Hi Bob and all
I have to tell that i never built one of these, but concept seems to be
great for boat as these folks have done all kinds of cool machines around
Mini ITX computers. I think it would make great boat computer for navigation
as well.
Search Mini ITX or simply start on:

http://www.via.com.tw/en/VInternet/carpc.jsp
http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=106
http://www.dakotaproject.com/index.htm
http://www.mini-itx.com/

It's pretty cool
J.T.Tuomela

"TORMAC53" wrote in message
...
I have a 53' sailboat and want to be able to take my music collection with
me.
I would like to sort through songs by artist, type of music etc. I usually
use
car components as the units are mounted below decks.
I have read about the Rio Riots, but they use powered speakers and they
rarely
sound good.
We like to have good quality sound in the center cockpit as well as a
dance
level volume when appropriate. If I have dedicate a seperate computer to
this I
would but I would keep it apart from navigation as I like redundancy and
independant systems for important items. Life has a sound track if you
listen
close enough.
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks
Bob Glennon