T&T: rules of navigation..sail vs power

[Richard Cook]

You bet - overtaking vessel is the give-way boat, even if it's a 
sailboat under only sail.

Richard Cook
New Moon (Bounty 257)

badornato wrote:
  > My choice was to bear off again and give him space or.......what i did
> was get out of the pilothouse and yell "if you round up you are going
> to hit me".
> and he bore off away and gave me space.
> 
> My question is:  does an overtaking sailboat have to give way to a powerboat?
> 
> if he had been racing i would have moved out of his way.  i thought he
>  was inexperienced, overcanvassed and oblivious to the consequences of
> rounding up his pointy bow into my beautiful new awlgrip.