Alaska state ferry service is getting closer to normal, even though passenger loads are far from normal.
Even the Matanuska, the oldest operating vessel in the fleet, has come back to service. Engine problems forced the ferry out of service in January, stranding travelers throughout Southeast and, due to the unavailability of any other working boat in the fleet, leaving Haines and Skagway without service for seven weeks until the Tazlina was brought out of…