Pilots' Pocket Gui./ Checklist

Pilots' Pocket Guide and Checklist This pocket aide-memoire is designed to promote and improve safety in harbour towage. Based on industry best practice, it presents checklists coupled with guidance covering pilot/master exchange of information, harbour towage best practice, tug types, use of messenger lines and heaving lines, towing points, girting, release of towline, hydrodynamic interaction, escort towage, changing between direct and indirect towing, and pilot and tug master meetings.