Addicted to TV ?

[rogerroger]

Went on several large stink pots at SBS yesterday - why a TV and video / DVD in every cabin ?

The Moody 64 at a cool £940,000, on the other hand didn't have a tube in sight ?

Isn't the point of boating to get away from it all? Are people who buy stink pots addicted to TV ?



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[JeremyF]

I guess that if your passage time from Port Solent to Cowes is only 30 mins, you need something to occupy the crew before the pubs open.

Or maybe the noise from the engine dulls the brain, and after a 30 min blast one needs an injection of Neighbours.

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[Steve101]

IMHO TV is for the kids so they don't interupt the obvious chill out time being enjoyed by the adults on deck. Bob the builder and the Tweenies have a lot to be thanked for!

 

[hlb]

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[Jeremy_W]

Obviously tcm hasn't succumbed, or he'd know Les Battersby from a heating engineer!

 

[VMALLOWS]

Wouldn't even have a TV licence except for SWMBO.

Couldn't live without 96.1 and 92.9.

(for those outside the Solent: our local radio station, BBC Radio Solent; and RADIO 4.)

 

[JeremyF]

Radio 4, yes. The inane chatter on Solent I could do without. They sometimes forget to read the weather forecast out at xx.35 - its been as late at xx.50. It really is a shite channel.

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[VMALLOWS]

Oh come on...... you get a decent forecast every 30minutes in the morning without waiting 4 hours for the CG. (except early Sunday mornings, which escapes me.........your don't get them when you most need them).

And you can have a chat with Nick as well.

 

[JeremyF]

Thats true. I wonder if they could patch channel 16 through to Nick, and he could do the tadio checks for everyone, live on air. It would be much more interesting than their usual fare.

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[VMALLOWS]

They could also do with Ch 11 for covering WW2 bomb stories!!!

 

[tcm]

Re: tv on boats

It seesm a fad from the manufacturers - stinkpots have tvs in every room, and sailboats have a car radio with a fader (maybe) so the cd can play on deck OR in the saloon or indeed both. Seems that some have too many and others (million quid moody) are bit light.

For the record, we can only get sky news/cnn from med and not itv. There should be more to do on a boat, agreed.

BUT latest gimcrackery has twin radar/chartplotter sceen witth facility to combine the screens and put radar and plottter and data on one screen and er play dvd's on the other, quite fun for long open-sea trips...

 

[pkb]

What's wrong with TV on board. Wouldn't be without my tv/dvd combination. I wasn't aware there was specific, all encompassing point in boating. Different strokes for different folks as they say - provided we respect each other's differences and right to choose. Tolerance in all things.

Peter

 

[tcm]

Re: tolerance

I disagree. I think that a sure-footed, hard-headed and somewhat intolerant nature is required - if boatowners were soggliy tolerant, they wouldn't mind things breaking, heading off half-prepared or having a messy and unkempt boat. As an example, I absolutely insisted on the boatbuilder including as many free tv/dvd systems as possible, and I also scowl at anyone idle enough to waste time watching them very much. I am quite intolerant of people who go around tolerating the surrent state of affairs, hardly a productive state of mind for improving anything at all.

 

[rogerroger]

I didn't write that there was anything remotely wrong with having a TV on board, I have a small portable on mine. I simply wondered why even £1m Moodys don't have them when every Sunseeker I went on had one in every cabin...

People can dress as sheep and play ping pong with treacle on their boats as far as I care...

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[Steve101]

Ping pong with treacle eh? I must try that!

 

[tcm]

Re: ping pong

I have a ping pong set on our boat. You need the small bats really. Other games include football in the saloon, and a scalextric - the 6x3 foot set is fab cos the cars just wham into the wall instead of zooming off miles away. I did not imagine i wd see this sort of discussion on s'butt.

Agreed, the Moody (and most sailboats, if not most powerboats too) have awful spec for a sound system - anyone spending a million surely wouldn't actuially own a car or house or anything with such a manky set of AV gear. Did anyone else feel that the moody was actually rather ful of sleeping cabins? Mind you, plenty of space for ping pong as I recall.

 

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[vyv_cox]

We watched the World Cup final on a TV built into a new Hallberg Rassy 46, at Rendsburg on the Kiel Canal. I guess it was a 17 inch or so, in its own locker. We were all non-Germans, they were all in the marina bar, being very quiet.

 

[pkb]

Re: tolerance

Mmmm. Suppose that's one way of looking at the world.

 

[rogerroger]

games on board

On a charter trip to Salcombe years ago on a 34' Jen, a crew member brought "Jenga" to keep us entertained!



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