Dave wrote:

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:26:13 -0600, "KLC Lewis" said:

There is at least one really good reason for having a TV aboard, at least
for coastal and/or Great Lakes sailing: Weather Reports.

Well, there is this technology called AM-FM radio.

Come to that there is the NOAA radio reports. But the radio mostly
just repeats someone else's written forecast, and the TV stations
sometimes have real meteorologists thinking about the weather.

I basically use 3 or 4 sources for weather before I decide if it is Go
or No-Go. I like to look at the weather channel on TV, local TV
stations, NOAA weather on the radio, and if we are going off shore I
will also use the SSB and talk to Herb.

Except for Herb, I always look at those forecasts with a little
skeptism - I think about why they are saying what they say, and I look
at the weather map and the radar images that they show and make up my
own mind.