Pilot boarding Fremantle/Australia

The P and O ship Adonia leaving Lisbon on 3-11-14. This was the Pilot's second attempt to leave the ship. A smaller cutter found the seas too rough to take off the Pilot so this larger cutter took over.

Since 2022, there is a solution in Germany that helps pilots to report defects in pilot ladders or pilot transfer arrangements quickly and easily. The apps are available for Android & iOS.

A valuable campaign managed by Chris Young, Kevin Vallance and others, which we found on Facebook .

February 23, 2020.
During high seas, smaller ships board Maritime Pilots in the mass entrance to Port of Rotterdam.

Great pictures from Estonia

Local Harbour Pilot boat in choppy sea at Ramsgate Kent England, filmed on 2.4.25

Unberthing NBCT ,Penang, Malaysia.
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Safehaven Marine have launched ‘South Esk’, an Interceptor 48 pilot built for the Montrose Port Authority in East Scotland.

The Halifax Pilot Boat recovering a Pilot from a cruise ship in some rough weather
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In this article Marine Pilot André Gaillard gives us his vision of the maritime pilotage profession of yesterday, today and tomorrow.