Since I usually row out of the Bellingham Bay Community Boating Center, situated between a Coast Guard small boat station, Puglia Engineering's Fairhaven Shipyard, the Bellingham Ferry Terminal, All American Marine and Aluminum Chambered Boats, I figured I'd coin a new blog series "Saw Rowing."
Earlier this week, while rowing passed Puglia Engineering's Fairhaven Shipyard, I saw that they had two Coast Guard cutters at their dock side: The Maplewood, a buoy tender out of Sitka, Alaska, and the Acushnet, out Ketchikan, Alaska. I believe the Acushnet is the oldest Coast Guard cutter in operation. The waters were calm and I had the perfect chance to get a good shot of her from the unprotected side of the yard's dock. But, of course, I didn't have my camera with me.
So I went back out this morning in my little shell to get a nice photo for this blog post but the waters weren't quite kind enough to get to the other side of the dock this time. Instead I got a photo from the far side of the dry dock. You can see scaffolding built up around a vessel's superstructure, as well as the bridge of what looks like the Maple. Earlier this week I saw the lettering of the Acushnet, but the vessel I photographed today does not have the hull numbers of the Acushnet. So, now all I can report is that the Fairhaven Shipyard is keeping itself busy and that Coast Guard vessels are somehow involved. That, and that I'm getting out rowing enough now to build up some nice blisters.