Around 0200, on a moonless night, Kennedy's boat was idling on one engine to avoid detection of her wake by Japanese aircraft, which had killed a PT officer in a previous night attack.
Another was keeping that boat idling.
The boat was idling along, maintaining just enough headway for maximum stability, and that was not saying much.
When you enter the Boat House, a boat idles.
The boat idles only 7% of the time.
"Before, we'd come down this river, and I would be checking out the other mariners," he said as the boat idled not far from an oil refinery on the Perth Amboy shore.
Once the boat idled in deep shadows, he queried, "Why do we halt, Senor Belasko, when we might be close to El Gato's lair?"
But now," he said as the boat idled not far from an oil refinery on the Perth Amboy shore, "I'm not only looking at the other mariners more.
Now the boat was idling a hundred feet offshore, with Jupiter handling the controls while Jeff got as swiftly as he could into an aqualung outfit.
A boat idled offshore out of sight around the point.