An eye-opening thread -- thanks to all who've contributed.

On our recent charter with TMM the lanyard was tightly wrapped around the throttle handle, apparently to prevent it from getting lost. I didn't give it much thought at the time and didn't try to unwrap it, but you're all making me rethink that.

I do bring along one of these as a backup.

Dan <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Cheers.gif" alt="" />