Re: [Cal_Boats] New Satellite TV system for boats 25 to 40 feet

I found that claim kind of hard to believe too! The capper for me: TV is “easily the most important thing on the boat.” More important than a compass, or charts, or bilge pumps, or LIFE VESTS? I don't know....but when it comes to important "things" on a boat, TV is pretty low on my list. Rod Johnson, "NODROG" 1970 CAL 21, #285 On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:43:25 -0500 "Alfred Poor" <ap… [at] bellatlantic.net> writes: Folks, forgive the long post, but I found each paragraph in this press release a bit more incredible than the its predecessor. - 60% of 25’-to-40’ boats have color TVs - The RF remote lets you control the receiver from anywhere on the boat. - The capper for me: TV is “easily the most important thing on the boat.” Clearly, I’m sailing in a totally different universe at least two-thirds of the other boaters out there. If I were a live-aboard, I expect that I’d feel differently, but I haven’t found myself missing 300 channels of TV when I’m sailing. (And I am stunned to find that TV is more important than radar.) Alfred Poor 1969 Cal 29 #132, “Pentaquod”

Rodney G Johnson wrote: > I found that claim kind of hard to believe too! > > /The capper for me: TV is "easily the most important thing on the > boat."/ > > More important than a compass, or charts, or bilge pumps, or LIFE VESTS? > > I don't know....but when it comes to important "things" on a > boat, TV is pretty low on my list. > TV is not even on my list for the boat or for the home. I don't have enough time to get everything done now, and can't imagine how people find time to sit and stare at a box. Tonight I'm heading out after work to resaw some 3" walnut into boards to rebuild the forecastle hatch on our local schooner. These are from local trees that we were given and that we milled into planks about 5 years ago. I know walnut is the subject of a maritime superstition, but one of the schooner's captains (the guy with the saw mill) said a few years back, "I've been sneaking walnut onto the boat for years and nothing has happened." Walnut is stable and rot-resistant. And apart from schooner work, there are my own boats to attend to, and the reading pile to attack, and old radios to fix, and about 16 other interesting hobbies. I hit the 105th consecutive month on the Great Lakes in my kayak on Saturday, after trying to go iceboating (no wind). While I was paddling, some guys were out water skiing behind a big Ski Nautique (!!!!). Life is too short to stare at the TV. Chris Campbell