The Coast Guard is offering public tours in Juneau of its new cutter Bailey Barco on Thursday and Friday.
The 154-foot fast-response cutter is the second of six Sentinel-class cutters that will homeport in Alaska, and the 17th District’s second fast-response cutter. It’s capable of independent operation for about five days.
The Bailey Barco will be moored near downtown Juneau. Tours will be available 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday.
Tour participants are asked to wear closed-toe shoes for safety. Large bags will not be permitted on board.
The cutter is named after a Stationkeeper Bailey T. Barco, who the Coast Guard said was instrumental in saving survivors of a schooner that ran aground during a severe winter storm in 1900.
It will be commissioned in a closed ceremony today.
Later, it will join the cutter John McCormick at Coast Guard Station Ketchikan.
