[porkchops 4 mahound]

I see that you are a kindred soul of the distressed boater in the main article.

Where is there HATE for the Coastguard in any of my comments? (Those other folks just hate "JBT"/LEOs no matter what uniform they wear.)

I am an ex-USN Bluewater Shellback.

I operated with Coasties in Vietnam.

I've fished all commercial species of Alaska, from Dixon Entrance to the Slime Bank, to the Chukchi Sea, Kings and Opilio Crabs out of Dutch Harbor in November, to drifting 100 fathoms in the Kuskokwim in the summer.

I know the Coastguard, and they know me.

Hate has nothing to do with it.

But quit trying to blow Coastie recruiting smoke up my kilt.

Inter-service rivalry seems to distress some of the little ol civilian ladies who have nothing else to worry about.

I regret that, deeply.

[Ramius]

I don't know that there's HATE in your comments specifically, but there certainly is on this thread.

I think the coasties in this story are being unfairly painted and I'm rising to their defense. That's all.

I too have spent a lot of time in the gulf of Alaska, the Bering and above the arctic circle. I've been to Dutch, and St Paul, and Adak and lots of other places. I know what an eighty foot wave looks like up close and personal. :-)