A private, landing-craft ferry built for service in Lynn Canal is being repurposed as a ferry that will operate out of Prince of Wales Island.
The Silver Eagle, currently being overhauled in Washington state, will be rechristened the Rainforest Islander.
Bruce Gilbert, who built the 65-foot, raised-cabin vessel and launched it here in 1995, sold it in December to the North End Ferry Authority.
The vessel will run between Coffman Cove and Wrangell and Petersburg.…