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Fourth-generation tug captain learned to walk on family's boats

Not many people see Anchorage from the water. Upper Cook Inlet, with its mammoth tides and treacherous currents, attracts barely any boaters.

But tugboat captain Katrina Anderson has been staring at the downtown skyline from the silty waters of the Inlet for her entire life, summer and winter, morning and midnight. She does not get seasick, she says. She gets landsick.