Tugboat Hallet

The Hallet is a 60 foot, 57 ton boat and was known as the largest, most powerful logging boat on Rainy Lake. The Hallet was used extensively in hauling logs. During an average year, the Tugboat made twenty round trips one hundred miles each, hauling 70,000 to 90,000 cords of wood a year, until 1974. The Hallet was then transported in portions by railway flatcar and reconstructed for the Pulp and Paper Mill in Fort Frances in 1983. Restoration was later completed by the Fort Frances Museum and Tugboat Hallet can now be viewed beside the Sorting Gap Marina on Front Street.