US Coast Guard 82-Foot Patrol Boat — Peacetime Model, 30 in
US Coast Guard 82-Foot Patrol Boat — Peacetime Model, 30 in
How big is it?
Length about 76 cm / 30.0 in. Drawn to scale; the model outline is a simplified shape.
Model details
- Size
- 30 in / 76 cm
- Construction
- Handcrafted
- Condition
- Fully assembled, ready to display
- Display
- Wooden base with brass nameplate
- Collection
- Battle Ship Models
- Item no.
- C066
The same 82-foot cutter in peacetime service — white hull, racing stripe, unarmed.
Specification
- 30 inches
- Handcrafted hull and superstructure
- White scheme with Coast Guard racing stripe
- Wheelhouse, mast and deck fittings
- Mounted on a display base with nameplate
- Fully assembled
The stripe
The orange and blue slash on the bow was designed in 1964 by the industrial design firm Raymond Loewy Associates — the same office behind the Studebaker Avanti, the Shell logo and the interior of Air Force One.
The Coast Guard wanted its vessels distinguishable at a glance from Navy grey and from civilian traffic. The angled stripe reads instantly at distance and from the air, which matters when the people looking for you are in the water.
The boats
Point-class cutters served from 1960 into the 2000s on search and rescue, law enforcement and fisheries patrol — the routine work that occupies the service for all but a few years of its history.