You guys know I like to read history. Currently I am reading this book, a bit slow going as you need to digest it, but I will do a report in the book thread when finished.
Not your "normal" SOG book this is all the behind the scenes stuff. If you are looking for combat accounts this is not it. If you want to know why everything was so fucked up, this IS your book. 3/4 way through and I have been thinking for the past couple chapters, there is no way it would have worked, it was setup to fail. Had to be, no one can be this stupid.
Anyhoo.
One of the well known things around this stuff is a Nasty boat. A "little" boat from Norway that the US used as it fit several holes that needed filled. Finally Norway said no more boats, but if you want to make them yourself you can. Cool.
The US "improved them".
They now are more heavy, rode higher in the water, would bend and crack the hull. The class of boat was called the Osprey.
I have not done much looking, but when looking for "brown water navy" stuff in Vietnam, PBR, easy (think every vietnam movie with a boat on brown water), swift, monitors....whatever you can find all kinds of things. But the Osprey, that one is a little more difficult.