Fly Bridge Entertainment.

[hlb]

I've been wondering about the best way to get entertainment upstairs. but also vhf maybe. Thought of just putting some speakers up there and run from downstairs blaster. But a bit of a pain running up and down for volume etc. Cant see a cd deck lasting long up there though. Any suggestions??

 

[PhilF]

Live band and a stripper

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Do you mean whilst at sea or stationary? We tried our flybridge speakers @ 20knots and even at max volume, they're barely audible from the helm but then they are fixed in the radar arch a few feet back. I dont approve of blasting out music from the flybridge speakers whilst in the marina. It annoys other people and advertises your dreadful taste in music /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Nick_H]

Clarion do a CD player with waterproof remote which could be put upstairs. Alternatively get an ipod and an FM transmitter, then you can control the music (not the volume, but you can pause the track) from wherever you are on the boat. Mixed reviews on these FM transmitters, but the one we have works really well and powers the ipod at the same time.

 

[bob_tyler]

If you need "entertainment" under way you must be bored out of your mind. Why go out?

Don't use it in Marinas as others probably would't admire your taste whether it be Garage or the Ride of the Valkeries

 

[Magnum]

Yep, that's the one we've got - http://www.clarion-eu.com/uk/Marine_main_unit.556+M5bdc2d312ff.0.html . Not tried it yet though, but I think it's usefulness depends on what wind protection you have up there. It would have been useless on our P42.

 

[hlb]

It's not so much me. But the SHMBO keeps buying getto blasters for the fly bridge and they clatter around whilst trying there best to garrot me with all the wires from blaster to inverter, then to fag lighter.

No. Do not intend to wake the whole marina, less I get realy, realy pissed off!!

 

[whisper]

Surely it will be useful when you want to leave the raft at 6am. Don't think the genre of the music will matter at that time in the morning.

 

[rickp]

I think Haydn intends to use his klaxon bilge alarm for that purpose /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Rick

 

[boatone]

Now that I have cracked the TV antenna I am considering installing a full tannoy system so that everyone can experience the full depth and breadth of my Royal Marines Band CD's.......
Does anyone know where I can get one of those 4 Horn systems...?

 

[DAKA]

I strongly recommend against an in car quad sytem like my last boat had.
Why- oh dear I am sorry to all injured parties.

March 03- Mates round for a few beers to local, 2315 dark at... knots down 20ft wide canal with CD of Bond Themes playing at max with volume directed to upper helm speakers (well you had to be there to appriciate the ambiance)

Sept 03- Bembridge, few friends round for a quiet drink, when I went outside I found the volume still set at 90% to the upper helm, quiet inside the boat but every marina and anchorage we had been to all season must have been well ****** with wife's Shania Twain at
90 db.
/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

West Marine(USA) sell water Proof sets for sports boats.

 

[mjf]

Sony do a waterproof remote that talks to the main unit.

Problem is no good if your saloon radio etc is not a sony (and the remote is wired ie not wireless).

 

[ArthurWood]

I also recommend Clarion.

 

[DERF]

Oh Bollox..

mjf, I've just bought an Alpine head unit with Ipod interface.....(couldn't get the line in to work as suggested by jfm). Forgot that the remote in cockpit is for Sony head unit..... Arrrgh.

 

[hlb]

Sickening thing is, I got a superb new radio tape deck just as tapes went out of fashion. Superb music down stairs with four speakers. Trouble is these days, as fast as you update, yer out of fashion again!!

Might look in to the remote thingy though.

 

[hlb]

So can I walk into the local comet or dixons and buy this thingy, or the local swindlery for ££££££££?? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Nick_H]

If you mean the FM transmitter thing then no, you have to buy it online, this is the one I have.

web page

 

[hlb]

So. Not understanding this newfangled stuff. I pug this thingy into the luckily available cig lighter upstairs and it plays the radio/cd player downstairs with music from the pea pod thingy upstairs. So how do I get the music in the pea pod?? Do I need a special thingy wotsit downstairs?

 

[Nick_H]

How it works is this. You buy an ipod (cheapest direct from apple web site), and presumably already have a computer as you're reading this. You load the ipod software onto your computor, and then you can copy all your CD's (unless you have more than 15,000 of them) into your computor which transfers them into MP3 format. You can also download music directly to your computor or copy music from others, being careful to disregard the copyright notices in the process.

Then you plug your ipod into your computor and it magically copies all of your music onto the ipod, meaning you can leave all your cd's at home where they belong.

Finally plug the FM transmitter into the 12v car type socket and set it to a frequency (i find 106.5 best). Tune your radio to the same frequency and you're away. Sound quality is equivalent to your normal radio, but not as good as CD. The FM transmitter is apparently illegal in the UK, but then what isn't these days.