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Originally Posted by Dave R
One legal way to inform a person ahead of you that you intend to overtake them is with the horn (one toot for starboard, two toots for port (you can use the radio too)). If the stand-on vessel does not respond with the same horn signals you should not overtake. However, if instead they speed up, then there's no need to overtake so everybody wins. The funny thing is, if they speed up they are technically not following the rules of being a stand-on boat...
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As noted, if they speed up just a little, say to 6 mph, everybody is legal and happy. The less often noted part of the right of way protocol is that it is not appropriate to assert right of way to arbitrarily impede another vessel's safe progress.