As I am a member of the Coast Guard Art Program, "Set The Buoy" is my donation for their 2017 Art Collection. The painting is the result of my deployment to the Cutter Kukui in 2011 in Hawaii.
Crew from the Coast Guard Cutter Kukui is relaunching a navigation buoy after they had serviced it. Named after the state tree of Hawaii whose nut oil was once used to light navigation lamps, the Kukui is a 225-foot seagoing buoy tender. Home-ported in Honolulu, the Kukui is equipped with a global positioning system that permits the crew to service and accurately position floating aids to navigation.