We decided that the marine stereo solution wasn't great for Elise. 1) it is a mess of wires from the battery and for the speakers since we dont' want it permanently installed (it is a lot of weight) - 2) we very rarely use CDs and never the radio (we don't have an FM/AM antenna on the boat). Most of the time, it will be iPod packed music for long distance races, for a day working at the boat, or for a cruising evening. If there is too much wind, we are unlikely to have music on deck anyway.
This little guy is light, works with iPod, takes batteries (and a charger too) for 20 hours worth of music on a set of batteries at full blast. It offer 20W worth of power, more than my regular PC speakers, can be up on deck or down below, can be tied to anything or just hang down a line with a couple of carabinos.
We can also get streaming FM through a smartphone which will work with this little device, should we want to. The only thing that it will not have is CD capabilities. We can get all of our CDs into a couple of iPods though, so shouldn't be an issue!
In other words, pretty cool for our use of music on Elise...
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