Associated Branch Pilots

For 170 years, the San Francisco Bar Pilots have been navigating the world’s largest ships through some of North America’s most difficult waterways. These state and federally-licensed master mariners are highly-specialized ship captains who rely on navigational experience, ship-handling skills, and local knowledge to transport more than $1.2 billion in goods to and from 200 Bay Area ports, docks, and berths every day. This critical service protects more than 1,000 miles of fragile coastline...

London Pilots (PLA) have issued an excellent quick reference guide for Pilot Transfer arrangements, which can be used for pilots as well as ship’s crews. Please take not of this document and if you can, try to incorporate it into your procedures.

This video deals with the training of apprentice pilots and the transmission of knowledge and know-how. The language in the video is French.

Pilot-Guard is a global pilot safety network that enables the real-time exchange of safety-related information between organisations around the globe on non-compliant pilot transfer arrangements (nc-pta) of vessels.

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Inbound Vessel Passing Jungkat Pilot Station. 

Found on YouTube. Created by "ships, planes and gaming". Originally pubished on 2021-03-03.

Approche d'un navire gros colis par mauvais temps en 2014. Pilotone Troenn de Lorient

by Rhys Davies, current Apprentice. Published already in Feb. 2020 by ABP.

Portland Harbour Authority in Dorset are set to benefit from a new pilot boat built by Goodchild Marine Services Limited.