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

[Wray West]

Okay, so in a crossing situation, the boat under sail is stand on and 
the power driven boat is give way. How should I interpret that when I 
am under power and adjust course to pass behind the sailboat and then 
the sailboat changes course (tacks) and comes back at me.  They are 
not standing on at that point.  Isn't the sailboat supposed to 
maintain course and speed until clear of my new path?

  you wrote:
>When he did talk with me, he lead me to believe that  he thought 
>that he was the stand on (or "privileged") vessel no  matter what 
>because "he was sailing!!!"

Wray West
M/V Anjumal (Cape Horn 65)
Portsmouth, NH
www.anjumal.com