Philadelphia Patriot
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Why are some Coast Guard ships white and others black?
Coast Guard Ship Question
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Old TexMex
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As I remember, Bouy tenders, canal marker service boat and
Barges, Buoy Boats and LCMs shall have black hulls above the upper edge of the antifouling paint.
Cutters and life boats have white hulls.
RIBs are orange or grey or black
White and orange are on law enforcement / rescue duty vessels, and black for maintenance duty.
I guess it's because white hulls don't look good being scraped up by bouys and pilings, so they paint them black.
Barges, Buoy Boats and LCMs shall have black hulls above the upper edge of the antifouling paint.
Cutters and life boats have white hulls.
RIBs are orange or grey or black
White and orange are on law enforcement / rescue duty vessels, and black for maintenance duty.
I guess it's because white hulls don't look good being scraped up by bouys and pilings, so they paint them black.
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Oldiron
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Don't forget the icebreakers. they are red/orange. Where they are easily found by the choppers, etc. Larry
vigil617
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A tip of the hat the the black-hull Coast Guard from a white-hull veteran.
Besides, if they weren't painted black, we couldn't have the acronym "BBBBBF."
Big Black Boat Back By Friday.
Besides, if they weren't painted black, we couldn't have the acronym "BBBBBF."
Big Black Boat Back By Friday.
Old TexMex
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Never heard that oneA tip of the hat the the black-hull Coast Guard from a white-hull veteran.
Besides, if they weren't painted black, we couldn't have the acronym "BBBBBF."
Big Black Boat Back By Friday.
I, personally, was on the LBMFTBs
Gripgrabber
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WOW! Never heard of the BBBBBF! That's cool. White boats HAVE to go out, but don't have to come back! Search and rescue and law enforcement
The black vessels are considered aids to navigation in there missions and jobs. Aka bouy boats. They do hard work and are under appreciated while keeping navigation lights burning and bouys on station. I did it for a couple of years at Long Island NY (group shinnecock)
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The black vessels are considered aids to navigation in there missions and jobs. Aka bouy boats. They do hard work and are under appreciated while keeping navigation lights burning and bouys on station. I did it for a couple of years at Long Island NY (group shinnecock)
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Oldiron
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Gripgrabber, yep leave the buoys to the tenders. We took a BM and 2 Sns out to a buoy about 100 miles out and landed to drop them and a zodiac out where they could change out a dead battery. Got so much salt in the engines that one of them went into compressor stall when we tried to take off. Bobbed around about an hour until they got through and our cover bird got there to pick them up. Running takeoff in 3-4' seas in a chopper is not a fun thing to do but since we had two of the pilots I would trust to fly us out of hell, we got up and safely back to base.
P.S. Our choppers were white, orange nose, with the red-white and blue racing stripes and poor excuses for buoy tenders. Larry
P.S. Our choppers were white, orange nose, with the red-white and blue racing stripes and poor excuses for buoy tenders. Larry
