It's been suggested by a few idiots that a TV had now place on a modern crusing
boat. Now I'm no long range cruiser, but facts are facts!

Space: Have you guys ever heard of "flat screen TV?" Uses little power and
takes up even less space.
Safety: A properly mounted TV won't fly around in bad weather or a knockdown.
Power: Many long distance cruisers now carry nice laptops in addition to the
standard charts. These laptops can treat the cruiser to a movie now and again
with almost no power penalty.
The fact is that TV has become a no-brainer for easy entertainment on many a
cruising boat, espcially in recent years with flat panel displays. Anyone who
says otherwise is living in the past and hasn't read websites showing today's
cruisers and what they carry. Books, music? Of course! But a TV can be a great
treat for those aboard and doesn't need to stay home anymore.

Wake up and smell the 80's, kids. They've ended...long ago!

Bwahahahahaha!

RB

I don't even have my TV at home hooked up.

On 28 Jan 2004 13:33:30 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote:

It's been suggested by a few idiots that a TV had now place on a modern crusing
boat. Now I'm no long range cruiser, but facts are facts!

You've forgotten your medication again. And again, you're confused. We
talked about blue water sailing, not the modern cruiser solely used as
dock caravan.

Space: Have you guys ever heard of "flat screen TV?" Uses little power and
takes up even less space.

It's not the space..

Safety: A properly mounted TV won't fly around in bad weather or a knockdown.

It will not detach from the platform it's mounted to, agreed. Too bad
the platform itself will be flying through the cabin.

Power: Many long distance cruisers now carry nice laptops in addition to the
standard charts. These laptops can treat the cruiser to a movie now and again
with almost no power penalty.

A laptop is no TV. Yes, really.

The fact is that TV has become a no-brainer for easy entertainment on many a
cruising boat, espcially in recent years with flat panel displays. Anyone who
says otherwise is living in the past and hasn't read websites showing today's
cruisers and what they carry. Books, music? Of course! But a TV can be a great
treat for those aboard and doesn't need to stay home anymore.

....

Wake up and smell the 80's, kids. They've ended...long ago!

Yup. However, the ocean is still the same...


Cheers!


Remco

It will not detach from the platform it's mounted to, agreed. Too bad
the platform itself will be flying through the cabin.


If the bulkhead detaches, the TV is not something you'll be worried about,
braniac!

Bwahahahaha!

RB

Power: Many long distance cruisers now carry nice laptops in addition to the
standard charts. These laptops can treat the cruiser to a movie now and again
with almost no power penalty.

A laptop is no TV. Yes, really.

It's not? Laptops can play movies just fine, thank you.

Television:
1 : an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving
objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that
converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible
light rays and audible sound

Sounds like the Laptop and flat panel qualify! You're wrong again!

RB

Yup. However, the ocean is still the same...


Even on this you're wrong.
Amazing!


RB

On 28 Jan 2004 13:56:18 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote:

It will not detach from the platform it's mounted to, agreed. Too bad
the platform itself will be flying through the cabin.


If the bulkhead detaches, the TV is not something you'll be worried about,
braniac!

Agreed. I also have to clean my house. And feed the cat. And brush my
teeth.

Cheers!


Remco

On 28 Jan 2004 14:01:09 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote:

Power: Many long distance cruisers now carry nice laptops in addition to the
standard charts. These laptops can treat the cruiser to a movie now and again
with almost no power penalty.

A laptop is no TV. Yes, really.

It's not? Laptops can play movies just fine, thank you.

Television:
1 : an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving
objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that
converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible
light rays and audible sound

Sounds like the Laptop and flat panel qualify! You're wrong again!

With your logic a laptop is also a plane, ship and locomotive...

Cheers!


Remco

On 28 Jan 2004 14:01:48 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote:

Yup. However, the ocean is still the same...


Even on this you're wrong.
Amazing!

I meant that the ocean is still unpredictable... BTW, is it possible
for you to answer in a single post? Seems your short memory is
damaged....


Cheers!


Remco

Sounds like the Laptop and flat panel qualify! You're wrong again!

With your logic a laptop is also a plane, ship and locomotive...

Who's logic? The laptop is also a TV. Period.

RB