My thought on pull ropes is if you haven't fixed the starting problem that
drained the battery in the first place the rope is useless.
It might be nandy if you just killed the battery with your trolling motor and
you have a "first pull" engine. I did find out the hard way that if you simply
have an open cell in the battery one of these new EFI engines is still pretty
much dead. With an open cell the charging voltage quickly exceeds the over volt
setting in the computer and it shuts the engine down. I suppose if you were
really in trouble you could turn on everything electrical on the boat, run idle
speed and hope that loads the charging system down to an acceptable level. The
running lights were not enough on my 60 EFI merc. (although I didn't really
experiment much). A neighbor who owed me a tow came by about the time I knew I
was in trouble.