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2. d inner c h o i c e , must be r e c e i v e d by Tuesday, Ma y 5th. We regret that there can be no refun ds after that date, and that tickets will not be sold at the door. Also, those w i s h i n g to att en d the TIT AN IC pro g r a m m e must also att en d the dinner, as bot h will be held in the same small room. Please reserve e arly to ensure that there will be space av ai lable for you and your p arty to a ttend what p r o mises to be a ver y sp ecial event. In the N e w M e m b e r D e p a r t m e n t , a he a r t y Ward's Island, Toronto. * * * welc o m e * * goes out to La urie Jones, of M A R I N E NEWS It would seem that there will be pas s e n g e r service acro ss Lake Onta r i o this summer, and that not just one but at least two sep ar at e op er ators ma y be i n volved. TNR (Toronto N i a g a r a Roch es te r) Corp or at io n, Toronto, plans to run two 300-passenger, h i g h - s p e e d cat amarans be tween To ronto and Port Dalhousie, wit h each c r o s s i n g e x p ected to take only 45 minutes, and in a d d i t i o n there will be one trip per day betw e e n To ronto and Ro chester. The first of the twin-hull vess e l s was l a u nched r e c e n t l y in Norway, and bot h are e x p e c t e d at Toronto by e arly May, wi th y e a r - r o u n d se rvice to be i n a u g u r a t e d by June 1st. The one-way fare on the Niag a r a route is e x p e c t e d to be about $ 1 3 . 00 plus taxes. A second company, C a n a d i a n Lake Expre ss Ltd., Toronto, hopes to begin an A p r i l - t o - O c t o b e r servi ce betw e e n Toro n t o and N i a g a r a u sing two 68passenger, R u s s i a n - d e s i g n e d hy dr ofoils, and c o n c e n t r a t i n g on the tourist market. Their c r o ssing is also ex pected to take about 45 minutes, but a o n e way fare of $25 to $30 is conte mp la te d. A third concern, T r a n s p o r t a t i o n Alternatives, of Burlington, hopes to enter the cross - l a k e pas s e n g e r trade but has yet to anno un ce its plans. C o n s i d e r i n g that there has been no r e g u l a r l y - s c h e d u l e d pas s e n g e r service ac ross Lake On tario that has lasted for more than one full sea so n since the old CA Y U G A made her last c r o ssing on Labour Day in 1957, we wonder whet h e r even one, muc h less two or three such operations will be able to attract enough busi ne ss to survive. We wis h the operators well in their i n t e r e s t i n g end ea vo ur s. .. The tug BAYP ORT (II), (a) BA NSWIFT (60), w h i c h has bee n lying idle at H a m i l ton since 1981, and was at Toro nt o for almost a de cade before that, r e p o r tedly has been ac quired by the City of Hamilton, w h i c h will put her into a land berth beside the Leander Boat Club, where she will form part of the $ 2 . 2 m i l l i o n Pier 4 Park project. Spru c e d up from her pr esent d i l a p i d a t e d condition, and w ith "rubber m a t t i n g over the decks" and the hull "frozen forever in a wav y asphal t sea", the tug will become a "creative play s t r u c ture", acc o r d i n g to a recent artic le in the H a m i l t o n "Spectator". BAYPORT, built in 1945 at Kingston, first se rved at Hali f a x and, be g i n n i n g in 1960, was used by Canada S t eamship Lines as a winter i c ebreaker at the Bayports. In 1973, she was ac quired by M e r i d a n ( reportedly a m i s - s p e l l i n g of " M e r i dian") Marine Ltd., Scarb or ou gh , and the 1991 C a n adian regis te r still shows "Meridan" as the owner, desp it e the fact that the press report indic at es that the tug is being a c q u i r e d by the Cit y from McKeil Marine. BAYPORT (II) never was a g o o d - l o o k i n g tug, but her appe a r a n c e was fore ve r ruine d when, in 1978, she was give n the pilot h o u s e w h i c h had been remo v e d from the former Halco tanker CAPE TR ANSPORT. This p i l o t h o u s e was far too large for the tug, and took up the entire w i d t h of the fo rward end of her upp er deck. Meanwhile, Mc K e i l Mari ne has also d i s p o s e d of the tanker barge CAPE TRANSPORT, w h i c h came into its fleet a few years ago after years of i d l e ness. Late in December, M c K eil's tugs GL E N B R O O K and LAC M A N I T O B A arriv ed with CAPE T R A N S P O R T at Windsor, where A . D. M. A g g r e g a t e s Indu st ri es Ltd. will use the barge for the storage of v e getable oils. Owner John Letnik r e p o r t e d l y e n c o u n t e r e d prob le ms this winter wit h his r e s taurant ship NORMAC, w h i c h has been m o o r e d for the past several seasons in Cl e v e l a n d ' s N orth Coast Harbor, at the foot of East 9th Street. Le t n i k has comp l a i n e d that the m o o rings of "Capt ai n John's Se afood Re st aurant" have been damaged by water fluctuations in the harb ou r as a result of winte r