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.

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Discovery Coast has been around for over a decade now.  One of my first times to see her was here. 

Lightning has only recently been joined by Thunder, here.  Might tugs named for other weather phenomena like hail and fog be coming?

Helen was only renamed that earlier this year;  before that, she was  Charles Burton. 

Thomas D. Witte appeared here only once as Kendall P. Brake, and that was a decade and a half ago with Powhatan, class-establisher for Apache. 

Defender last appeared on this blog a year and a half ago here . . .  She was

formerly Davis Sea, my favorite photo of which was here, struggling with solid water upriver.

Pearl Coast is a regular at the cement dock on the KVK, here with Cement Transporter 1802,  one of a fleet of barges dedicated to exactly that. 

And while I was at this location, I caught a convergence of tugboats,  Pegasus eastbound and Stephen Reinauer westbound.   Stephen has been in the sixth boro for nearly 30 years now.

All photos, WVD.

Other Peoples Photos 104

Divemasters MV Atlantic Surveyor came into Tony A’s lens the other day. 

Click here for some of the diverse projects this boat has been involved with. 

Kapitein Rob caught a few tugboats in the foggy west end of Long Island Sound last week:  Mister T and

Navigator.

Tony A caught this view of Pacific Reliance and this one of

Helen.

Phil little sent this along, a “dramatic shot of the Douglas J in front of the ‘Sail on the Hudson.'”

And finally, how about a formerly saltwater boat now on the inland seas, Caroline McKee, sent along by Great Lakes Mariner. 

Thanks to Tony, Rob, Phil, and GLM for sending along these photos.  Below is a photo I believe I’ve never posted . . . I took it from the Mississippi River in November 2016; Coastal 303 was later to become Southern Dawn and then Caroline McKee, depicted above.  Does anyone know the story of the snapped mast?

Here‘s a freshwater-to-saltwater Coastal 202.

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Quick, name that boat.

It’s appeared on this blog before. 

She appeared here before as Charles Burton, but now . . .  meet Helen!

Cape Hatteras (1967) and Eugenie Moran (1966) have recently appeared over by Prall’s Island, regular spot for tugboats being prepared for reefing.   I caught Eugenie in Portsmouth NH over a decade ago here. 

Now over to the coast 3000 miles away, it’s C-tractor 22.  Thanks to JED, I rode out to sea with a previous generation C-tractor here over a decade ago. 

Many thanks to Tony A for all but the last photo, which was sent along by George Schneider.  Thanks to you both. 

And I’ll keep the lights on in tugster tower to keep juicing up the robots.