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14. THE O V E R L A N D V O Y A G E S OF THE GU Y M. NO. 1 In recent issues, we have m e n t i o n e d the move from Lo ng Lake to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, of the forme r Abitibi and K i m b e r l y - C l a r k ra fting tug GUY M. NO. 1, (a) ORIENT BAY (75), which was p u r c h a s e d dur i n g the summer of 1990 by J. W. Purvis Marine Ltd., of the C a n a d i a n Soo. N e e d l e s s to say, there was more to this story than we co uld tell in a short "Marine News" item, and we thought our reade rs w o u l d like to kn ow the w hole story. We ext end our most since re thanks to those me mbers who took the time to send to us various c l i ppings and re ports c o n c e r n i n g this most un usual event. W i t h o u t that assis ta nc e, we could not pr esent this additional account of the tug's wande ri ng s. The 1990 o v e r l a n d trip out of Long Lake was not the first such e x c u r s i o n for this tug. Back in 1975, ORI EN T BAY was ha u l e d out of Lake Nipigon (where she and her si st er-tug, NIPIGON, had run logs for the Abit i b i Power & Paper C o m p a n y L t d . ) and was taken o v e r l a n d to Long Lake, whe re K i m b e r l y C lar k of Ca n a d a L i m i t e d u sed her to haul log booms from Long la c to Chorus Bay. It was after this mov e that the 1 938-built tug was not onl y re named but also was r e - e n g i n e d w i t h m uch more po werful mach in er y. D uring the summer of 1990, GUY M. NO. 1 was taken on a final trip down Long Lake to Chorus Bay, u nder the co mmand of her most recen t master, but she m a n a g e d to run agro u n d whilst m o v i n g aside a log boo m so that she could pass. She soon was freed, however, a p p a r e n t l y w i t h o u t damage. Once she rea ched Cho rus Bay, her p i l o t h o u s e and the small c abin behind it wer e cut away, and her mast and stack were taken down, all w i t h the aid of a crane brought in from the Soo. GU Y M. NO. 1 then was ha u l e d from the water, being p ulled by a b u l l d o z e r side wa ys up the b each over skids made from e i g h t y 50foot po plar logs. A series of 100-ton jacks then rai se d the tug so that she could be hauled away by a 175 -foot-long, h e a v y - l o a d trailer. There f o l l o w e d a 6 0 - k i l o m e t r e trip over b ush roads, some of w h i c h had to be i m p r o v e d for the occasion. One t h r e e - q u a r t e r kil o m e t r e sec ti on of road had to be c o n s t r u c t e d sp e c i a l l y for the "tow", and a tem p o r a r y rail c r o s s i n g also had to be installed. Once she had made it safely out of the bush, GUY M. NO. 1 had to be hau le d 19 k i l o m e t r e s down H i g h w a y 17 from Terr a c e Bay to Jackfish. Suf fi ce it to say that this cause d a c e r t a i n amount of c o n s t e r n a t i o n to m o t o r i s t s caught up in the traffic snarl w h i c h resulted. An assor t m e n t of po lice officer s and u t i l i t y work e r s made wa y throu gh the traffic for the convoy and also cleared away power lines and other ob st ru ctions. In fact, the tug was fo l lowed clos e l y al ong the h i g h w a y by a house being tr a n s p o r t e d in an un r e l a t e d move, but who se owner took a d vantage of the tug's movement. Once at Jackfis h, GUY M. NO. 1 was p l a c e d into Lake Su perior by means of a l a u nching ramp c o n s t r u c t e d of 200 t r uckloads of gravel. The trip down H i g h w a y 17 had bee n mad e on Se pt ember 5th, and by the 10th of the same month, the tug was at the C a n a d i a n Soo. There, her cabins, stack and mast were put back in place, and the tug was put into o p e r a t i n g c o n d i t i o n so that she might serve the Purvis fleet as (c) SCOTT PURVIS. We ear lier had repor t e d that the tug w ould serve at Thun d e r Bay, a long with another sister-tug, W. J. IVAN PURVIS, but as a res ul t of the amoun t of power w h i c h the SCOTT PURVIS boasts, it has been deci d e d that she will remain at the Soo. By the way, our reade rs mig ht be i n t e r e s t e d to know that the move of the tug cost about $ 1 0 0 , 000 and the t r a c t o r - t r a i l e r w hich m o v e d the tug alo ng the h igh w a y had a total of one h u n d r e d wheels. The fact that such a move was considered for a 52-year-old tug speaks highly of the de s i g n and c o n s t r u c t i o n (by Mar in e I n dustries L t d . ) of this p a r t i c u l a r class of t u g . ) * * * * *