Overtaking a slower vessel

You are making 16 knots on 000° with a delivery deadline. A displacement trawler-yacht is dead ahead at two and a half miles, same course, making 8 knots. You are coming up on her from right astern.

Independent preparatory study aligned to the MCA OOW (Yachts <3000 GT) oral examination syllabus. Not an MCA-approved course and confers no credit toward a Certificate of Competency.