Dave wrote:
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:27:31 -0400, g wrote:

Hi
Just bought a used boat and it has a Autohelm ST50 plus
any one know how to get the speed to read in MPH and not in knots per
hour?


You don't want to. Charts are in nautical miles, not statute miles. If don't
know what to do with that you probably shouldn't be driving a boat at all.

The question sorta reminds me of the time a number of years ago when I was
picking my way carefully from buoy to buoy near dark coming into Stratford,
with water depths of about a foot on either side of the channel, when a big
power boat roars up and stops beside me and the skipper yells out "Hey, is
this the Housatonic River?"


~10 years ago i was just off the housatonic river (maybe 3 miles) on my
j-24, when a ~35ft powerboat came alongside and asked "which way to long
island?"

maybe it was the same guy..., there can't be many powerboaters who are that
clueless, right?