the sail boat has the right away and tonage rules.

the problem is that right of way is not absolute as a pedestrian cannot walk into your moving vehicle and blame the vehicle. if he was walking across the street in a normal fashion and was struck that would be different..

i would say that the problem was with the sailboat. those dingys are fast and manuverable and he should have been challenging your path wich would have been probably much slower than himself.

usually its the wind dicks that are the problem like when they set up their sail races right outside of shilshole harbor and then glare at all the power boats going thru the races and they do that during coho season with 200 power boats out there.

if they want to play like that, you can go out in a row boat so that you have the right of way over the sailboat and go chase them around.

personally i think those regattas should only be allowed where it woulb be safer and they shouldnt be allowed to use wdfw boat lunches during peak salmon seasons or set up the race just outside of the boat launch