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    The Distress Call

    Jun 18, 2019 3 minutes
    BY DAVID PARKINSON

    “Navigator 2, Navigator 2, this is the motoryacht Angelo, channel 16. Switch to channel 68 and come in, please…come in, please.”

    The urgency in the voice coming from the flybridge VHF radio surprised us. For a couple of hours, our radars had been tracking the vessel closing in on us from astern—which, at present speed and course, presented a potential collision risk.

    Now, we learned, the boat had been following us on purpose. Responding on channel 68, an agitated

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