What is your complaint here? The price of the boat? Have you shopped for boats lately? If they bought a decent patrol boat for a mere $68K then they are shopping better than I can....
You miss the point. Do they really need the boat? And do they really need the $250,000 to man it 24/7? Really?
So they got a free $68K boat. That's fine. That it costs a quarter-million $$$ per year to run isn't.
It's kinda like a friend's free horse. Not sure how she ended up with it, but it was free. The barn to house it wasn't free. The food to feed it wasn't free. The second horse to keep the first one company wasn't free. The grooming wasn't free. The training wasn't free. The saddles weren't free. The bridles weren't free. So much for a "free" horse.