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V2 ss the Latest issue of Boats & Harbors Maga- zine has a picture of THE STRAITS OF MACKINAC in a for sale ad from Peter- son Builders. The ad says "Presently coal fired, but can be dieselized" so apparently she is still in operatable condition. No price is given. C & O has told the government that they will continue to carry passen- gers on their Lake Michigan Ferries. They also admit that the ferries con- tributed $1.4 million to their income last year. PEERLESS will not sail for "a month or two" as the new dock at Detroit is not ready. ROBERT C. NORTON has 8 or 9 cargoes in a new trade-phosphate rock from Chicago to Toledo. Andersons' at Toledo. ROGER BLOUGH is way behind schedule and we hear that WILLIAM P. PALMER PHIPPS are now fitting out at Superior as of April 29. Polish saltie ZAWIERCE arrived at Detroit and got a warm reception from on April 29 the local Polish population. Capital Dredge & Dock has a $6.8 million contract to resume work on the badly-dam- aged Detroit water intake above Port Huron. Aetna Insurance paid off $6,138,400 for last December's damage. Now they are going to tunnel up from the bottom of the lake using the long tunnel from shore. What's left of the crib will be used as a base during further construction and then dismantled. Due to the late start and the demand for ore, we may see some of the presently laid up boats fitting out. ZENAVA (ex REDFERN) struck a reef, caught fire and sank in the St. Law- rence off Newfoundland's Burin Penin- sula. No one was lost. She was apparently being towed to a job as a portable fish processing plant. She loads herself from River barges at Chicago and unloads herself at and HENRY bem a President Nixon has proposed that Congress make Lake Erie's West Sis- ter Island a national wilderness area. SILVER BAY was towed out of Cleve- land on April 30 by LAWRENCE C. TUR- NER for Lorain. Reportedly she will be drydocked and if o.k. will be pur- chased by Kinsman. When a vessel without holding tanks now docks at South Chicago the un- loading rigs deposit two outhouses on the deck and the crew has to use these as long as the vessel is in port. GEORGE M. HUMPHREY, at the Poe Lock at 11:30 p.m. on April 29, had a fender boom drop on her pilothouse damaging her masthead light and radar antenna among other things. Traffic was held up for several hours. Historic Sites, Inc. of the U. S. Soo has proposed an initial program costing $120,000 to clean up the waterfront and, in general, make things look better around VALLE CAMP. Included in the long range plans are a Marine Museum on the dock and a "small harbor site for actual floating displays of old type lakes vessels such as lumber schoon- ers, fishing tugs, big bateaux, Macki- nac boats, commercial tugs and var- ious other types of vessels used in the development of the Great Lakes merchant trade." Sugar Island residents are up in arms over the ferry service at Little Rap- ids Cut. They seem to think that the ferry doesn't run late enough and that the rates should not be raised. The Detroit News has been very good with the Detroit and Soo Passages so far this year, but the promised Port Colborne passages have failed to appear. The American Bureau of Shipping says that the 960 x 104 x 46 barge now a o