What music do you sail to?

[Jedaro]

As you may have seen in the mods page, my kids gave me an ipod for Christmas so that I could have quality music while on Jedaro. We wanted to cut down on the CD's we were carrying. With the Lansing speakers that I can move around to listen to quality music in the cabin or cockpit. We now use them in the ski chalet, in my workroom or any other room in the house as well as the itrip so that I can ipod with my stereo system at home or in the car. It has changed the way we listen to music. I have now almost 2800 songs on the ipod including some soft listening playlists from my adult children and some I didnt know I had. As well the ibook can be used for watching videos on the sailboat if we are going on long trips.

Skiing is now over, we still have ice on our lake so it will be a few days before we can launch Jedaro and get ready for our June sailing trip to Georgian Bay. This morning it is close to 0 out and pouring rain so mountain biking is out so: I am now beginning to set up sailing playlists and would be interested in finding out what music you tend to sail to or remind you of sailing to various destinations. To start this thread I have loaded Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Seven Island Suite, Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle, (Gord Lightfoot), Sloop John B. (Beach Boys), LIsle Bonita (Madonna), Theme from Titanic (whoever), Good Vibrations, Kokomo (Beach Boys), Breakfast in hull (Sade Cleaves) about Sandy Grey Falls on Georgian Bay, Sailing to Philadelphia (Mark Knophler).

Probably by the time you have read this far some songs come to mind to make you dream of sailing-what are they and could you share them?

Mike Purdy
Jedaro

[Jeff S]

I have a small MP3 player as well with 1GB of memory that holds well over 200 songs. It is great and I take it with me on military deployments with small headphones. I would like a way to connect it to my vehicle or boat stereo though. I have a clarion marine stereo with 4 speakers on the boat (2 cockpit, 2 cabin) and a 6 disc CD changer, as well as a remote control on the pedestal. It is a nice setup, but connecting the MP3 player through it would be great. Has anyone done this? It doesn't have a tape player (CD only) so a cord into the tape player type thing wouldn't work. The other thing I thought of is satellite radio (XM or Sirius), it is the antenna I don't like.

For music I like Son of a son of a sailor (Jimmy Buffet) -many Jimmy Buffett songs for that matter. I like to listen Crosby, Stills and Nash songs in general, Gordon Lightfoot is good, although the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald wouldn't sit well with the Admiral while sailing. Styx- Come Sail Away is another great song. There is a previous thread out there located HERE.

Jeff S

[Rich Smith]

My wife and I took a week to sail up in Georgian Bay...the wind was high and the waves were large all week. I had stocked my notebook with charts and about 400 songs for the trip...I had the Media Player set to random but I have to tell you it was very disconcerting when it selected "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" as the first song about 5 times throughout that trip

[baldbaby2000]

We installed a CD player that is MP3 compatible. When I get time to figure out how to do it, I want to put a bunch of our CDs in MP3 format on CD. The advantage is that a lot more music can fit on a CD.

For music: Anything but hip hop and rap. New age is always relaxing such as Andreas Vollenweider and Lori Line. Also we like soundtracks like Jurassic Park and Sea Bisket (I think the latter makes the boat faster). I do like Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald but I kind of scared to put that in our boat collection.

[baldbaby2000]

Yanni, very nice music Barb!

[Russell]

Go directly to iTunes music store and download GREAT BIG SEA this band has it all. They are from St.John's(CAN) They sing traditional sailing songs with a new upto date sound to them (they also go well with a little capt.Morgan's). You will not be disapointed with anything you download from them. Here are a few that I recommend to download to begin with.

Excrusion around the bay
A Boat like Gideon Brown
The fishermans lament
Donkey Riding
Going up
General Taylor
Ordinary day
Lukey

I Have more than 70 songs from this band alone.

If you feel in the pirate mood I would download the "Pirates of Caribbean" soundtrack.

[Frank & Meg]

Jeff F from the TSBB posted some sailing songs he recorded w/some friends HERE
"Morning we sail" is pretty good and the site as a whole is a lot of fun. Check it out...

[rick(Snow Goose)]

Jedaro, try

Neil Young's - Captain Kennedy, Sail Away and Through My Sails.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's - Sanibel, Lee shore and Wooden Ships

Christopher Cross - Sailing

Russel

If you like Great Big Sea try finding a group called Figgy Duff. They are also a Newfoundland band that is a little more traditional. By the way the guys from Great Big Sea Live in my neigbourhood and when I see them they will get a chuckle over the fact that they were mentioned on this forum.

[macsailor]

Im an old "folky" from way back, but you cant beat the good old stuff from the 50's 60;s 70' whatn the wind freshens.kinda keeps the heart pumpin. For quiet times tend to go back to my folk music.Lightfoot, Stan Rogers,and the such

[Scott]

We have a ruggedized water resistant Boombox. It is Mp3 compatable and we run a plug from a cigarette lighter plug to the DC in. No need for batteries. It has velcro on each of the four legs and we band the handle to the grab handle on the hatch.

You can put 160 Mp3's on a disk and 1-1-1/2 disks last all day!!

[baldbaby2000]

You can put 160 Mp3's on a disk and 1-1-1/2 disks last all day!!

Scott,

Do you burn your MP3 CDs on a PC? What program do you use to burn them?

BB

[Jeff S]

My 6 disc changer plays mp3s, plus the stereo has a cd player itself so that is 7 CD's, which is plenty for most trips. I should burn more of my music to CD's so I can bring them aboard.

Slamjammer- I too have the Sandisk 1GB MP3 player/FM tuner- great piece of gear, esp. for the price. I think though I will use the boat's built in stereo system as I have a remote at the pedestal with speakers in the cabin and cockpit that makes it easy to control.

Jeff S

[Bill at BOATS 4 SAIL]

When I lived in Salt Lake City I hung out at Norman's Tavern. They had a band that played there, made up of orthopedic surgeons that specialized in ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) arthroscopies. The name of the band was Norman's Tavern ACL Choir, or something like that. They played some real salty music.

[Scott]

Do you burn your MP3 CDs on a PC? What program do you use to burn them?

Yes we burn them on a laptop. We use Roxio Burner "Classic". Its really easy. You just need to make sure you burn the Mp3's as Data. If you burn it as a "Music CD" it will convert to a CDA format and only fit 12 - 16 songs.



This is the plug, it had begun to give us problems due to the ground side not holding tight to the jack. I pulled it apart to repair and found 2 wasps nests on the speakers.





I guess wasps like


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