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I'm missing something maybe.
You were on a port tack as was the B25, the B25 tacked and crossed your course so you were to windward of him - you couldn't fall off and go behind him because of what? Too much weather helm? Then you were indeed over canvassed and on a port tack, burdened by his starboard. Two strikes. The third is not watching and reacting to the other boats around you, two seconds timely falling off would have sped you up and put you behind hiim, or better yet on his tack you could have done an immediate tack and put him in you wind shadow.
I agree the B25 skipper was aggressive, perhaps inappropriately aggressive for a sunday club race; he also had the starboard tack on you; and that's called tactics, it's what's he out there for - out skippering the other boats by making them do things they don't want to do. Assuming it's a PHRF race the only way he's going to beat bigger boats is to outsail them by manuveur and careful attention to what he's doing and what you are perhaps not doing.
Your boat could benefit from a tactician - someone doing nothing but watching what is going on and with the direct ear of the helmsman.
I am no expert, ya'll feel free to school me. This isn't COLREGS, this is bouy bouncing and you are looking for advantages some of which mean causing the other guy a disadvantage (unwanted tack, force off the line) I don't aggressively race my Gemini even in my club races because it's not as manuvuerable as the mono's and I don't want to get caught in a pre-race scrum at the start lines - but I do love to watch the others do it.
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