Maritime piloting

The maritime piloting is an assistance given to the commander of a Navire to advise it on the operations to carry out in difficult passages like the tightened water, the channels and harbor-basins, or to sail on a difficult sea route (for example the Fleuve the St. Lawrence).

The presence of the pilot aboard ships is obligatory (according to certain criteria: length, Tonnage… the State remaining Master of the decision. Examples: Le Havre: length > 70 m or transporting ship of the dangerous goods, Nantes-Saint-Nazaire: length > 75 m or clear Gauge > 150 transporting dangerous goods) in the majority of large the ports of trade and in the estuaries or channels in order to prevent the strandings and the boardings.

In France

This provision, which one finds the first traces in France with Oléron about the year 1100, became obligatory and regulated in all the wearing of France in 1815.

When a ship approaches it must claim a pilot at the local station or to wet in a waiting area if none is available. It then hoists conventional signals in its mast (house ''' G ''').

When a ship attends in a regular way the same port, the commanders can obtain a license " captain pilote" subject to have carried out a certain number of movements with a pilot on board and to return at sufficient intervals. The number of movements necessary and the periodicity are variable according to the ports. In this case the ship is not exempted to remunerate the station of piloting but pay a reduced royalty.

In the large ports (like Le Havre, which was precursory here about thirty years), the maritime pilots héli-are winched on the large ships (Pétrolier S and Porte-conteneurs).

One distinguishes:

the deep-sea piloting, which is a free activity.
the harbor piloting, which is in general regulated by the Port state.

to see too

maritime Pilot (expert)

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