I fail to understand? Sailing from St. Thomas to St. Francis Bay on St. John doesn't appear to require 'passage' through BVI territorial waters, innocent or otherwise, and certainly would not require a 'fly by' of Soggy Dollar Bar on Jost Van Dyke. It seems a 'stretch' to define 'innocent passage' under the subject international agreement as allowing boaters indiscriminate trespass into foreign territorial waters for pleasure purposes. But then again, I'm not an authority on these matters. The captain/owner did admit on another report that he lost his cool, although I have no idea if 'playing nice' would have changed the outcome.


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