An Oak Bay couple is warning others after they were “aggressively” stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard and Border Patrol while on a sailing trip to Poets Cove on Pender Island.

Lori Petryk and her husband, David Hadley, sailed from Oak Bay on Aug. 22, but along the way they received unexpected company near Turn Point Lighthouse.

The couple, who had their children with them on the sailboat, had lost their wind as they got closer to Pender Island and ended up in U.S. waters. Suddenly, Petryk says her husband yelled for everyone to put on their lifejackets as a boat was coming towards them at a high rate of speed. He feared they wouldn’t be able to get out of the way in time in their slow-moving sailboat.

Petryk said they couldn’t tell the incoming boat was a Coast Guard vessel until it got cl

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