"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
Harbor control? What's that?

Any commercial traffic approaching, departing or traversing the traffic
lanes to Halifax Harbour and approaches are required to contact 'Halifax
Radio'.. the Port Authority. Private Vessels should notify Halifax Radio ...
but it is not a requirement.


I think there is such a thing in New York and maybe in a few other ports
on the East Coast, but it is certainly the exception, not the rule.
Actually, it may be more common now after 9/11. Perhaps one of the "pros"
can address this issue.

This has been the case here long before 9/11....

Since the harbor entrance in still under Inland rules, I might guess this
happened in the Chesapeake.

Not Inland Rules in Halifax.... routing is under direction of the Port
Authority.

I have heard Halifax Radio warning a small private vessel that it was on
course for foul ground and directed it to alter course. The vessel replied
and obeyed prior to thanking Halifax Radio for the notice. They track
everyone in the harbour... 24/7.

They tagged me 30+ years ago at 0230hrs racing the Pilot vessel back into
the harbour.... I had no running lights, no radar, no sounder, no radio, no
lights at all... it was a stick steer 42 foot Northumberland Strait Lobster
Fishing boat, no cabin.... I was trying to sneak in under the Pilot Boat
shadow. I was only 17... we had already taken the vessel from Prince Edward
Island to Halifax with 3 charts, a dip tube log and a time piece. We cooked
food we caught on a Habachi on deck and slept in hammocks strung athwartship
under a canvas tarp. Those were the days....

CM