Baird Maritime has a report on an impressive new Spanish built 38 knot 21.5 meter (70.5′) motor lifeboat.
This is a bit larger than the proposed replacement for the 52 MLBs.
Chuck Hill's CG Blog
Baird Maritime has a report on an impressive new Spanish built 38 knot 21.5 meter (70.5′) motor lifeboat.
This is a bit larger than the proposed replacement for the 52 MLBs.
Chuck Hill's CG Blog 
Looks impressive
Dear Santa……………….
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What ever happened to the RFP for the 52 footer replacement? Seems to have died on the vine.
Only six tons towing pull??
From what I have read the stations are using two 47 footers to handle the bigger vessels. In one recent case a 47 was dispatched but remained on scene until a 210 from Astoria arrived.
I get the impression that there will be no replacement for the 52 footers.
I think it is more that contracting for everything is deadly slow to because of the care needed to avoid litigation. Big cutter take ten years to see results. Smaller ones might take three or four.
Maybe we should just lease a few small commercial tugboats until they can get something built. You can run a commercial tug with the same size crew as a 52.
Dear Santa……
I want one and I don’t care how you deliver it to me
Maybe we can get the Army to loan us some LT or ST class tugs if they haven’t gotten rid of them all yet.