wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

I don't understand what the hassle is with all those batteries.

I have a 15" LCD tv and a sub-$30 DVD player (plays commercial and
home-made DVD's) and I run them both off a tiny inverter (I think 70W)
about the size of a pack of ciggies.

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

A laptop with LOTS of uses is far better than a little DVD player that
will only play STORE BOUGHT DVDs and CDs...

What are you talking about? I have 3 DVD players. One at home, one at
work, one on boat and they all play DVD's I've burned. (The one at home
was also easily converted to region free and no copypro via a hidden
menu I learned about on usenet.)

How much jooce does that laptop require? I run 15"LCD & DVD off a cheapo
70W invertor. ;)

I do think the device is great for easy HD if one has a fast laptop. But
that laptop probably costs twice or more what a dedicated HD set might
cost.

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On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:19:34 -0500, in message

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote:

The thing is there is a big difference between "going boating" and living on
a boat for 6 months or longer. A cruising boat is not a camper although a
lot of people use than as such. A cruising boat is a home and should have
what ever conveniences and amenities as the owner feels he needs.

I agree with your point that there's nothing wrong with making a
cruising boat as comfortable as one wishes. I'd just like to add a
supplemental note.

My boat doesn't have all the comforts of home by a long shot, but I
spent about 3 1/2 months straight on the boat away from home port last
year and still missed being on the boat when I came home to all the
comforts. I found that I don't need all the conveniences and amenities
I thought I did.

Ryk

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

The thought of watching "Casablanca" on my super cool DVD player with
the
computer speakers ..........


Now you're talking! Nothing like a quiet night on the hook watching The
Devil and Daniel Webster...or Jaws before the next morning swim!
DVDs and CD's/Ipod offer smart entertainment onboard. They take up
almost no space and don't use much power. You can store 100 movies in
the space of a couple of paperbacks.



Robert
Beneteau 35s5
NY

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

Most Honorable Captain Rob ,,,

There is a reason that "babe" is sleeping on "your" boat!

Last summer as I was cruising about Casco Bay, I anchored up the New Meadows
River at a spot called The Basin. Had my after sail coffee, listened to
some music, starting reading and ................. then I plugged in my el
cheapo black and white tv. The B/W tv runs off of the cigarette battery
power plug ..

I figured I'd never get any reception. Wrong! A very clear station came
on ... it was the NHP Station ... national public tv ,, the education
station or whathaveya ..

I sit back, pour a cup ,,, relax ..... and guess what the show is?

A documentary of the sinking of the Andrea Doria.

How is that for irony?
===================

And then one night recently I am watching some show on some channel ..
history channel, discover ?? One of those ... and the show is all about a
nuclear submarine. One of the major problems on a sub is weight, and space.
Makes sense ,, under the water and all. As the program went on it showed
how the sub dealt with this ... one major breakthrough in sub technology
was the CD Rom. Those little CD's replaced all the paper on the sub. There
is a CD for everything. Menu for the gallery, storage, weapons, systems,,
you name it. And they take up about the size of a little closet. When the
sub had paper, it was a major problem carrying all the info. So much weight
was gone and so much space was available that the crew had more space to
live in.

So, not only will I be bringing DVD's for movies, I will bring along all the
system DVS's, fix it DVD's, the how to sail it DVD's, etc.

High tech !!

I will bring along my Disco's Greatest hits CD though... my boat was built
in 1975!




"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
ups.com...

The thought of watching "Casablanca" on my super cool DVD player with
the
computer speakers ..........


Now you're talking! Nothing like a quiet night on the hook watching The
Devil and Daniel Webster...or Jaws before the next morning swim!
DVDs and CD's/Ipod offer smart entertainment onboard. They take up
almost no space and don't use much power. You can store 100 movies in
the space of a couple of paperbacks.



Robert
Beneteau 35s5
NY

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

"Larry" wrote in message
...

I've collected a few and no, I don't send them out:
MASTER MOVIE LIST
11/23/06 2747 movies
Movies beginning with "The" listed by 2nd word in title.

$windle
10th and Wolf
10.5 - The Final Earthquake
snippage

You do realise, of course, that usenet downloaded movies are pirated?

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

I don't know why you wouldn't expect reception in The Basin, its only
6 miles from Bath, about 8 from Brunswick. It just feels like it in
the boonies. My TV, admittedly with a powered antennae 20 feet up the
mast, gets a clear signal from up to 50 miles.


NE Sailboat wrote:
Most Honorable Captain Rob ,,,

There is a reason that "babe" is sleeping on "your" boat!

Last summer as I was cruising about Casco Bay, I anchored up the New Meadows
River at a spot called The Basin. Had my after sail coffee, listened to
some music, starting reading and ................. then I plugged in my el
cheapo black and white tv. The B/W tv runs off of the cigarette battery
power plug ..

I figured I'd never get any reception. Wrong! A very clear station came
on ... it was the NHP Station ... national public tv ,, the education
station or whathaveya ..

I sit back, pour a cup ,,, relax ..... and guess what the show is?

A documentary of the sinking of the Andrea Doria.

How is that for irony?
===================

And then one night recently I am watching some show on some channel ..
history channel, discover ?? One of those ... and the show is all about a
nuclear submarine. One of the major problems on a sub is weight, and space.
Makes sense ,, under the water and all. As the program went on it showed
how the sub dealt with this ... one major breakthrough in sub technology
was the CD Rom. Those little CD's replaced all the paper on the sub. There
is a CD for everything. Menu for the gallery, storage, weapons, systems,,
you name it. And they take up about the size of a little closet. When the
sub had paper, it was a major problem carrying all the info. So much weight
was gone and so much space was available that the crew had more space to
live in.

So, not only will I be bringing DVD's for movies, I will bring along all the
system DVS's, fix it DVD's, the how to sail it DVD's, etc.

High tech !!

I will bring along my Disco's Greatest hits CD though... my boat was built
in 1975!




"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
ups.com...
The thought of watching "Casablanca" on my super cool DVD player with
the
computer speakers ..........


Now you're talking! Nothing like a quiet night on the hook watching The
Devil and Daniel Webster...or Jaws before the next morning swim!
DVDs and CD's/Ipod offer smart entertainment onboard. They take up
almost no space and don't use much power. You can store 100 movies in
the space of a couple of paperbacks.



Robert
Beneteau 35s5
NY

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

Jeff ,,, I was just looking at a chart .... since you seem to know the area
... is it a tough ride up the Kennebec?


"Jeff" wrote in message
. ..
I don't know why you wouldn't expect reception in The Basin, its only 6
miles from Bath, about 8 from Brunswick. It just feels like it in the
boonies. My TV, admittedly with a powered antennae 20 feet up the mast,
gets a clear signal from up to 50 miles.


NE Sailboat wrote:
Most Honorable Captain Rob ,,,

There is a reason that "babe" is sleeping on "your" boat!

Last summer as I was cruising about Casco Bay, I anchored up the New
Meadows River at a spot called The Basin. Had my after sail coffee,
listened to some music, starting reading and ................. then I
plugged in my el cheapo black and white tv. The B/W tv runs off of the
cigarette battery power plug ..

I figured I'd never get any reception. Wrong! A very clear station came
on ... it was the NHP Station ... national public tv ,, the education
station or whathaveya ..

I sit back, pour a cup ,,, relax ..... and guess what the show is?

A documentary of the sinking of the Andrea Doria.

How is that for irony?
===================

And then one night recently I am watching some show on some channel ..
history channel, discover ?? One of those ... and the show is all about
a nuclear submarine. One of the major problems on a sub is weight, and
space. Makes sense ,, under the water and all. As the program went on it
showed how the sub dealt with this ... one major breakthrough in sub
technology was the CD Rom. Those little CD's replaced all the paper on
the sub. There is a CD for everything. Menu for the gallery, storage,
weapons, systems,, you name it. And they take up about the size of a
little closet. When the sub had paper, it was a major problem carrying
all the info. So much weight was gone and so much space was available
that the crew had more space to live in.

So, not only will I be bringing DVD's for movies, I will bring along all
the system DVS's, fix it DVD's, the how to sail it DVD's, etc.

High tech !!

I will bring along my Disco's Greatest hits CD though... my boat was
built in 1975!




"Capt. Rob" wrote in message
ups.com...
The thought of watching "Casablanca" on my super cool DVD player with
the
computer speakers ..........


Now you're talking! Nothing like a quiet night on the hook watching The
Devil and Daniel Webster...or Jaws before the next morning swim!
DVDs and CD's/Ipod offer smart entertainment onboard. They take up
almost no space and don't use much power. You can store 100 movies in
the space of a couple of paperbacks.



Robert
Beneteau 35s5
NY

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

I've never gone all the way up by boat, but it isn't that bad a trip.
The river is wide and deep, somewhat bigger than the New Meadows.
Of course, with 100 foot hills on both side of the river, I wouldn't
expect it to be a reach.

Every trip that we've had the time to consider the various inland
routes, we've used that time to head further East, like to Merchants' Row.


NE Sailboat wrote:
Jeff ,,, I was just looking at a chart .... since you seem to know the area
.. is it a tough ride up the Kennebec?


"Jeff" wrote in message
. ..
I don't know why you wouldn't expect reception in The Basin, its only 6
miles from Bath, about 8 from Brunswick. It just feels like it in the
boonies. My TV, admittedly with a powered antennae 20 feet up the mast,
gets a clear signal from up to 50 miles.


NE Sailboat wrote:
Most Honorable Captain Rob ,,,

There is a reason that "babe" is sleeping on "your" boat!

Last summer as I was cruising about Casco Bay, I anchored up the New
Meadows River at a spot called The Basin. Had my after sail coffee,
listened to some music, starting reading and ................. then I
plugged in my el cheapo black and white tv. The B/W tv runs off of the
cigarette battery power plug ..

I figured I'd never get any reception. Wrong! A very clear station came
on ... it was the NHP Station ... national public tv ,, the education
station or whathaveya ..

I sit back, pour a cup ,,, relax ..... and guess what the show is?

A documentary of the sinking of the Andrea Doria.

How is that for irony?

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

Legality never bothered Larry. It's just his contribution to the plot to
put the jew run movie studios out of business.

NE Sailboat wrote:

Captain Larry ,, let me see if I have this right ... I buy a laptop. Then
I purchase an external hard drive. Download the movies onto the external
hard drive ,, instant movie library.

Is this all legal?

------------------------


"Larry" wrote in message
...

"Capt. Rob" wrote in news:1164551737.250119.99120
:


You can store 100 movies in
the space of a couple of paperbacks.


A hundred? You want me to ERASE 90% of the hard drive??...(c;

There's another issue on a boat, too. DVD/CD storage of FRAGILE disks
for the DVD player. If he gets a nice laptop and adds one of the
monsterous hard drives in a $39 USB external hard drive box, there are NO
disks to store, scratch, curse over when they don't work. Just plug in
the USB drive, select which genre music/movies you want and pick from the
400 movies and 25,000 music files to play. Load the drive at home and
just carry it all to the boat. My 750GB external hd is about a foot
long, 3" thick and 5" wide. DivX movies from alt.binaries.movies.divx
end up being from 700MB to 1.4GB each, depending on how the ripper
compressed them. Storing 500 of these movies is easy!

Those old movies you like are also posted to:
alt.binaries.movies
alt.binaries.boneless
alt.binaries.multimedia.vintage-film
alt.binaries.multimedia.vintage-film.post-1960

Wonderful old TV shows are also posted to:
alt.binaries.multimedia.vintage-tv

There's thousands of them on usenetserver.com as I'm typing this. Help
yourself..(c;

I've collected a few and no, I don't send them out:
MASTER MOVIE LIST

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

A hundred? You want me to ERASE 90% of the hard drive??...(c;

There's another issue on a boat, too. DVD/CD storage of FRAGILE disks
for the DVD player. If he gets a nice laptop and adds one of the
monsterous hard drives in a $39 USB external hard drive box, there are
NO
disks to store, scratch, curse over when they don't work.


DVDs are not fragile, less so than a HD. Keep them in a thick CD wallet
and you're all done. I used a laptop for a TV on a boat. It was a high
end dell. The angles for best viewing were pretty poor compared to my
smaller Sony. Also, for a few bucks my Sony gets a total replacement at
Circuit City. That warranty on the Dell was a lot more and I was
risking a 1600 dollar machine...not a good thing just to watch an
occasional movie. Because the Sony's screen swivels and folds flat
tablet style, it can also be mounted.


Robert
35s5
NY

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

Oh no ,,, not the Jew Bankers again!



"krj" wrote in message
...
Legality never bothered Larry. It's just his contribution to the plot to
put the jew run movie studios out of business.

NE Sailboat wrote:

Captain Larry ,, let me see if I have this right ... I buy a laptop.
Then I purchase an external hard drive. Download the movies onto the
external hard drive ,, instant movie library.

Is this all legal?

------------------------


"Larry" wrote in message
...

"Capt. Rob" wrote in news:1164551737.250119.99120
:


You can store 100 movies in
the space of a couple of paperbacks.


A hundred? You want me to ERASE 90% of the hard drive??...(c;

There's another issue on a boat, too. DVD/CD storage of FRAGILE disks
for the DVD player. If he gets a nice laptop and adds one of the
monsterous hard drives in a $39 USB external hard drive box, there are NO
disks to store, scratch, curse over when they don't work. Just plug in
the USB drive, select which genre music/movies you want and pick from the
400 movies and 25,000 music files to play. Load the drive at home and
just carry it all to the boat. My 750GB external hd is about a foot
long, 3" thick and 5" wide. DivX movies from alt.binaries.movies.divx
end up being from 700MB to 1.4GB each, depending on how the ripper
compressed them. Storing 500 of these movies is easy!

Those old movies you like are also posted to:
alt.binaries.movies
alt.binaries.boneless
alt.binaries.multimedia.vintage-film
alt.binaries.multimedia.vintage-film.post-1960

Wonderful old TV shows are also posted to:
alt.binaries.multimedia.vintage-tv

There's thousands of them on usenetserver.com as I'm typing this. Help
yourself..(c;

I've collected a few and no, I don't send them out:
MASTER MOVIE LIST

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:50:32 GMT, Rosalie B.
wrote:

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.

If you are heading offshore don't forget the satellite photos and the
7 day Navy wave height forecast. I find them invaluable and suspect
that Herb does also.

https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/PUBLIC/WAM/wam.html

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeseasthurrir.html

Also on the internet, take a look at:

http://crownweather.com/tropical.html

They come pretty close to having it all.

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On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:50:43 -0500, "Glenn Ashmore"
wrote:

Forget the TV. I just got back from Wallyworld. There is something really
illogical about seeing THREE million dollar plus Wonderlodges "camping" in
the parking lot! I think I would rather anchor off the commercial dock at
Ponce than a Wal-Mart parking lot. :-)

Yes, and some of these so called RV parks don't look very appealing
either.

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On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:54:20 GMT, "NE Sailboat"
wrote:

If I can decide ??? Always a hard thing ... and I can buy two or three extra
battery packs on Ebay cheap ... why not.

Go to your favorite marine store and buy a $30 inverter. Play your
DVDs, charge your cell phone, power your laptop, run your electric
drill, TV, etc., etc.

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:12:01 GMT, "NE Sailboat"
wrote:

I was just looking at a chart .... since you seem to know the area
.. is it a tough ride up the Kennebec?

In my experience the toughest part is at the entry. If you have a
strong outgoing tide/current against an incoming southerly swell,
things can get a bit "disturbed". Pick your day and time and you'll
be fine.

wondering .. do you have a TV on board? How ....
 

"Larry" wrote in message
...
"NE Sailboat" wrote in news:gt6ah.4419$Kw2.3963
@trndny05:

TV Onboard Report ::; from the sailor who started this madness.


Got a laptop computer?

Feh, jack of all trades, master of none. For something simple like watching
a movie using a laptop sucks compared to a plain old portable DVD player.
The DVD players don't have to boot (or have an entirely crappy BIOS player).
That and portable DVD players generally have *considerably* better battery
life than laptops. Finally, one's spouse, family, friends and/or children
can generally use a portable DVD player entirely without assistance. Never
underestimate the value of simple devices.

I've got laptops and know how to use them. I greatly prefer a plain DVD
player instead.