Abegweit

Abegweit is the aboriginal name for Prince Edward Island,Canada's smallest province and the place where I grew up. For many years the principal ferry to and from the island was named Abegweit and when she went out of service she was acquired by the Columbia Yacht Club in Chicago to serve as their headquarters. She is moored there today and they have kept the original name. They have also done a wonderful job of preserving her principal rooms and compartments. I have not visited her but in coming years my wife and I want to sail to Chicago and I'll stand on her bows and recall her plowing through ice ( she was the largest passenger carrying icebreaker afloat in the 1950s)!

- David MacKinnon