My ship was berthed. I was home in bed. I think the rules gave me fairly solid justification for not getting under way and out of the way. What do you think?
I have long and extensive experience sailing in Sydney Harbour (my favourite (temporary rental) house ever was on the waterfront of Rushcutters Bay, a yachtsman’s Mecca) and can advise not to get in their way, but they are skilful masters and I’ve observed numerous instances where huge, fast ferries avoid dinghies and idiots on paddle boars etc. We used to have even faster hydrofoil ferries at 40 kts which were even more impressive at weaving their way through. At the end of the day, collisions still have to be avoided and they do pretty well.