I have a question concerning how the ships pilot on the Phantom got transfered to the ship he was to pilot into port if the Phantom didn't have any boats on board to transfer him with? According to most of what I have read, most pilot boats, like the Mary Taylor for instance, carried at least one ship boat to make the transfer. The Mary Taylor was close to the same size as the Phantom and built around the same era. Did they transfer the pilot directly from the deck of the Phantom to the other ship? I was under the impression that pulling two larger ships close together, especially in rough weather, was a bit dangerous. Did they have some other way to get the pilot on the other ship that I am not aware of like some type of transfer rigging similar to what they used by the Navy during WWII? Maybe the ship he was to pilot sent out a boat of their own to pick him up,