Government Boats 33

I wonder what the forgiveness factor for ice-against-hull here is.  Bravest surely was pretty in our maybe soon-to-end Puerto Parcialmente Blanco.

RB 45605 was the fifth in this series, which is numbered consecutively and now up to 45774.

Must precautions be taken with these hulls during ice season?

And finally . . . off the stern of Bering Sea yesterday it’s the current Kings Pointer.  This Kings Pointer started life as a solid rocket booster recovery vessel for NASA.

Click here for another photo of this vessel in NASA colors.

And here’s a photo I took back in August 2007 of the previous Kings Pointer, now known as General Rudder and based in Texas.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.