The one thing that I remember about Belle Isle Marina is that the Coast Guard would come out of their station there to search my vessel whenever we came in after dark, which was all of the time. I never did have too much use for them after they wouldn’t go to the rescue of the fellows on the Eagle II when they went over the South Jetties during a storm. Those were the fellows that froze solid floating around in a fish box after the wreck.
Yes, I remember my dad telling me that they sucked, contributing to his (and my grandfather’s, a Navy man) low opinion of the branch.