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Whatever direction you're going in reverse ...
In Response To: Went out on a dead calm morning to test reverse... ()
just pretend that's what you intended. 
That's the advice I was given when I got my current boat -- a Rival 32.
On the bright side, at least you can control the direction of your sternway at the start. I can't even do that with any degree of certainty.
