M/V PILOT 62 (CHEOY LEE shipyards 17m Self-righting Pilot Boat)

The desire to improve efficiency and crew comfort has resulted in a new approach to hull design. Built from the ground up this new Pilot Boat design utilises an Extra Long Waterline (XLW) to maximise the waterline length.

How an aluminium boat is built.

Лоцманский катер, выход из Аделаиды, Австралия

Launching Pilot boat di Galangan Kapal Yasa Wahana Tirta Samudera, Semarang

Harbour pilots perform tricky operations boarding big cruise ships from fast pilot boats. Auckland and Malta.

Editor's note: The pilot boarding seems a bit improvised and unsafe to me, but that's certainly business as usual, isn't it?

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The IMPA has published on 30th June 2020 a letter about crew exchange in times of corona. Read the letter here:

In this episode of Mighty Jobs we meet the piloting crew of Buksér og Berging in Tromsø, Norway. Their Volvo Penta-powered piloting boat covers around 42,000 nautical miles every year. That’s the equivalent of traveling around the world twice. The Volvo Penta IPS system makes it possible to pilot ships under all weather conditions.