I have not had the pleasure of cruising the San Juans for several years,
but I wanted to relate my own experience of being boarded- an American
in American waters. We drifted for two hours while they circled us w/
machine gun trained. Although they didn't destroy anything, they spent
over an hour of that time searching the boat stem to stern. When they
were done they told us thank you very much, this was A TRAINING
EXERCISE!