The USCG 40-foot Utility Boat

[BuoyJumper]

Welcome aboard George and thanks for posting. 
Have a great CG DAY and we will see you around the forums.     

[vftb]

Welcome aboard George, glad to have you 

[EX-CG-GM]

Welcome aboard george. Talk real nice and maybe Bugsey will let you have a turn at the helm on his personal 40'.

[Zoomer]

Welcome George!

Ya...gotta agree....nice handling boat, those 40's could make a crappy coxswain look good
Anybody know if ya can walk a 41?

[georgepat]

Hi Zoomer,

I don't know about walking a 41'. My only connection to it was the ferry job. After that it was turned over to others for trials or whatever they did with it.

I do remember though, the Captain's launch at Yorktown was an older steel 30+ footer with a single tunnel prop. Driving that was a friggin nightmare. You were at the mercy of the winds and any chop. I prayed that the skipper had other things to do on those days. 

I spent many hours inside her cabin doing coxcombing on all the bright work, wheel etc. Did cut down on all the spit and polish though!

Georgepat

[BuoyJumper]

TAPS for CG-40426



The two photos above are from the collection of EM2 veteran Carl Sarnoff.  According to Carl the 40426 was lost in the spring of 1972 at Sand City, Monterey Bay responding to a false Mayday. The crew swam ashore, called it in from a payphone.  Later it was hauled off on a flatbed truck with help from Ft. Ord engineers.

[Zoomer]

Hmmm....small wonder why they called it "Sand City"

Thanks for posting the pics Ron.

Too bad...beautiful boat.....

[BuoyJumper]

Ken Sutherland's photos of CGSTA New York's 40394














What appears to be the end for 40394 but later she's rescued from being scrapped.

[BuoyJumper]

Corey Markus' Governors Island 40-footers around 1976

[BuoyJumper]

Some Michigan 40-footers from the Frank (Wack)erle collection

[BuoyJumper]

Base New Orleans CG-40459 taken in 1965

[Zoomer]

40305-D

What did they do   convert a 40 boat to a black hull?
Or was that some sort of a speciality boat that we on the west coast never seen.....OK, at least me....

[Jack]

Zoomer - there was a 40' buoy boat made that looks just like the one in the photo, however according to my book the boats were numbered 40365 D ro 40368 D. A more confusing mystery is the 40400, the only boat with that number that I can recall is the double ended 40 that was designed for ice operations in Deaths Door and Green Bay. The one listed does not look like the one I recall and my registry only shows that boat listed .

[BuoyJumper]

Jack .... we covered the story behind the 40300 back on page three of this thread. 
Here's the LINK

Here's some more photos of that rather odd forty from the collection of Frank (Wack)erle
from when Wack was stationed on the 180-foot buoy tender WOODBINE.

[Zoomer]

WOW!  That one looks longer than 40 feet.
Looks like a precursor to the 44MLB...alot of simularities