Pilot boat Le Fret

Baird maritime awards: Southerly Designs & Dongara Marine

BREAUX'S BAY CRAFT 90' PILOT VESSEL

A beautiful day, climbing up the (not-so-well-rigged) pilot ladder and then the stairs of the accommodation towards the bridge.

They are very proud at Next Generation Shipyards in Lauwersoog; the brand-new tender for the Dutch Pilotage is ready in the harbor. Costs: 3.5 million euros.

Here we board the container ship President Kennedy, inbound for the San Francisco Bay.
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Video by Maksym Kunchev. Thank you!

PILOTTENDER GRODEN (MMSI: 211545300). Build by Abeking & Rasmussen, Germany

For nearly 150 years, the Bar Pilots have protected our environment by safely guiding ocean-going vessels through our waterways.

How to get information for wind & current limits to be potentially encountered by thrusters – or current? - this will be described in this movie:
- Measure Drift speed, due to beam wind with no propulsion;
- Measure drift speed using full thrusters
- Estimate wind & current limits to be potentially encountered by thrusters – or current...
- Finally there is a simple formula as Rule of Thumb: the transverse drift speed is about 7-8% of wind speed!