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[edit] Bay Ferries Great Lakes

Just read your message re. the Spirit of Ontario I and related articles. I was expecting NFL to establish some type of subsidiary in both NY and Ontario to operate this new service for Rochester, however there was no mention of a name until the following Toronto Star article on April 29, which dropped the name "Bay Ferries Great Lakes". I had been expecting something like Great Lakes Ferries Ltd. or Lake Ferry Ltd. etc., so the name wasn't entirely surprising.

The info for the Bay Ferries Great Lakes Limited entry is pretty sparse, but one thing I'm not 100% certain of is whether this subsidiary ends with "limited" or "incorporated", however I assumed "limited", given how all other NFL subsidiaries have been named (ie. Northumberland Ferries Ltd., Bay Ferries Ltd., NFL Holdings Ltd., etc.).

Aside from its mention in the article, I have yet to successfully find this subsidiary's name on the corporate registry of New York. Unfortunately Ontario requires payment of a fee to search their corporate registry. It could be merely the formal name for a numbered company - I have no idea really. I've also read where provincial and state corporate registries sometimes aren't always up to date, or are updated on a monthly, bimonthly or quarterly basis, so it could pop up sometime in the coming months...

I suppose we could always personally contact the reporter who wrote the article, although I might be able to work on some local contacts here in eastern Canada at NFL for more info. At any rate, I'm sure the official info will be available soon enough once the service starts operating and we see the actual corporate names in the legalese fine print on the reverse side of vessel boarding passes. Plasma east 01:36, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Toronto Star
News, Friday, April 29, 2005, p. F05

'Cat' ferry set to begin anew
John Spears

(snip)

Rochester Fast Ferry Co. [sic - Rochester Ferry Company LLC] - a corporation owned by the City of Rochester - bought the Australian-built ship in February and has been working on re-launch plans ever since.

As operator it has hired Bay Ferries Great Lakes, a unit of Northumberland Ferries Ltd., which runs ferries from Nova Scotia to Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Maine. Its [sic - subsidiary Bay Ferries'] ferry between Bar Harbor, Me., and Yarmouth, N.S., is also called The Cat.

(snip)

I just received a high-res image of the new Bay Ferries Great Lakes corporate colours for Spirit of Ontario I from a friend and noticed that there is now a lower-res version of the image shown on NFL-BAY's website: http://www.nfl-bay.com/english/fast/index.html

You can make out the Bay Ferries Great Lakes corporate logo near the starboard quarter if you look closely. "The Cat" service markings are similar to the Yarmouth-Bar Harbor vessel, with the addition of the "Rochester-Toronto" text underneath. The oblique aerial photo is obviously for a promotional run-by off the dry dock at Port Weller. Bay has been known to do this occasionally with its Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Incat 048 and now Incat 059 vessels, usually off the Forchu lighstation at Yarmouth, or near the entrance to Bar Harbor, with the images being incorporated into marketing materials. I'm not sure if the high-res image can be used here on Wik as it is likely NFL's property, but I'll check into the licensing issues. Plasma east 14:54, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Cool! Nice photo - hope to be able to try the service later this summer when I head to Ontario via upstate NY.Plasma east 01:25, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)