Can't believe some hasn't called you out yet on this "event"

The photo order doesn't make sense in any way and actually suggests that the boats were, in my view, 150ft+ apart.

Photo number 2 is in the wrong place, it actually looks like it should be at the end of the photo sequence, ie after the big gin palace/stinkboat has passed.

You can see the disturbed white water from where the large boat passed, you can also see that the wake of the boat has reduced a good amount so again shows a good distance between the boats, all you are seeing is an optical illusion.

As for right of way, Col Regs say that power give way to sail, but you say that the sail boat was also under power, which seems strange due to the wind strength, it is totally strong enough for the boat not to be using an engine, plus the bow wave in my view matches what should be happening in that wind with just a jib/genoa out, the only reason I can see why they would have the engine on is to charge the batteries, but as you say this is at Bonifacio, then i'm guessing they would have come from a marina and thus connected to shore power and thus the batteries would have been fully charged over night........BUT if they were using the engine for power as well (no reason to in that wind) they should be indicating it by the way of a hoisted marker that they are also under power and thus power does not give way to sail, but Col Regs state that boats should pass PORT to PORT which is what they have done.

Totally pointless post about a non event that is just an optical illusion and a set of out of order pictures

#knot