The Benefits of Pilot Boats Zach Stovall. It’s still dark at 5:30 a.m. when we board Manatee at Fort De Soto State Park on the outside edge of Florida’s Tampa Bay. As I track the 53-foot-6-inch pilot ...

Executive director of the port of San Francisco, Monique Moyer (right), christening the new pilot boat docked at Pier 9 in San Francisco, Ca., on Wednesday, February 17, 2010.

"The new Hunt-designed Chesapeake Class of 52-ft. pilot boats continues Gladding Hearn's tradition of refinements of our basic design," said John Duclos, vice president of the firm.

ABOARD THE PILOT BOAT MAYPORT - In the middle of this month's nor'easter, the mouth of the St. Johns River was a nasty, rainy mess, with 10-foot waves and easterly gusts of more than 30 knots. But ...

Pilot-Boats News: Gladding-Hearn Wins Shipbuilding Contract From Delta Launch Services, 10-Year-Old Pilot Boat Back To Gladding-Hearn For Repower, Refit, Tech. Wednesday, July 23, 2025.

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It’s the race to launch a thousand boats. Or at least, almost 200 of them from Balboa Pier. The 73rd annual Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race kicked off Friday morning.

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