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PAGE 12, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 18 1987 siEaIe FERRY MAY Company boat as beaWn 1~ ember, iÎ now large '4 draw curious~ or walking visit They don't seaworthy, the1 peeling, weeds decks next to.i debris and about in soI Three 0o one o f t4b will ebçrap PrincjÈ *Wtd JOHNSTON P moth boats have &arbor since Dec- ~pty in the wat$ ji 1 ly of Cartier-M eNamara ~1he P.E.I. and the Isle Royale re useid for dredging. The P.E.L. would act as a loading station, pumping material such as sand and gravel.through a pipeline into the Iýle Royale, which would iting provide will ever INSIDE the Prine Town wanl i of Whitby wants the ts removed from the fort â'> eritcafl produce. ýountries that Yearwood has be» in ontct with include India, Pe3u, uY'na, Antigua, Dominican Reptiblie and Haiti. It is Haiti that has the most need for the station, says Yearwood. Haiti, a country of 8,000 sq. miles and six million people needs the power the six generators can produce. In the past few years, rainfall in the country has been very sparse. So sparse that the level of water -in the country's reservoirs is reaching a dangerously 10w point at the hydro dams, according to year- wood. "A country like Haiti would cherish it like a gold mine," says Norm Smith. Smith, from Bob- eaygeon, is a minor shareholder in the company. "The P.E.I. could save a country a lot of foundation costs," explains "ieyesore». T~lAdftinistrator Bill Wallace sai d tliy>'are "con- trary" to the look the Town i promoting at its harbor. The two boats, the Prince Ed- ward Island and the Isle Royale,~ belong to a numbered company., One of those owners is Art Robinsn of Art's Auto Wreckers. Robinson did not expect to have any trouble when the boats were,ý moved to their present location in, December. But water had to 'bè. pumped out for a week when the' bow went down a little after taking' on water. When the company bought the two boats from Cartier-MeNamara company they were originally headed for Oshawa Harbor. "But there was no room there," p tons. sets volts of fffl