[jrd22]

nolatom- In hindsight, only two scenarios make any sense to me. As you stated he wanted to keep me off his port bow so that we would pass port to port, or he mistook me for a slow moving northbound target that he wanted to overtake on his port side. The strange thing is that after I changed course and we were again running parallel courses he would change course and aim directly at me with no sign that he was trying to leave adequate room between us to pass safely. It's a mystery, but if you ever see a green hulled sailboat making crazy radical turns for no apparent reason you'll know there must be a green and white tug in the vicinity :-)). I'm sure that this reaction will wear off in a couple of years or so. JD