The Luftwaffe used the same boat as the Kriegsmarine captain’s gig. The Luftwaffe used it however as a rescue boat to pick up downed aircrew in the Channel. Here is the boat in work. It is 1/35 scale. The pilot house had zero interior so I scratchbuilt what you see inside it. I added the hand bars on top of the house using evergreen strips. I primed it a bit to see how it was coming along and where extra attention needed to be applied.
The picture of gear that will be eventually added are from various 1/35 accessory kits. Will keep you posted on progress!
– Chris
Shenandoah Valley Modelers 
So these were used to retrieve aircrews that had landed in the Channel and taken refuge in the rescue buoys anchored there for just such a purpose. Those rescue buoys were pretty posh as “emergency shelters” go. My first apartment wasn’t as nice. My question is, did the RAF ever strafe the buoys/rescue boats or was that verboten?
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that rescue buoy would make for an interesting scratch build; they look sort of neat and you have to admit whoever thought of that had a great idea. I am sure the raf did not strafe them as that would have been “ungentlemanly”.
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