Loud and Clear
My family’s boat, Have Another Day, has a stern docking camera with a good view of the swim platform and a built-in microphone. During docking it allows me to hear my wife, Laura, when she’s standing in our cockpit with a dockhand near the stern. Our dialogues used to go something like this:
DOCKHA ND TO LAURA: Do you want this line cleated off?
LAURA (looking at camera): Do you want the line cleated?
ME (in normal voice): Yes.
LAURA: Ben, do you want this line cleated off?
ME (in a louder—but still not shouting—voice): Yes.
LAURA (in a more insistent tone): BEN, do you want this line cleated off?”
ME (shouting): YES!
LAURA (in an
