Don't know if it really means anything, but the October 2007 isse of workboat magazine has a major article on how the post 9-11 environment has affected the industry by increasing the orders for patrolboats. Whether police, navy/coast guard of several types, even Army patrol boats. The kicker was that it was the cover story, and had a picture of a Coast Guard Auxiliary rec boat with PATROL signboards on the front cover.

Hocke, Ken (2007) Patrolmen Builders and suppliers continue to benefit from the sizzling patrol boat market vol64, no 10 Diversified Business Communications

Auxiliary members buy boats for patrolling too... That photo looks very familiar. Has it been in the Navigator in the last year or two?

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Originally posted by RiverAux:
Auxiliary members buy boats for patrolling too... That photo looks very familiar. Has it been in the Navigator in the last year or two?

Exactly. I know if I buy a boat any time soon, I'll have an eye out for deckspace, how would it do as a patrol boat, etc, in addition to whatever I'm actually buying it for.

Not sure if that's what the magazine was trying to reinforce, though. I think they just wanted a picture of a generic patrolbaot of some kind and slapped up a stock picture of a Coast Guard boat (and Helo) that happened to be aux.