Key word here: RACING vessel. The eco-terrorists had the faster and more maneuverable vessel. It chose to get in the way of the bigger vessel. From the video I saw, they seemed to have been trying to deploy something out the back of the Gil, perhaps something to lay in the path of the Jap ship and foul its propellers. They played chicken with a bigger ship, and they lost.
I would not be upset if the Japanese hosed them down with machine guns.
Or like I said in post 36, hull them with the harpoons.
About four below the waterline should do it.
I’d pay money for video of that.
For the last several years the Sea Shepherds have tried to deploy a “prop fouler” to disable the Japanese ships. They have cut across the bow of the Japanese ship with an inflatable boat and deployed a line with floats on it in the hope it would snag in the prop of the Japanese ship. They have been completely unsuccessful.
IIRC correctly from reading about the collision, that is what the Ady Gill was trying to do. So that explains why the AG accelerated across the bow of the Japanese ship at the last minute.
Anyone who tries to disable another ship on the high seas is a criminal. The end.