Talk:USCGC Point Brown

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After De-commissioning she went to C.U.N.Y., Kingsborough Community College as a research vessel. In 1999, due to a lack of maintenance causing fuel leaks she was put up in a shipyard for emergency repairs. The college gave her to the shipyard in lieu of payment for those needed repairs and her fate was uncertain. Enter Stew Sutherland, LCMDR U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.). Stew had served aboard a Point Class Cutter in Vietnam and has been an avid mariner all of his life. When he heard about the Point Brown and her possible scrapping, he sold his house, bought her, renamed her Lady B and moved aboard. He joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary and made her a "facility", allowing the USCGC Point Brown a second life serving the U.S.Coast Guard and the mariners in and around New York harbor and Raritan Bay as the U.S.C.G.Auxiliary Cutter Lady B. He maintains her at his own expense, (having spent several hundred thousand dollars on her in repairs and maintenance since buying her), and freely offers her for Coast Guard Auxiliary work including patrols, search and rescue, Operation Clear Channel and training exercises with Coast Guard Stations New York and Sandy Hook. She is rarely underway for anything other than Coast Guard Auxiliary work. Because of Stew she remains, Semper Paratus. However Point Brown retained her Cummins diesels.

The above paragraph was removed from the article because, while interesting and perhaps relevant to the history of Point Brown, is unreferenced and written in an unencyclopedic style. If the person who posted this would supply referencing, much of what has been removed could be included in the article and thereby complete the history of the cutter after it was decommissioned. As a retired Coast Guardsman, I wish that the Coast Guard Historian's Office had a better history on the services cutters, however, as a former Coast Guardsman I also know that budgets are always tight and operations do come first.

If the person who posted this would contact me on my talk page, I would be willing to see if this could be referenced in some way and help put the prose into a form that is more encyclopedic. The information is helpful and interesting, but it can't go into an article in its present form. Cuprum17 (talk) 18:21, 27 November 2012 (UTC)