 Following a successful tour at New Haven, he was transferred to Station Sand Key in Clearwater Beach, Florida in 1994.In 1997, Bowen was assigned as the Officer-in-Charge of the in Newport, Rhode Island, until her decommissioning in April 1998.During May 1998 he was assigned as the Officer-in-Charge of , based in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; this cutter was first of the high-tech 87-foot (26.5 m) patrol boats on the east coast.