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7. Marine News - cont'd. May the Cat h e r i n e du rin g the delay. N a v i g a t i o n r e s u m e d late on the m o r n i n g of 16th, but wi t h i n hours the B a h a m i a n salty HA I G H T struck a fender at B e a u h ar no is Lock, and traffic was again halted, this time for two days! Since our last m e n t i o n of the ship in the M arch issue, readers may have w o n d er ed what had become of the dredge CHARLES R. HUNTLEY, one of the last of the former st eam canallers, w h i c h in latter years has been on the east coast. Last o p e r a t e d by A l e x a n d e r Hume Incorporated, of Etobicoke, the H U N T L EY la tte rly had lain idle at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and spent last winter at Port Hawkesbury, N . S. A l l e g e d l y to sati s f y the demands of creditors, the H U N T L E Y had been a d v e r t i s e d for sale, the agent for the ship being Verreault N a v i g a t i o n Inc., of Les Mechins, Quebec. We know not how the H U N T L E Y came to be at Mulgrave, N . S., but she was towed out of that port on M a y 26, 1993, by the Verrea ult tug K E T A V. This tug had brought the comp any's dredge PORT M E CHINS, the former LOCKEPORT, to Point Tupper, opposite Mulgrave. The m o v e m ent of the 19 26 - b u i l t H U N T L E Y (and we still do not know where she was ta ken, al tho ugh it m a y have been to Saint John, New Brunswick) might indicate that Verrea ult has more interest in the ship than just being agent for sale. Sunday, Ma y 23rd, was not a good day for the St. Catha r i n e s exc u r s i o n vessel G A R D E N CITY. On that afternoon, while she was a t t e m p t i n g to man o e u v r e in Port Dalhou sie harbour, from w h i c h she operates, GARDEN CITY lost power. She swung across the harb o u r and str uck six p l e asure boats moo r e d at one of the w ha rv es of the D a l h o u s i e Yacht Club. G A R D E N CITY e v e n t u a l l y was se cured to the club wharf, and there were no injuries. Port Da l h o u s i e harb o u r is a tre ac he ro us place for a ship the size of GA R D E N CITY to na vigate be cause of the eddies in the water caused by the weir alon gside what used to be Lock One of the third W e l l a n d Canal. A c c o r d i n g to the "Windsor Star" of August 3rd, trouble has been br ewing over plans of the new owners of the Boblo Island amusement park to phase out f e r ry service to the island from Gibraltar, Michigan, and to carry all p a s s e n gers from the doc k at A m h e r stburg, Ontario. N o r m a l l y two boats run to Boblo from Am her stb urg , whilst there are three U . S . -flag boats a v ailable to run from Gibraltar. This year, the park has a t t e m p t e d to obtain approval for the U . S. boats to run on the A m h e r s t b u r g line and has b egun the pro c e d u r e to b ri ng the U . S. b oats under the C a n adian flag. But mean while, a u t h o r i z a t i o n from several so urces is n e c e s s a r y to obtain t e m porary C a n a d i a n co asting p e r m i t s for the boats, w h i c h a l l e g e d l y do not meet C a n a d i a n safety standards, and there have be e n problems w i t h i m m i g r a t i o n o f ficials over the boats' U . S. crews. The di sp ute reached a head on Jul y 31, when park m a n a g e m e n t was un a b l e to obtain C a n a d i a n c o a s t i n g permits on short notice and long lines of peop le were stuck on Boblo u ntil the wee small hours of the f o l l o w i n g m o r n ing. This p r o m p t e d park o f f i c i a l s to t h r eaten to close Boblo e n t i r e l y unless the dispute was resolved. This whole s i t u a t i o n c e r t a i n l y is a far cry from those happy days wh e n the big steamers C O L U M B I A and STE. CLAIRE ca rr ied most of the park v i s it ors on their runs from d o w n t o w n Detroit. * * * * * M A R I N E H I S T O R I A N OF THE YEAR We would be ver y muc h remiss if we did not c o n g r a t u l a t e longtime T . M . H . S. me mber (who also sits on your e x e cutive committee), C a p t a i n John Leonard, who was d e s i g n a t e d "Marine H i s t o r i a n of the Year" for 1993 by the Marine H i s t o r i c a l So ci ety of Detroit, the award being made at that group's annual dinner me et in g at St. Clair, Michigan, in April. He was the 25th reci pient of this pr e s t i g i o u s award. Not only did John L e o n a r d spend man y years (42 of them, in fact) sailing in a number of famous lake vessels, but he has in recent years a d d r e s s e d the T . M . H . S. on several o c c asions w ith his i l l u s trated rem ini sc en ces. We c o n g r a t u l a t e h i m on his w e l l - d e s e r v e d honour. * * * * *