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v4 Dues and Log 20255 Wellesley Birmingham, MI 8010 Bill Luke, Editor The U. S. Coast Guard is having a permanent, ice-resistant navigation buoy erected in Lake Huron in the position of buoys 7 and 8 in Lake Huron Cut. The $500,000 channel marker is being built by Roen Salvage of Sturgeon Bay with assistance being provided by Malcolm Marine of St. Clair. The buoy tower is approximately 36 feet in diameter and will stand about 50 feet above the water surface. Foundation pilings were driven some 60 feet into the lake bottom and filled with stone to ensure adequate anchorage. *** ‘uring the week of June 17th, the Duluth-based U.S. Coast Guard cutter SUNDEW was moved to the Nicholson drydock at Ecorse for routine hull work, to be followed by the installation of new engines by a_ yet-to-be detemined contractor. SUNDEW was downbound at Port Huron behind MACKINAW on June 23rd. *** Canada's In late June, Dominion Marine PROVMAR TERMINAL & HAMILTON ENERGY at Hamilton July 7,.1985 Association stated that cargo tonnage in the Montreal-Lake Ontario section of the Seaway was down 15% from year earlier figures and further that 30% of DMA-registered vessels were laid up. The report went on to state that 45% of US-registered Lake Carriers Association lakers were inactive. *** Kingston-based marine museum has a new attraction in the form of the recently-retired upper lakes icebreaker ALEXANDER HENRY, presently moored in the flooded drydock there. The relatively young "Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston", as it is formally known, has been developed into a noteworthy center for Lakes' marine lore. *** Gaelic Tugboat Company of Wyandotte and Grosse Ile has recently disposed of its veteran tugboat DONEGAL, sold to Asher Marine Rentals of Sturgeon Bay. She will be named JOHN R. ASHER. *** Detroit's fireboat CURTIS RANDOLPH returned to service at her moorings adjoining the .W. Westcott Company property at the foot of 24th Street on June 12th. She has been in storage on Detroit's east side since the close of the 1983 navigation season. *** It has been confirmed that UL-International's self-unloader steamer JAMES NORRIS will be repowered with the diesel engine removed from Halco's tanker UNGAVA TRANSPORT at Port Colborne Editor's Photo -3-