True, but it does limit the length of a passage to the time one can stay awake.

"Keith" wrote in message
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Yea, but that doesn't require a second person.

"Jeff Morris" wrote in message
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"Curtis CCR" wrote in message
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Rufus wrote in message
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Might also attract the CG, since single handing normally implies
breaking the rules about always having a lookout on deck.

What rules say you have to a "lookout on deck"?

Normally this would require a sarcastic reply, but I sense you might be
serious.

from "the Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing
Collisions
at Sea"
and, in the US, the "Inland Navigational Rules"

RULE 5
Look-out
Every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight
and hearing as well as by all available means appropriate in the
prevailing
circumstances and conditions so as to make a full appraisal of
the situation and of the risk of collision.

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/mwv/navrules/rotr_online.htm