Crescent Harbor is Sitka's most centrally located small-boat harbor, sitting directly across from downtown and the totem poles of the Sitka National Historical Park. Rebuilt and reopened in 2020, it holds 365 permanent moorage vessels from 17 to 75 feet, with a pump-out station, shore power, and the full services of Sitka's five-harbor system within easy reach.
Crescent Harbor occupies one of the best pieces of waterfront real estate in Southeast Alaska, positioned at the east end of Lincoln Street with Sitka's historic Russian-era buildings on one side and the hemlock forests of the Sitka National Historical Park on the other. This is not an anonymous industrial basin — it is a working harbor embedded in a living town, where the smell of low tide mingles with fresh halibut from the cleaning table and the sound of totem-pole carvers at work in the park carries over the water on calm mornings.
The harbor was comprehensively rebuilt in 2019-2020 as a $12-million infrastructure project. The rebuilt facility covers 46,000 square feet of timber floats with 120 new slip structures and restores electrical service to all floats. Shore power is available in 30-amp (120V) and 50-amp configurations. One of Sitka's three municipal pump-out stations is located here.
Crevent Harbor is a permanent-permit facility; transient vessels are directed to Richard I. Eliason Sr. Harbor, roughly a mile up Katlian Street to the north. The harbor accommodates vessels from 17 to 75 feet across its 365 slips. Maximum LOA is 75 feet, with billing based on stall length or vessel length, whichever is greater.
Fuel is available nearby but not at a dock within Crescent Harbor itself. Petro Marine Services (614 Katlian St.) and Sitka Marine Industries both operate marine fuel facilities in the Thomsen/Eliason Harbor area, offering diesel and gasoline. Summer hours are typical 7-days-a-week service; Petro Marine runs extended early-morning and evening hours to accommodate commercial fleet schedules.
The harbor department office is at 617 Katlian St., adjacent to Thomsen Harbor, and maintains VHF working channel 14 (hail on 16). Office hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, with harbor personnel on the water seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. year-round. The harbor is within flat walking distance of Sitka's grocery stores, marine supply shops, the ferry terminal, and the Sitka Sound Science Center. For cruising boats visiting Sitka, the practical base is Eliason Harbor for transient tie-up, but Crescent Harbor anchors the southern end of the harbor system and frames the city's most photogenic approach.
Fuel and shore power available at Crescent Harbor.
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