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= Gator class (flat-bottom). In the Coast Guard The LOG (continued) Challenge, —_ the U.S. Coast Guard's BUCKTHORN outdistanced the Canadian Coast Guard's CARIBOU ISLE. The race concludes a week-long series of special events whose proceeds are used to assist handicapped children. *** After 25 years of lying idle in Muskegon, AQUARAMA departed her dockside home on Muskegon Lake on July 6 under tow of Sandrin Brother's TUSKER and GLENADA. The pilot aboard AQUARAMA_ was our member, Captain Morgan Howell, who was her Captain when she last operated as a passenger ship. The tow arrived at Sarnia on July 10, with plans to move AQUARAMA to the Government Dock later this year and then to Port Stanley after the harbor has been dredged and prepared for her arrival, sometime next ear. *** In other news from Sarnia, the CSL/CNR freight shed under the Blue Water bridge is being torn down. *** Western Engineering Services Ltd. of Thunder Bay, a subsidiary of N.M. Paterson and Sons Ltd., has sold it's tugs PENINSULA and DONALD MAC to Gravel and Lakes Services Ltd. Traditionally, Western Engineering handled lakers while gravel and Lakes Services panes the salties at Thunder Bay. completion of a $200,000 engineering ce has resulted in three recommendations presented to the Canadian Parks Services regarding the future of the damaged lock at the Canadian Sault. The options listed include (1) repairing the existing 900-foot lock, at a cost of $6 million. Repairs to the shipping canal would involve re-enforcing the face of the lock wall with steel griders and anchoring them back’into the ground with steel cables. Repairs would extend the useful life of the canal for freighter traffic 10 years, (2) $6 million rebuilding program which would reduce the size of the canal and exclude freighter traffic. However, the canal, with an indefinite life expectancy, would be open to tour and recreational traffic, and (3) mothballing the lock, leaving only the hertiage park and visitors center operational. Officials appear to favor plan (2), however, the Canadian Park Service will hold informal hearings at the Canadian Sault before making a final decision as the fate of the lock. AQUARAMA with tugs TUSKER, GLENADA and ARIZONA at Point Edward - July 10, 1988 J.T. Philbin photo Steel cargo freighter (U.S. 248329) built in 1945 at Chester, Pennsylvania by the Sun Shipping & Dry Dock Co. (Hull # 357); 495 x 71.7 x 20.9; 10780 gross tons as 4) MARINE STAR. Rebuilt and converted to a passenger vessel in 1954/55 and renamed b.) AQUARAMA; 12773 gross tons. Laid up at Muskegon until 1988 and towed to Sarnia. 265 a a S