If they were on headphones it wouldn't be that bad. I was on a plane trip the other day where the plane had XM radio piped into headset jacks in the seats and it was a really nice touch. Made the trip a little more enjoyable. Same thing could be applied to boats... with some sorta preprogrammed, predownloaded music options available... or a IPOD per sailor with a huge downloadable database on board for the sailors to DL songs from. As the brits... they probably know what works.
