If you are unsure that you will need a pilot, you are encouraged to make tentative arrangements for a pilot, and confirm your request later, so that overall needs for pilots may be anticipated. However, tentative requests will not be accepted for either inbound or outbound vessels at Port Angeles. Also, it is the policy of the Puget Sound Pilots to not dispatch a pilot to a tentative assignment.

A tentative request for a pilot must be confirmed by the requestor prior to the time of pilot dispatch or the dispatch will not be made. All assignments held as tentative and not made firm between the hours of 0800 and 1700, and prior to normal dispatch times as indicated above, will not have a pilot dispatched to them.