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“Debut of Paterson's ONTADOC Father Ray Donahue had his camera focussed and his finger on the trigger when Paterson's new boat slid down the ways at the Colling- wood Shipyard shortly before 10 a.m. on Jan. 10, 1975. He caught the dramatic moment when she first hit the water, throwing up a spray. Her dimensions were undetermined as we went to press but, as Father Pete suggests in the LOG, she reportedly will be named ONTADOC as the people in Ontario had hoped, counting heavily on the fact that Paterson's headquarters is in Thunder Bay, Ontario. ooooo0 U.S.Steel reports that on March 15 Great Lakes shipping made history by completing the first l2-month navigation season -- and the boats kept right on sailing. Technological advances were given part of the credit including improved methods of clearing the Soo locks gates of ice, bubbler systems at docks and in strategic reaches of the St. Marys River and stalwart efforts by Coast Guard icebreakers. But the principal credit was given by the corporation to the unusually mild temperatures this winter without which the other efforts would not have been able to keep the boats sailing around the calendar.