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You can use this task as a way to introduce a “need” to use/learn the ratios.
You might want to start this lesson with notice and wonder, and possibly taking a poll to see if students think the boat will hit the bridge.
Ask students what strategies / resources they would need to determine if the boat will hit the bridge.Then you could pivot away from this lesson to introduce the trigonometry ratios (https://mrorr-isageek.com/introducing-trig-through-slope/) then pivot back to allow your students to use the ratios to solve the problem.