Second Lives 34

A year ago I posted some photos of Charles Burton in the last days before being painted anew.  She still had the Vane Brothers livery although the blue V on the stack had been removed.

This past weekend I caught the same boat, now called Helen, in the distance but from roughly the same angle.   This Helen might be a replacement for Helen Laraway, another CMT tugboat that Ive not seen in a while. 

She had CMT Y Not 5 on a wire and was heading for Salem NJ, where she currently finds herself.  

I’d wager that means she’s loading a half dozen thousand tons of sand.

Helen is a slightly larger boat than Daisy Mae, another CMT boat that has made that sand run as described here. 

All photos on a foggy Monday, WVD.