Mick Heywood is the Engineering Manager at Estuary Services Ltd. Those boats you see with ‘pilot’ written on the hull belong to ESL. Mick works with a team of 3 fitters, to maintain the fast Pilot Launch Service out of Ramsgate. This is a taxi service to provide transport for pilots, to and from, large vessels entering the Port of London. Find out more about it and the connection to Henry VIII here