Puerto cabello Pilot Boat

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

After 25 years of continual and significant refinement, these Camarc pilot boats remain clear sector leaders. The hull shape is now quite different yet they retain their classic Camarc good looks.

As seen from the https://www.capewatertours.com/ Dolphin Cruise!!

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

The Associated Federal Pilots in Metairie, LA, has ordered a Chesapeake Class pilot boat from Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation. The pilots’ first launch, built by the Mass.-based shipyard, is scheduled for delivery in July 2021.

Shortly after 5 a.m. local time the vessel “Else” had a collision in the Kiel-Holtenau lock to the Kiel Canal.
The "Else" subject to pilotage passed the pilot's boarding position without taking a sea pilot on board and collided from the outside into the closed gate of the new north lock. The bow bored into the metal construction and the ship was stuck for about six hours.
For more information about this accident see related content below (articles).

As the world struggles with the Covid-19 virus, the maritime world is being hit hard, not only economically, but also socially and operationally. Iin shipping there are no borders.

Does the growth of ships ever have limits? Perhaps less in shipbuilding than in the handling of the ships during piloting.

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