On Jun 20, 11:25*am, Gene Kearns
wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:31:54 -0700 (PDT),
penned the following well considered
thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Well, the title says it all. Maybe a hundred years ago it was cool,
but there is really too much traffic in most places now for folks to
have unattended helm, even for a few seconds. Why do they still do it?

Because trains don't jounce up and down like boats. On anything other
that a calm lake, the overworked accelerator pump would double the
amount of gas used per mile.

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I never thought about it, but whenever I've had the chance to use a
hotfoot setup, it was indeed just like that.