"Larry" wrote in message
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I've never been rafted up over about 12 deep for the weekend. One of
our friends has a trawler with a serious power plant he's not afraid to
leave running. Everyone fills his trawler back at the dock on the way
in. Oh, the pleasure to have a COOL, BUG FREE place where you don't
have to drown in everyone's stink all weekend or worry about leaving the
lights in the head running all night. It's just as cool on the last
sailboat out by the speedboats we go to the beaches with.

Party's on the trawler, tonight. One of the boats is back from South
America and we're going to see the pictures on the 52" big screen TV.

Is sitting there in the dark with your flashlights "better", somehow???

For me rafting up (not more than!!) 12 deep and watching big screen TV
while someone runs a large generator to power it all is not my idea of
cruising. How loud do you have the sound? Can anyone escape hearing it even
if they do not want to watch the film?
I do not sit in the dark with a flashlight. I have decent batteries if I
want light, but sitting in the dark in a quiet anchorage under the stars
while having a drink with a congenial friend is much more to my taste than
the picture you paint. Everyone to his own taste.