United States Coast Guard should put the red and blue "racing stripe" on the cabin sides of its new smaller vessels 1 cheer

Somewhere, somehow, our new vessels are just begging for the racing stripe.




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Should do this

Perhaps it would look like this… http://www.flickr.com/photos/usefulguy/1654439035/



No opinion

Why do we need a stripe on the side. The orange with contrasting white lettering does well… if you ask me.



Should do this

Because that angled stripe has been our identity and our history since 1967. And because unless there’s a distinctive stripe on the side, you can’t tell a USCG RB-S from a ICE RB-S or a NY State Department of Environmental Police RB-S, etc. etc. You can’t read the white lettering until you’re right on top of the vessel, but you can see that racing stripe and identify it as a CG vessel from a long way off.




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