I too have a switch and can pull current from battery#1 battery #2 or both. As to the question of getting home. We were on our way to see a band play that evening, we called the other couple to tell them we would be late, since they live just around the cove from us they decided to bring us a batter...

I was in a jam last Saturday with 2, yes 2 dead batteries in the mddle of the Potomac River and very little wind. I thought no problem,I'll just get out the handy dandy little emergency rope and start the engine to go home. Ha Ha. The rope is long enough to make one and a quarter turns around the pu...