XM 40 Deep Tracks.
Or borrow my wife's Sirius and dig Sirius 97, Vacation - all island music and margaritaville ...
What music do you sail to?
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Dave X2000 Jac
- Chief Steward
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- Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Edmund Fitzgerald
Again, it's a small world, group. I lost an old neighbor when the Fitzgerald went down. I appreciate what Gordon Lightfoot did with that song. I even took a date to one of his concerts after that song made it big. The stage was surreal and I got a bit spooked. (Needless to say, she thought I was nuts and asked me to lose her phone number.) But back to the beginning ......
During the 1950's and 1960's, I lived on Elk Drive, Saybrook (Ashtabula), Ohio. At the other end of Elk Drive, 12 houses north of me and across the street from the Lake Erie shore and the Elks 217 Shore Club, lived Paul Riipa and his family. Paul's big brother, Neal, was the same age as me. We played Kick-the-Can, Ball Tag, and baseball. That kid, Paul, was as quick as lightning and could through fastball past all of the bigger kids in the neighborhood. In Little League, he would strike out 12-13 batters in a typical 6 inning game. He was drafted by a major league baseball team straight out of high school - a rarity in our little corner of Ohio. That winter the Fitzgerald went down was a couple of years after I had graduated from college and had moved out of town, so I might not have all of the details correct, ....but as I understand it: Paul was looking for a way to earn some money in the winter while waiting for AA or AAA ball to start up again in the spring. He signed on as a deckhand just like other friends of ours had done for years. My own brother was a boiler "wiper" in the belly of a similar ore boat one summer between his senior year of high school and his first year at Cornell. Paul Riipa was just another young man looking to earn a few bucks. We lost a tough kid and a phenomenal athlete. RIP Paul Riipa.
FYI,
Dave "Jac"
During the 1950's and 1960's, I lived on Elk Drive, Saybrook (Ashtabula), Ohio. At the other end of Elk Drive, 12 houses north of me and across the street from the Lake Erie shore and the Elks 217 Shore Club, lived Paul Riipa and his family. Paul's big brother, Neal, was the same age as me. We played Kick-the-Can, Ball Tag, and baseball. That kid, Paul, was as quick as lightning and could through fastball past all of the bigger kids in the neighborhood. In Little League, he would strike out 12-13 batters in a typical 6 inning game. He was drafted by a major league baseball team straight out of high school - a rarity in our little corner of Ohio. That winter the Fitzgerald went down was a couple of years after I had graduated from college and had moved out of town, so I might not have all of the details correct, ....but as I understand it: Paul was looking for a way to earn some money in the winter while waiting for AA or AAA ball to start up again in the spring. He signed on as a deckhand just like other friends of ours had done for years. My own brother was a boiler "wiper" in the belly of a similar ore boat one summer between his senior year of high school and his first year at Cornell. Paul Riipa was just another young man looking to earn a few bucks. We lost a tough kid and a phenomenal athlete. RIP Paul Riipa.
FYI,
Dave "Jac"
I've been an iPod man many, many months now (lost one in the water and realized I've made myself "iPod dependent"---can't live without them); the beauty of not having to take any CD's in my boat is wonderful. I have a Phillips boom box with aux in connections. My boat is filled with the strains of Buffet (a MUST), Eagles, the Texas equivalent of Buffet - Robert Earl Keen, Nancy Griffith (another Texas favorite), Lyle Lovett, and assorted others. Nothing beats a casual run back to the marina in late evening when the air gets "soft", stretching out in one of the cockpit seats, back braced on two boat cushions against the stern rail, cold beer in hand, steering with my foot to the strains of Buffet. Lordie! As my Uncle George used to say as we were sailing in his boat in the Keys, "Wonder what the poor folks are doing?"
We have just returned from 9 days motoring and sailing from Downtown Ottawa to Kingston on the Rideau Canal. When I began this thread I had numerous playlists that I had omitted including all of Great Big Sea (excellent) although Helmethead is in my hockey playlist, Neil Young, Gord Lightfoot and Ian Tamblyn playlists. With around 3000 songs I am now "ipod dependent" in my car with the ifinder and on Jedaro.
I had numerous mention of Jimmy Buffet and although I had a few I have since increased my playlist. In Canada we pay an extra tax on CD's, videocassettes, cassettes and mp3 players which goes to pay artists royalties for copying so as we live in Ottawa, I can go online to the Ottawa Public Library, peruse their '000s of CD's and order the ones that I want to be delivered to the neighbourhood library and I can copy them onto my computer and then download to my ipod thereby building up a collection at negligable cost. I don't know whether or not copywrite laws in the US permit this but it is a way of getting older music especially songs that you already have on records.
Thanks for your contributions. Now we are back to Kingston for another 10 days of sailing in the 1000 Islands and Lake Ontario.
Mike Purdy
Jedaro
I had numerous mention of Jimmy Buffet and although I had a few I have since increased my playlist. In Canada we pay an extra tax on CD's, videocassettes, cassettes and mp3 players which goes to pay artists royalties for copying so as we live in Ottawa, I can go online to the Ottawa Public Library, peruse their '000s of CD's and order the ones that I want to be delivered to the neighbourhood library and I can copy them onto my computer and then download to my ipod thereby building up a collection at negligable cost. I don't know whether or not copywrite laws in the US permit this but it is a way of getting older music especially songs that you already have on records.
Thanks for your contributions. Now we are back to Kingston for another 10 days of sailing in the 1000 Islands and Lake Ontario.
Mike Purdy
Jedaro
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Timm Miller
- First Officer
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Tunes
Sony Xplode cd/mp3....600 watt 4 channel amp...JBL speakers in cabin and cockpit.......Bazooka Subwoofer in aft cabin.
Crystal Method, Dave Mathews.......etc.
Crystal Method, Dave Mathews.......etc.
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Rich Plumb
- Engineer
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- Sailboat: Venture 25
- Location: Covington WA
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k9piper
- Deckhand
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- Location: Lower Hudson River Valley N.Y.
Music
Le me see now,
You all sail by some fine music and I share in what most listen to. I have two Celtic bands that I float with and that is Wolfstone ( a lot of Great Highland bagpipe rock) and Runrig (folk rock) both of Scotland. It's an awesome listen if you are into Celtic rock tunes.
Turn it up loud a cool brew and a wee dram of the other ans a nice wind...ah, maybe that's what God had in mind for life before the afterlife!
K9piper
You all sail by some fine music and I share in what most listen to. I have two Celtic bands that I float with and that is Wolfstone ( a lot of Great Highland bagpipe rock) and Runrig (folk rock) both of Scotland. It's an awesome listen if you are into Celtic rock tunes.
Turn it up loud a cool brew and a wee dram of the other ans a nice wind...ah, maybe that's what God had in mind for life before the afterlife!
K9piper