ocean entrances in places like Cape Cleare, Cape Puget, Cape Resurrection, and especially the area in lower Cook Inlet around Elizabeth Island or by Gore Point, you need to be very careful if there is much wind blowing. When the current runs around those points against the wind, even a breeze in lower Cook Inlet, you can find yourself in a washing machine of localized nasty seas. I have seen the current cause 2-3 foot chop without a breath of air near Elizabeth. Put even a 10 not breeze running against the current and a 22 foot C-Dory starts to seem pretty small. Don't have the time for the whole story, but I damn near turned my boat over one late October day at Cape Resurrection. That day it took me 5 1/2 hours to make the 17 miles to Seward from the Cape. Learned a pretty good lesson that day, then went directly to the bar and didn't leave until it closed.
Well, here ve go! Since my fellow Alaskan brats are all out to do each other I should jump in mentioning our trip last august. I tell you, it was a perfect storm for sure at Aliak and the seas so high that when ve were in the troughs; 5300ft mountain's disappeared!
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