Vacationland Ferry

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Vacationland Ferry was built in 1952 by Great Lakes Engineering Works (located in River Rouge, Michigan) and sold to the State of Michigan's Department of Highways for $4,745,000. She first operated across the Straits of Mackinac (between Mackinaw City, Michigan and St. Ignace, Michigan), one of four ferries. When the Mackinac Bridge was finally finished in 1957, the Vacationland was inactive for 3 years.

She has had other names over the years, the Jack Dalton, the Pere Nouvel, the Sunshine Coast Queen and then the Gulf Kanayak.