The Waterlront: The New 'Stretch' Scotia Prince. By David Clough.

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This illustration shoWI the GO-foot frame wrrently being added to the Scotia Prince in Germany. The luxury feny will resume her regular schedule out of the Portland International T enninal in April.

8 illion And 60 Feet

The New "Stretchll Scotia Prince

Te most exciting news from the Nova Scotia tourism scene comes from Portland, Maine, where Prince of Fundy Cruises has announced an $8 million project to "lengthen" MIS Scotia Prince, the cruise-car ferry plying the Gulf of Maine between Portland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

It's official. The Scotia Prince has high-tailed it to a shipyard in Flensburg, West Germany, where she is being completely re-fitted and inserted with a new 60- foot center section, making her a super-stretch deluxe ferry over 475 feet long and providing 30-percent more accommodations. "The Scotia Prince will actually be cut in two," says Henk Pols, president of the line, "and a new center section, already under construction, will be inserted, and she'll be welded and bolted back together again." While in the shipyard the Scotia Prince will get an extensive refit, which willsee a new and expanded lounge and casino; a multipurpose 90-seat conference center; a new bar and nightspot as well as a small, intimate library lounge.

The piece de resistance will be 90 new staterooms, all with private facilities, bringing the total to 316 cabins, 80 percent of which will be cabins with facilities. This'provides for an increase of 335 beds for a total of 1,058 beds.

Among the new cabins will be some honeymoon suites as well as some cabins for handicapped people.

Plans call for an extensive remodelling of the aft lounge and a European style Bistro Bar to be added.

Although some of the existing cardeck space is to be used for the new cabins, the Prince will not forfeit any car space as more space will be gained in the lengthening of the vessel.

The new, super-stretch MIS Scotia Prince will re-introduce herself to Portland when she recommences regularly scheduled service this Ap~il.

About 160,000 passengers a year travel to and from Nova Scotia on this route. The Scotia Prince provides the shortest and fastest sea-link to Nova Scotia from the United States, saving over 875 miles of driving each way.