On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:02:07 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

My slip neighbors's remote control system is really cool. Once, while
docking, he actually hopped off his boat (a 51' Sealine) onto the dock and
continued to back the boat into the slip, aligning it up with the thruster
and transmission controls on his handheld remote.

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Earlier in the year we were on a cruise ship almost 800 ft long that
had one of those. They could maneuver the whole thing on and off a
pier with just a couple of joy sticks.