Vallie wrote:

What a completely useless and meaningless response. My first post to
this group and I have to be greeted by a wise ass.

Since your second post to the group was an insulting broadside (
Electric windlass) slamming users of autopilots,electric windlasses,
and chartplotters and touting your superiour ways, I thought you could
'take it' as well as 'dish it out'.
Obviously, this isn't the case.
Welcome to the newsgroup.
John