The St. Laurent Forest Products Corporation of West Point, Va. has been operating a pair of 84 ft. tugs, Elis and Sture, since 1980, when they were built in Houma, La. The boats are dedicated to supplying the companies pulp mill with chips as well as towing the company's oil barge as required. When the original two-cycle main engines started showing their twenty years, Marine Superintendent Tommy Callis began shopping for replacement engines for Elis. He liked what he heard from engine dealer Sonny Hawkins of Inland Equipment about Cummins Marine and he had already had good dealings with distributor Cummins Atlantic on construction machinery.