With recently imposed security measures mandating large ships wait further outside a harbor or waterway, pilot boats in some cases must travel twice as far before the pilot transfer can take place, ...

Arguably there are no two names more closely related to Pilot Boat design and construction in the United States than Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding and Ray Hunt Designs. Together the dynamic duo has ...

The Houston Pilots this week requested the Board of Pilot Commissioners approve an added fee to cover two new pilot boats. The group of 95 pilots boards and maneuvers every deep-draft ship that comes ...

The Houston and Bayou City pilot boats, each about 70 feet long, spent their lives rubbing elbows with behemoths. They encountered rough waters and increasingly large ships. And each day, they were ...

Two new ECO50 pilot boats – Haiama and Haiakwa – worth over US$5m and suitable to local conditions with improved operational capabilities and easy-to-use designs, were commissioned yesterday by the ...

A new pilot boat arrived in Bermuda after a 650 nautical mile journey from Newport, replacing the 42-year-old pilot boat St. George. A Government spokesperson said, “The Department of Marine and Ports ...

THANKS AND A tip of the bosun’s cap to Glenn A. Harper of Port Angeles, a Navy veteran of the Korean War, whose curiosity about some of the inner workings of the Puget Sound Pilots prompted him to ...

The brand-new pilot boat Drake is so tough that San Francisco port Director Monique Moyer had to take three swings to crack a bottle of sparkling wine across the boat's bow in a christening ceremony ...

Every day for 160 years and in all kinds of weather - the calm of autumn, the fog of summer, the storms of winter - stout pilot boats have cruised 11 miles at sea, ready to provide commercial ships ...