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Buoy tending meant going where other captains wouldn’t
Note: This remembrance was submitted by Sam Smith, editor of the Progressive Review (prorev.com), after he read The Working Waterfront’s recent story, “Tales of the ‘Buoy Snatchers.’” The Spar was 180 feet long. Unlike most Coast Guard cutters that were painted barn-siding white, the buoy tenders had black hulls and white superstructures. We sometimes referred