On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:53:21 GMT, "Roger Long"
wrote:

My boating tastes are a little too Amish like for that.

The Amish are very practical people. After fixing the manual head a
couple of times, always under the worst of circumstances because there
is no good time for a broken head, they would go electric also.

In order to get a reliable manual head you have to go with something
like the "Baby Blake" which costs a King's ransom. It took me a while
to capitulate also but I would never go back, and neither will anyone
else that I know who has made the switch (no pun intended).

http://www.blakes-lavac-taylors.co.uk/blakes_baby.htm

The only thing better than a boat with an electric head is a boat with
two of them.