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"Basically stop" really means subject to drift and currents, so while it's still problematic to heave to in a single-hander close to shore or shipping lanes, it's far less so than the original poster's "on a run while asleep".
If I observed or parallelled the course of a boat on a run with no one appearing on deck for even 10 minutes in a coastal situation, I would be tempted to call the Coast Guard in case someone was below having a cardiac arrest over the chart table. I have used a pretty loud air horn to get people's attention, and they always act surprised because the last time they checked, I was "miles away on an otherwise empty lake".
Yeah, right.
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