Pilot boat

A pilot boat or pilot boat is a boat, the sea or inland waterway over increases and the transport of the pilot of a case of pilotage routes on rivers or at port controls.

A pilot boat takes over the departure of a ship from a port after reaching the open waters to transport the pilots back to the harbor or to the pilot station on the coast. Likewise, it brings pilots to incoming ship.

Versetzboote the names of the boats because pilotage are brought from one ship to another when the roster of pilots, it provides so. The pilots are thus offset from a leaking ship on an incoming.

All pilot boats, enabling the sea pilots are marked with standard international inscription PILOT. Harbor pilot boats are marked in Germany with a pilot.

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At greater distances from the coast, for example, at the mouth of the Elbe into the North Sea, there are floating pilot stations. These are today living SWATH ships on which live the pilot for a certain period of time and life. If a pilot is required on an incoming ship, brings him a pilot boat from the station ship for this cruise. The sea pilot this ship then leads to the next pilot station before Brunsbuttel. There the Elblotse it replaces, then the lower Elbe up until the pilot station Seemannshöft at the entrance of Hamburg's port, the ship takes. There he is again replaced by the port pilots Port of Hamburg.