[GOPAPA]

Out on the Columbia River where lots of ships come and go a Bar Pilot brings the ship or barge in from the ocean and then he turns the ship over to a river Pilot ..Same thing back out,,, I have friend who retired a river pilot and he told me at one of my class reunions that he had to go by way of the bouy's to bring the vessel up and down the river.as a guide . ( by the way them pilots make a lot of money piloting ,let me tell ya )