Driving our homebuilt rig to Alaska....questions

This info is second-hand, so I can't vouch for it -- but I knew someone who was a fisherman in the Valdez area who said that there are waterlogged logs in the coastal waters that can easily puncture a hull. He called them "sleepers" -- he said that they are very hard to see or to avoid. I would think that a sailboat, which does not stop on a dime, would be at risk.

But I don't really know if this risk is significant or just occasional.