Alan makes a great point, we often talk about AIS, Radar, inverters, stabilizers, etc. But that's not life, not for me anyway. Part of a PPM should include the things that we enjoy as part of our lives. What "toys" do you really want to have for long term liveaboard/cruising? For me, it would be a great audio system. I was a performing musician as a youngster and now am a recovered audiophile, so don't need vacuum tubes and an engineered sound room, but bose sound cubes just aren't real music (to me anyway). The physics of sound requires at least a moderate sized set of speakers, especially for the mid-bass and below. I'm not sure if power is so much as issue as the space, size, and mounting of speakers. Has anyone seen/heard anything good out there on a cruising boat? Any chance of getting a realistic performance from Bernstein, Ella Fitzgerald, or Tower or Power on my boat ;-) (yes, I can see the eyes rolling out there, and no headphones just don't cut it). --- On Sun, 12/7/08, Alan Wagner <Wagner.Florida@verizon.net> wrote: > I confess that I want a TV in each stateroom and lots of > speakers to play high quality, loud music whenever I wanted to throughout > the boat. No one needs air conditioning, flat screens, and a great sound > system, but I want the boat to be a home, not just a way to get across the > Atlantic.

Well, I sing and whistle a lot and am available for long passages!! Everything on a vessel is compromise. God Bless - Ross - 10&2 On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Mark <mark424x@yahoo.com> wrote: > Alan makes a great point, we often talk about AIS, Radar, inverters, stabilizers, etc. But that's not life, not for me anyway. Part of a PPM should include the things that we enjoy as part of our lives. > > What "toys" do you really want to have for long term liveaboard/cruising? > > For me, it would be a great audio system. I was a performing musician as a youngster and now am a recovered audiophile, so don't need vacuum tubes and an engineered sound room, but bose sound cubes just aren't real music (to me anyway). The physics of sound requires at least a moderate sized set of speakers, especially for the mid-bass and below. I'm not sure if power is so much as issue as the space, size, and mounting of speakers. > > Has anyone seen/heard anything good out there on a cruising boat? > Any chance of getting a realistic performance from Bernstein, Ella Fitzgerald, or Tower or Power on my boat ;-) (yes, I can see the eyes rolling out there, and no headphones just don't cut it). > > > --- On Sun, 12/7/08, Alan Wagner <Wagner.Florida@verizon.net> wrote: >> I confess that I want a TV in each stateroom and lots of >> speakers to play high quality, loud music whenever I wanted to throughout >> the boat. No one needs air conditioning, flat screens, and a great sound >> system, but I want the boat to be a home, not just a way to get across the >> Atlantic. > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/passagemaking-under-power > > To unsubscribe send email to > passagemaking-under-power-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Passagemaking Under Power and PUP are trademarks of Water World Productions, formerly known as Trawler World Productions.