You can't substitute it for superior sea maneuvers.

I researched the sinking of this motor boat because of a link from Red State concerning an environmentalist Paul Watson.

The faster vessel had the speed and maneuverability sufficient to avoid colliding with a much stronger Japanese vessel and failed to do so.

It was either a display of insane and criminal environmentalist bravado or Japanese seagoing awesomeness.

You get to decide.

Unfortunately no environmentalists were killed ( as they want to do to everyone else but themselves ) and the boat "Ady Gil" was sunk after the environmentalists tried to decrease the LULZ by towing the vessel to a port.