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

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

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

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

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

"Do you know the coast, pilot?" observed the captain to Schriften, who stood by.

From The Phantom Ship by Marryat, Frederick

These are the sort of particulars which a good coast pilot has to keep in his memory, with the appearance of the numberless landmarks on the shore, and their distances one from the other.

From Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor by Webb, Archibald