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The
USCGC ALDER's primary mission is aids to navigation. These aids
help provide the merchant fleet along with private vessels
with their safe navigation of the Great lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway.
Above she is in the process of setting bouys along the East
Channel entrance to Munising Bay in Munising, Michigan.
The
USCGC ALDER usually runs buoy
operations along Lake Superior in early winter and again in early spring. This
process runs for 8 to 10 weeks for both "commissioning" and
"decommissioning".
Anchor for typical bouy.
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Buoy Deck Area:
2,875 square feet
Inflatable Boat: 22
foot, rigid hull
Work Boat:
24 foot, aluminum
Buoy Crane
Boom length:
40 to 60 feet
Main Hoist Capacity:
40,000 lbs.
Aux. Hoist Capacity:
10,000 lbs.
Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat
All
Photographs by: Keith W. Churill
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