Video Pilot Boat "Petrel" (River Mersey)
published on 16 December 2021
Video Kittiwake Mersey Pilot
published on 22 December 2021
Video Pilot Boat Turnstone Leaving And Returning to Heysham
published on 27 July 2023
Video MS Westcott servicing the Algoma Harvester - Detroit River
published on 30 September 2022
Taken from aboard the MS Westcott Pilot Boat this is the Algoma Harvester receiving mail on the Detroit River as they head downbound in the early evening hours of September 2nd, 2022
I had just been in Cleveland OH for the christening of the Mark W Barker the newest ship for the Interlake Steamship Company and left there on the 2nd to go to Toledo and see the National Museum of the Great Lakes and then I continued on to Detroit where I made this stop at the JW Westcott Company and met up...
Video Safety with HamiltonJet (Waterjet)
published on 1 July 2020
Waterjets are the safest choice for Pilot Boat applications. Our waterjets are engineered with safety in mind, precise steering control and efficient manoeuvrability result in effective and quick reaction to a man-overboard situation, and with no exposed propeller, waterjets provide ultimate safety around people in the water.
Article Ninth Pilot 1820 - twelfth pilot boat for the demanding Norwegian market
published on 5 September 2022
Kewatec builds the twelfth pilot boat and the ninth Pilot 1820 boat for Buksér og Berging in Norway. The boat is of the same series as the previous Pilot 1820 boats that have been delivered during the last five years. The boats have a total length of 18.2 meters and are the flagships of Kewatec's pilot boat range.
Video Safehaven Marine: Rough weather sea trials of Svitzer Oued Martil.
published on 17 March 2021
Video Pilots Training in Brazil
published on 24 June 2022
Operators and supervisors of the operations center (atalaia) of Praticagem da Barra do Rio Grande participated in an update course in online and face-to-face mode. They had classes on nautical charts, electronic charts (ECDIS), radars, portable pilot units (portable electronic navigation equipment) and technical English. "There is no good operation without recurrent training with good tools", says pilotage operational director, practical Bernardo Ramos