Narco vessel intercepted by sail ship - photo

[Ed Weldon]

I got to thinking about this and could visualize the drug runners might have decided to give the training ship a close buzz by coming up from behind at speed. So the skipper of the sailing ship, pretty well qualified at handling her, is sailing on a tack and the drug boat is heading toward the lee side on an almost parallel course. He orders a hard turn away from the wind and the drug runner, with a lot of forward momentum cannot avoid a collision, a harmless glancing blow to the sailling ship, but a disabling shock to the speed boat. By the time the drug boat crew recovers from the shock they see themselves facing guns and a well trained crew of what they thought was a harmless sailboat; but in fact was crewed by Equadorian sailers with years of experience dealing with Chinese fishing boats testing their territorial waters.