Sitka to lose USCG Cutter Maple this summer

(Photo: USCG)Sitka’s docks will look a bit different this summer. The US Coast Guard Cutter Maple will sail south for maintenance and then be reassigned a new homeport in the spring, leaving Sitka without a large Coast Guard vessel for at least six months.
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Lt. Commander Patrick Armstrong is the officer in charge of the Coast Guard Cutter Maple.
“There’s been so many hours put on the engines and the generators and things just need to be rebuilt,” Armstrong