Another cruise picture — this time of a boat coming out to our ship, to take the Puget Sound harbor pilot home:
Harbor pilots (a.k.a., maritime pilots) are specialists used to help get large ships in and out of dangerous or busy ports — not steering the ship, but essentially acting as a senior adviser to the ship’s captain. Since our cruise started in Seattle, the first harbor pilot was onboard when we left — and this pilot boat came out to retrieve him or her once we were out of the busy Puget Sound.
This image is also up on Flickr, and in the gallery as well (should you like it enough that you’d like to buy a copy…).
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