Comments on: Mother of all Keepers

By: Ackboater

Ackboater — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:24:12 +0000

I’ve always wondered why they only replace the #2 buoy at the start of the fairway with an ice buoy every winter. What about the rest of the buoys in the fairway?

By: Greg Creedon

Greg Creedon — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:35:47 +0000

Like all CG cutters, the buoy tenders are multi-mission. One day they can be replacing buoys; the next, conducting fisheries law enforcement boardings; the next, enforcing a maritime security zone. The coastal tenders this time of year tend to have a work list of various aids to navigation all along the coast, particularly is the area what used to be called Group Woods Hole (I think it’s called Sector Woods Hole now) – basically from Duxbury or so, the Cape and Islands, down to the Rhode Island/Conn. border. A lot of buoys that need to be visited a couple of times a year. I don’t know if they still do it, but Dan Kelliher, George Bassett and others took the 5th grade out on a tender for a day. Always a fun time.

By: Ackboater

Ackboater — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:48:41 +0000

Well I know she replaced the ice buoy #2 with the regular one. Not sure what other buoys she was tending today. It was too foggy to see her working.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:42:12 +0000

Do you know what she is doing here?

By: Ackboater

Ackboater — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:38:27 +0000

PS: Looks like she has the ice buoy #2 from the entrance to the fairway on her deck.

By: Ackboater

Ackboater — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:19:17 +0000

Nice shots. I’ve got a bunch of pictures of her on my blog. Always interesting to go down when she comes here and have a look. She’s an impressive ship.