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Geoff Miller Geoff  Miller is offline
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Default Scrapped vessels haunt Coast Guard



writes:

Here in SW Fla they seem to like RIBs for small boats.


The RIBs seem to have largely supplanted the sleek 41-
footers that came into service in the late Seventies.


They do have a "Point" cutter.


Cutters with "Point" names were originally 82-foot
patrol boats. I'm not sure whether some of the names
have been transferred to the new 87s, or some of the
82s are still around, or both.

(There was a contemporary class of 95-footers, all of
which are gone now. Their names begane with "Cape.")



Geoff

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