We had some kayaker friends in the seventies who once came upon the floating debris field of a yacht capsize in Great Egg Harbor, NJ. ?
The yachters had abandoned the scene, so our friends picked and chose what they could stack on their kayaks. ?One thing was about a 12”-screen Panasonic B&W TV. (TV’s being built of CRT’s in those days, it floated very well.)
Since it had spent time in sea water, they brought it home and threw it in the swimming pool overnight to rinse out. ?Then let it dry a few days. ?It was fine, except the paper speaker cone had deformed, so no sound. ?They named it Moses.
Eventually it was handed down through a string of friends to me. ?I opened it up and soldered some wires to the speaker terminals and installed a phone jack in the housing so I could plug in an external speaker.
That was my TV for about ten years.
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Our friend capsized while out sailing and listening to tunes on his waterproof bluetooth speaker. He sailed around gathering stuff in 20+ knot winds and choppy waves, figured the speaker was gone but at one point he heard the bluetooth connecting and sailed that direction. Found the speaker!
Air Force Colonel, Flight Surgeon. I think he gets just as big of a kick out of the Sunfish as he does the warbirds.
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