pilotage

This requirement means at least one person on board has been certified by the Coast Guard in boat pilotage, and is the expert on navigation and traversing dangerous waters.

Under his pilotage they anchored on the first of November close to the Isthmus of Darien.

Without the pilotage of principle, they know not what course to take, and are every moment in danger of a fatal wreck.

In such a time Burke endeavoured to show by what pilotage he would have men weather the storm.

It's absolutely made for shallow war-boats under skilled pilotage.

It was nervous work for a ship-master to carry his vessel on a coast, under such pilotage as this.