14,4 m Pilot Boat, Nekton

Unless you were paying attention on your last cruise, you might have missed the pilot boat bringing the pilot out to your cruise ship.

These are various views of the pilot vessels coming and going from the pilot dock in Vlissingen prior to 2020.

Pilot boat launch in Youghal on July 2012.

Alabama’s Mobile Bar Pilots has awarded Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding of Somerset, Massachusetts, a contract for a new 53-foot (16-metre) pilot boat.

Maritime Pilot , Istanbul Strait , Turkish Straits , www.turkishpilots.org.tr

In this video we are trying to show how a ship enters into Mombasa port through a canal and the procedure of berthing.

The pilot station of the ports of Casablanca and Jorf-Lasfar operates in accordance with the 1937 Dahir on the reorganization of the pilot station of the port of Casablanca, which regulates all aspects of the organization and operation of the station, including the recruitment of pilots, as well as the pension and relief fund.
With the advent of Law 15/02 in 2005 on port reform, the station spontaneously adhered to it by creating a commercial company in application of article 13 of the said...