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 ...

The Virginia Pilot Boat Corporation has ordered a Chesapeake Class MKII launch from Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding. The MKII, a new generation of the shipyard’s popular, smaller class of pilot boats, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two new ECO50 pilot boats – Haiama and Haiakwa – worth over US$5m and suitable to local conditions with improved operational capabilities and easy-to-use designs, were commissioned yesterday by the ...

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 ...

It’s chilly and hard to see at 4 a.m. as Martin Maher throttles up his turbocharged work boat against the swells. He is set to rendezvous with a Chinese container ship three miles beyond the Port of ...