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Pilot Boat working close to shore, but not the best of weather.

Pilot Boat Mouth of River Boyne - Escorting ship towards the port - Friday 25th February 2022

South Australian port operator Flinders Ports (FP) has entered into an agreement to purchase three new pilot vessels over the next three years from Melbourne-based boatbuilder Hart Marine.

THE PILOT BOAT is coming back in.
ENJOY.

Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation delivered a new Chesapeake class pilot boat to the Associated Federal Pilots in Venice, Louisiana.

UKMPA press release on the death of Captain Pilot Francesco Galia. A tribute.

A more unique angle regarding freighter departures; I was able to film the routine disembarking of one of our local ship captains and officers after piloting Solina out of the harbor. This is a required procedure, as per US Maritime Laws, all international freighters must be piloted in and out of a US harbor by a US Captain. Here we have out local pilot vessel Sea Bear running up alongside the Solina to allow the two officers to depart the freighter before she heads out across Lake Superior

APL Belgium in rough water near the Farallon Islands pilot station.

Ship receiving pilot at the pilot station and proceeding to jetty.

Fosen Yard AS has built a semi-closed fish farm construction with a diameter of 160m and a depth of 20m.
The second half ring of this construction has left Emden on Friday.