Patent ID: 7736204

Claim:
A marine vessel running controlling apparatus for a marine vessel which includes a propulsive force generating unit having an engine with an electric throttle as a drive source to generate a propulsive force to propel a hull of the marine vessel, the marine vessel running controlling apparatus comprising: an operational unit to be operated by an operator of the marine vessel to control the propulsive force; a control unit arranged to acquire a normal data sample by eliminating an abnormal data sample from actual data acquired during travel of the marine vessel, and update control information related to an opening degree of the electric throttle with respect to an operation amount of the operational unit based on the normal data sample; and an abnormal drive judging unit arranged to judge whether the engine is in an abnormal drive state; wherein the control unit includes an actual data eliminating unit arranged to eliminate an actual data sample acquired in a period during which the abnormal drive judging unit judges that the engine is in the abnormal drive state.