Floating o'er the waves: Seattle boatbuilder constructs large hovercraft to serve remote Alaskan village.(INNOVATIVE USES of HORSEPOWER)

From: Diesel Progress North American Edition | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Marsh, Peter | Copyright information

Situated 650 miles from Anchorage on the tip of the Alaska Peninsula, where the Aleutian Islands chain begins, is the village of King Cove, Alaska. While having a population of only around 1000, it is the site of the Peter Pan Seafoods cannery, one of the largest fish canneries in North America. With the bi-weekly summer ferry taking several days to work its way to Dutch Harbor and back, like most parts of Alaska, King Cove is dependent on aircraft to maintain a connection with Anc...

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