{"id":52025,"date":"2019-08-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/coast-guard-vessel-kukui-open-for-public-tours-in-juneau\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T21:00:00","slug":"coast-guard-vessel-kukui-open-for-public-tours-in-juneau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/coast-guard-vessel-kukui-open-for-public-tours-in-juneau\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard vessel Kukui open for public tours in Juneau"},"content":{"rendered":"

The USCGC Kukui<\/em>, a Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender, will be open Wednesday for public tours from 1-4 p.m.<\/p>\n

The ship is moored at Coast Guard Station Juneau downtown. The ship is in Juneau for the annual Buoy Tender Roundup, a once yearly training event and competition for Coast Guard buoy tender crews in the region. <\/p>\n

Anyone wanting to visit the ship should have a photo ID. The Kukui<\/em> is homeported in Sitka.<\/p>\n


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\u2022 Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at 523-2271 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/p>\n