Swash@A&R "Explorer"

At the A&R shipyard in Germany, the successful principle of SWATH boats was further developed in 2013: The SWASH principle allows sea-going, smaller and more economical boats.

SWATH and SWASH are interesting technologies that allow a vessel to sail much more calmly in high waves. A stable and calm position of the ship is especially important for pilot boarding.

Hvide Sande Redningsbåd på Nordsøen for at sætte Lods ombord på en Coaster

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Setubal pilot boat "Bolina" underway to refuelling point in harbour.

Shown here is some footage of a pilot boat that was recently expertly delivered by our driver Declan to A Coruna from Cork. This load was 4.85m high, 24m long and 4.2m wide overall. It takes a great team coordinating from our office to organise the shipping, escorts and permits here in Ireland and Spain in order to make Declan's job a bit easier. It then takes the drivers expert hand to ensure that the load arrives safely and you can be sure in using Whitten Road Haulage that our years of...

A video of a fellow captain at my work giving me my very first ride in the companies jet pilot boat. Im impressed.

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