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Favorite Cruising Music?

11K views 52 replies 48 participants last post by  MnLandLoc 
#1 ·
OK - CSN&Y's "Southern Cross" is pretty good and Chris Cross' "Sailing" is a no-brainer (if you like him). And then there's Bob Marley in general and while cruising the islands it's a "must". I like everthing from Heavy Metal (though probably not while cruising) to Mozart, so I'm probably weird.

What music do you all like to listen to when cruising? Yeah, I know that on a watch you a) don't want to interfere with people's sleep and b) don't want to block out important sounds that warrant your attention, but on a nice day with good visibility, what "does it" for you?:)
 
#2 ·
I love music, but when I am sailing I like to hear the water and wind.

I have friends that bring big boom boxes on and want to play underway, but for some reason that doesn't work for me. At anchor or the dock that's fine, but wind and water flow is the best music there is to me.
 
#49 ·
What ever happened to this lunatic?
You guys didn't scare him off did you?
Say something nasty about how he smells?
Make fun of his C-30?
Or how he almost got run over by a container ship?
Did the mod's finally have enough of his wackiness?

Hog, where are you?
 
#4 ·
I have iPod playlists for various stages (and moods) of a trip:

Waking Up Easing into the day with a cup of tea/coffee in the cockpit. Classical and instrumental music

Underway Upbeat, excited that the motor is off. Reggae (there's more out there than just Marley, good as he is :) ), some classical, classic rock, sea shanties, trop rock, etc.

At Anchor Relaxing with beer/wine and good food. Blues, traditional jazz (none of that so-called "smooth" jazz nonsense), standards, acoustic singer-songwriter tunes

However, we have yet to listen to any of the music that I spend time collecting actually on the boat. We like to hear the burble underway, or the near-silence at anchor. We turned on the radio only once at anchor and that was to listen to a Phillies game.

Mostly I play my playlists while puttering around the house.

Maybe I should change the playlist titles to:

Cleaning (or Moving Stuff Around) the Garage
Cleaning (or Moving Stuff Around) the House
Gardening
 
#5 · (Edited)
Someone posted on a similar thread Kenny Chesney's album Be As You Are. I downloaded and it has become my favorite sailing album. A number of the songs have sailing references and many of the songs have refereneces to the Virgin Islands. My favorite lyric from one of the songs:

French kissing life square in the mouth sailing out on the sea.
 
#6 ·
When winds are big and the boat is really moving along, my kids love to put on the theme song from Pirates of the Caribbean.
 
#9 ·
Great and HILARIOUS responses. I agree - and especially since I'm a newbie - I may never get used to the beautiful sounds created by the boat and/or nature. When I see people walking along the beach wearing headphones with roaring waves in the background, I want to ask them if they are listening to the sounds of traffic or airport noise! Still, the first time I THINK I have the sails trimmed just right in a 15 knot wind, I WILL be tempted to play something.

Oh, and agreed about Chris Cross' "Sailing". Didn't the Geneva Convention ban that song from being played to torture prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison and elsewhere?
 
#10 · (Edited)
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Al Stewart - Life In Dark Water
Al Stewart - Time Passages
Enya, (anything)
Chicago - Wishing You Were Here
Hoku - Perfect Day (Legally Blond theme)
Jimmy Buffet (anything)
Kenny G
Van Morrison
Bachata style Latin music
and a crap load more :)
 
#11 ·
sailing tunes

CSN,Greatful Dead,Buffet,The Left Banke,Rod Stewart,CC,Rush,The Byrds,DuranDuran,Beatles,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,OMG way too much great music in this world sorry all cant list em all ill wear my keyboard out.LMAO its all good folks,least we forget also how sweet mother natures sounds are. cheers from a rat looking for the right wharf
 
#12 ·
Sibelius--Karelia Suite, Intermezzo. He must have been on a sailboat with a grin on his face when he composed it.
Mendelsohn's Hebrides Overture is nice, too, but more for overcast days and big swells.
Whatever you play, just keep it on your own boat. I'm with Ninefingers--I'll lob flares if I have to listen to some bozo's radio blasting anything--even the above. Not that I'm unfriendly or anything...
JV
 
#13 ·
I'm with pamlicotravellor on this one. I will not play music while sailing...I want to hear what's going on in, on and around the boat. At anchor it depends on my mood and who I am with. Anything from Marley to Dead to STP or RHCP or Cracker or Sublime or Willie Nelson, Allison Krauss, Wilco, Dwight Yoakam... just no Jimmy Buffet on my boat please.
 
#15 ·
Well we have enough ipod music to last almost a year if run 24/7. So usually I put it on shuffle and turn it off when I am sick of it.

However, at times I need ceredwen type stuff - classical - Pink Floyd - new stuff. All depends on the mood I am in. Sometimes it has to be loud until the water about the boat vibrate! Sometimes it has to be mellow.
 
#20 ·
My favorite sailing music is Def Lepard's Hysteria album. I know it's an odd choice, but the best day I have ever had sailing that happened to be the CD I was listening to. It was one of those day's where the weather was perfect, the wind speed/direction, temperature, everything. It was even a day at the beginning of the season where just being out there where just getting to be out there was exciting I chose that album randomly when I put it in, but now every time I listen to it I think of that day.
 
#21 ·
Jazz on the first lag, (nice and quiet so you can hear the horns and focus on sails), Something clasic rock on the second lag to get the boat goin',,then tropical Bob Marley on the rest of the voyage(race), followed by silence for an hour or so to settle the boat down a bit,,,,,yaaaaa sailin!!!!!!!!!!!:D:D
 
#26 ·
i need music when i'm sailing it keeps me focused if not my mind wonders and i stop paying attention to what i'm doing. cruising i try to keep it rock, hip hop, stuff like that but only clam music. when i want to go faster i get turn the heavier music then start hiking.
 
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