In article , Gary Coffman says...

The key thing you want reliable here is for the boat's engine to *run*
until you tell it to stop. So it should be designed to passively run until
you actively tell it to stop.

This is how aircraft magneto ignitions work. The coil wire
gets grounded to kill the spark. If anything along the way
goes open, the motor keeps on running.

Jim

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