USCG's 180-foot Seagoing Buoy Tender

[EX-CG-GM]

Wow, time flies!  Yep, having them rearmed is quite impressive.

[BuoyJumper]

Came across this outstanding photo of the decommissioned BRAMBLE by K.L. Macke

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I saw that picture too Ron, great stuff    Glad you found it, I was pretty busy yesterday but was going to bring it to your attention today.

[Zoomer]

Outstanding photo   Great composition!

[EX-CG-GM]

Awesome picture.      Where was it taken?

[BuoyJumper]

Where was it taken?

Stan .... it was taken at the Pine Grove Park dock, Port Huron, Michigan

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Here is the best video I have ever seen on diving the former CGC SPAR.

[BuoyJumper]

By: News Tribune, Duluth News Tribune
Published March 25 2010

Sundew owner plans to move
vessel soon, but keeps plans quiet
Twin Ports businessman Jeff Foster remains close-mouthed about his plans for the
retired U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sundew even as his employees are preparing it to sail again.
 


DULUTH — Twin Ports businessman Jeff Foster remains close-mouthed about his plans for the retired U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sundew even as his employees are preparing it to sail again.

“It’s still developing.” he said. “We plan on having a lot of fun with the vessel. If everything goes as we hope, it will divide its time this summer between the slip I have in Superior, a slip at Bayfront and, of course, out on the lake.

“We’re still hopeful that we will have it under way the first of May,” he said.

Foster, owner of Jeff Foster Trucking Inc., is reluctant to share more specific plans.

“It’s coming right along,” he said Wednesday, after giving a friend a tour of the ship. “There are six engines onboard and we have two of them going, so we are a third of the way there.”

The engines that are running help provide electrical and hydraulic power to the ship. Foster is awaiting the results of an analysis of oil in the engines before doing more work on the engines that propel the 180-foot-long vessel.

The Sundew will be moored near Bayfront Festival Park when the tall ships are in town, Foster said. It also will be the site of an August benefit dinner for Woodland Hills treatment center.

The Sundew was donated to the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center for use as a floating museum in 2004. The ship failed to attract a sufficient number of visitors to cover the costs of docking, maintaining and staffing it during the tourist season, and the DECC put it up for sale last year. Foster offered just over the minimum bid of $100,000 for the ship. His was the only qualifying bid.

Original Article

[JekelKat]

Intriguing. I'm interested in seeing the final result for sure!

[BuoyJumper]

BASSWOOD for sale on Craig's List:

180' Steel Freighter/research - $95000 (Rio Vista)



180' Steel Ex Coast Guard Buoy Tender 22 ton crane, cargo hold, sleeps 55, new mains with 10,000 hrs, hydraulic crane for small boats, 30,000 galons fuel, 30,000 gallons of water, watermaker, needs paint on the exterior, needs electronics, needs oil and batteries to start up mains, potential jobs for the boat, Ice Classed (was used as a ice breaker in the Great Lakes), has been to the South Pacific and Vietnam, Diesel Electric, V8-645 EMD Diesel Mains (two), can haul freight, do research jobs, be a expedition yacht, be a ice breaker, will trade for motor sailor of similar value.

curt@calequipment.com
415 531 8546

Location: Rio Vista

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/boa/1660201733.html

[EX-CG-GM]

Hey Hans, there's your OPFAC for when you are doing your CG AUX stuff!   

[Zoomer]

Where the  has he been anyway.....gonna give him a call tomorrow......

[EX-CG-GM]

Where the  has he been anyway.....gonna give him a call tomorrow......

I think the poor guy has finally started getting busy with his work.  I prefer being retired......

[BuoyJumper]

All thirty-nine of our USCG 180-foot buoy tenders.



Remember to click on 480p resolution for better photos.

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Acker Bilk

Ron....do you own a tripod.....or were you trying to make the 180's look like they were underway

Great production!