Lighting
Marine Patrol has a small full-time maintance staff, who handle a large assortment of tasks. In addition to removing nav aides, they need to winterize and store all of the NHMP boats before temps really drop, and that takes time. Like many have mentioned, this weather is unseasonable warm, but there is no way of knowing that in advance.
Like Secondcurve said, most people consider Columbus Weekend the end of the boating season, so it is a logical time to start to prepare for the winter...
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