Talk:Self-steering gear

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Im not sure the second to last paragraph really belongs here, it seems off topic, and properly belongs in an article on single-handing. "The topic of single handed sailors sleeping and hence not maintaining a 'proper watch for safe navigation' continues to be much discussed. Although this practice appears to be in contravention of maritime law, there has so far been no attempt to prevent it. A pragmatic approach is that such individuals are at least endangering only themselves, since the large cargo vessels that may collide with them while they are asleep typically are not even aware that they have hit something. In addition, radar alarms and the sheer vastness of the ocean mean that the problem is more one of theory than of practice."

84.254.188.2 10:16, 3 August 2007 (UTC)whoknows?