New pilot boat navigates the mouth of the Mississippi

摘要

Bar Pilot is the new St. Johns-classpilot boat built by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, of Somerset, Mass., and delivered to Delta Launch Services LLC, of Venice, La., in July 2007.Jason Motts is a boat operator and apprenticepilot with the Associated Branch Pilots, which contracts the vessel from Delta Launch.Under a winter sky populated with white pelicans, back from summering in Alberta, Motts headed Bar Pilot into Head of Passes, the confluence of Southwest Pass, South Pass and Pass a Loutre, three prongs of water defining the mouth of the Mississippi River.