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North times seven. When performance counts the choice is clear. Call your nearest North Sails representative. Sausalito 415-339-3000 San Rafael-Sail Care 415-453-2142 Channel Islands 805-984-8100 Marina Del Rey 310-827-8888 Long Beach 562-795-5488 Costa Mesa-Sail Care 949-645-4660 San Diego 619-224-2424 C A L I F O R N I A www.northsails.com Page 66 • Latitude 38 • October, 2009 COURTESY ISLAND TIME COURTESY ISLAND TIME LETTERS ⇑⇓YOU, TOO, CAN HAVE A 65-INCHER My wife Mary and I are currently moored at Avalon, and have just finished watching a movie on the 65-inch screen inside our 40-ft boat. It sounds crazy, but we'd like to let everyone know how easy it is to have an actual theater in one’s boat. Mary and I rented our north Orange County home out in October of last year and moved aboard our Island Packet 40 in Los Angeles Harbor. It's something t h a t w e ' d been looking forward to doing for many y e a r s , a n d the time was right. There were only a I scream, you scream, we all scream for a 65-inch screen — like the one rolled up here in the main salon of 'Island Time'. c o u p l e o f things that we missed from o u r s h o r e - based life: the hot tub and the big screen TV. I couldn’t really do much about the hot tub, but I figured we’d at least work on the TV. When I spoke with Mary about upgrading our tiny 15-inch flat panel television for something larger — say 20-22 inches — she asked me, "Why don’t you look at a projector?" Man, I love it when she says things like that! So, I embarked on the research mission from hell to find a projector we could use. Voila! I discovered the digital DVD projector system called Movietime from Optoma. Movietime is an “all in one” digital projector that has built-in speakers and a top-loading DVD player. It is a 'short throw' projector that is really meant to plop down on a coffee table, plug in, and project on a wall or screen. This thing can easily project a 100-inch or better high-quality picture on a wall. Being thrifty, I found a used one on Amazon.com for about half the $600-900 retail price. I placed the unit on the shelf above my starboard settee, and initially used a white sheet hung on the port side just to get an idea of how big a screen I would need. I found the projected image to be 64- 65 inches wide, and about 35 inches high. Af- The Optoma Movitime may look weird but it works great. ter a quick shop around on the internet, I was able to locate a couple of screen dealers with really reasonable prices. I ordered a manual 50x 67-inch screen for less than $100. I mounted the screen with quick-release hooks to two padeyes located above and to either side of the port settee. With the screen up, you have to look twice to even notice that it is there, because the white housing blends in with the background. Thanks to the quick release hooks, I can take it down in about five seconds and stow it in the aft stateroom.
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