Arguably there are no two names more closely related to Pilot Boat design and construction in the United States than Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding and Ray Hunt Designs. Together the dynamic duo has ...

With recently imposed security measures mandating large ships wait further outside a harbor or waterway, pilot boats in some cases must travel twice as far before the pilot transfer can take place, ...

Two new vessels are plying the waters of the Twin Ports, providing a critical service in a business that links the Northland to ports all around the world. The "Sea Eagle" and the "Sea Bear," a pair ...

A 12 percent increase in the rates Great Lakes pilots can charge foreign flag vessels means an additional three pilots for the Lakes Pilots Association in Port Huron. The U.S. Coast Guard-approved ...

The Houston Pilots this week requested the Board of Pilot Commissioners approve an added fee to cover two new pilot boats. The group of 95 pilots boards and maneuvers every deep-draft ship that comes ...

A new pilot boat arrived in Bermuda after a 650 nautical mile journey from Newport, replacing the 42-year-old pilot boat St. George. A Government spokesperson said, “The Department of Marine and Ports ...

The Houston and Bayou City pilot boats, each about 70 feet long, spent their lives rubbing elbows with behemoths. They encountered rough waters and increasingly large ships. And each day, they were ...

Every day for 160 years and in all kinds of weather - the calm of autumn, the fog of summer, the storms of winter - stout pilot boats have cruised 11 miles at sea, ready to provide commercial ships ...