coast pilot

American  

noun

1. Also called pilot.  a manual published by a government for mariners, containing descriptions of coastal waters, harbor facilities, etc., for a specific area.

2. a pilot of coasting vessels.

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Example Sentences

According to the records of Sebastian Vizcaino and coast pilot of Cabrera Bueno, this is the one called Point Reyes.

From The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco by Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner

Edwards was coast pilot for the Government steamer “Vanderbilt.”

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

Going round the corner of the church, I came upon a coast pilot, peering through his glass for the smoke of a steamer, cable-freighted, that had been momentarily expected from Halifax for a week.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

She was visited by a Brazilian naval officer, who congratulated her captain not a little on his fortunate escape, the Brazilian men-of war never thinking of attempting the passage without a coast pilot.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael

We found the harbor very small, with rocks not shown in chart or coast pilot, and had barely room to come to without going ashore.

From Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department by Cilley, Jonathan Prince