Video Pilot Boat Victoria BC (Canada)
published on 1 May 2022
Article Safehaven Marine signs contract with P&O Maritime for new pilot boat
published on 20 October 2022
Video New pilot boats christened at Port of Gdańsk
published on 26 October 2022
Article WARDAN – New pilot boat delivered to western australia port operator
by Baird Maritime - published on 18 December 2023
Video Good old times: PLA Thames Pilots at Work
published on 18 May 2020
Opinion New guidance for PBAs with trapdoors. Released 4.11.2020 by NZMPA
by New Zealand Maritime Pilot's Association - published on 6 November 2020
New guidance for PBAs with trapdoors. Released 4.11.2020 at NZMPA Conference in Dunedin, NZ. Distinct difference to suggestions in many other countries, is that we challenge operators who have the ladder suspended from the accommodation ladder (gangway) and not secured to the ship. SOLAS states that pilot ladder shall be secured to the ship, and securing strongpoints, shackles and ropes shall be as strong as the sideropes.
Video Harbor Pilots - They park big ships. This is how.
published on 30 September 2022
Opinion A Corrected Version on Positioning of Pivot Point
by Capt. Santosha K. Nayak - published on 18 November 2020
Understanding the fundamentals of the pivot point is highly required for understanding the alteration of the courses. Pivot point is an imaginary point on the vessel which turns on a circular path on the perimeter of vessel’s turning circle when the vessel makes a turn. The knowledge about the position of the pivot point in a manoeuvring situation provides the ship handler with the information on the geometry of motion of the ship.