"The Windward Passage =:
A pinch point.
A funnel steering Spanish ships through it.
Appropriate for hunters having observed the pattern and understanding the causation; to take advantage of.
I wasn't aware.
But there's other pinch points I'm just as not aware of too! l.o.l..
Also interesting the couple careening spots mentioned. Like tiny isles. Opposed to harbor shore or near populated sites?
Not wanting to walk on the debris ,or suffer the stench of dead worms and barnacles might have factored too?
Or just uneasy folks of varied ships over the years not wanting to be in harms way too deliberately , but close enough for secondary craft to intersperse into and from know societal groups?
In hunting I often refer to "vantage".
Not just vantage points for a hunter. But for the hunted as well.
Combined right they have a higher contact rate than other sites. The why's apply!
(Like The Windward Passages "vantage".)