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Marine News July 2025 • Volume 36 Number 7

Contents

Features 18 18 Have a Mission? The USCG has a Boat for That The Coast Guard (including its heritage services) have employed boats since the beginning. Boats are just as important, if not more so, than ever.

By Ned Lundquist 24 24 US Navy: Boats are ‘Indispensible’ For the USN, boats perform missions from mundane maintenance to clandestine special forces insertion and extraction. By Ned Lundquist 30 30 Boatyard: Domestic Backlog Builds A rundown of recent, signature projects. By Barry Parker 36 Boatyard: The Trump Effect Much political focus is on reinvigorating U.S. shipyards; industry waits with cautious optimism. By Greg Trauthwein

Gladding-Hearn Laborde Products Textron photo U.S. Coast Guard photo 36 4 Editor’s Note 10 Training 14 Thought Leadership Cold Starts and Rare Scenarios: Rise of the Blue-Collar Worker Preparing for the Unlikely at Sea By Robert Shuford, CEO, 6 Authors

By Heather Combs, CEO, Ripple Mobile Pulley 8 Washington Watch 12 Offshore Energy Transfer of Deepwater Ports 42 Vessels Regulatory Authority over from Restoring U.S. Offshore Energy 45 Products USCG to MARAD is Ill-advised Dominance: Momentum Is Real 46 Classi