Please help this clueless wife buy boat speakers for husband

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Sbrininger

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We have an Aloha tri-tune pontoon with an upper deck. We live on a river and often take our kids and friends to sandbars on the weekends. Usually the women tend to sit on the boat and try to visit, but my husband blasts the stereo so they can listen to music, which makes it really loud for those of us on the boat considering the fact that the speakers are basically under our seats by our feet. He commented this weekend that he needs to look into outward-facing speakers that he can use while on the sandbar so it is not so loud for those of us on the boat. His birthday is coming up and I would love to surprise him but know nothing about speakers. Are there any mountable speakers that are wireless, waterproof and use bluetooth that could work? I want to find something that does not require professional installation. We keep our boat in the water at our dock behind our house and the river has dropped significantly so there's a good chance that we may not be able to get it out to take to a shop to install something. We tend to pull straight onto sandbars so the speakers would need to be on the front of the boat or possibly the upper deck? We have a covered dock so the boat is mostly protected from weather. Can anybody help me or direct me to a boating company or store I can call who might have some ideas? Thanks!

ETA: We do not need anything ridiculously loud or with bass that makes the neighborhood shake or anything. We just need something that can project the music outward that is separate from the boat stereo system.
 
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Do you have a tower on the boat or a cover where speakers can be mounted?

As far as wireless, Bluetooth and mountable, I doubt you'll find all 3. Speakers need power from somewhere.

Wakeboard tower speakers are the idea of what you are looking for. Self contained other than power and mountable.

You might have to do a more complete install than just speakers. Most head units cannot push tower speakers due to their low power.

On our boat, we have 3 zones. Cockpit/boat speakers are one zone. Tower speakers are a second zone. And the subwoofer is the 3rd zone. Each zone runs off its own amp and can be turned off with the push of a button. When swimming at anchor, the cockpit speakers are off and the tower speakers provide sound to swimmers.

You could always buy speakers and then let your husband add the other components. I used kicker tower speakers because they were decent quality and reasonable price. Wetsounds makes really nice stuff, but they are significantly more expensive and probably more than you need. Kicker speakers can be bought on eBay or amazon to save some money.

On amps, if your husband wants to add one. Go with a class d amp. Smaller, more efficient and less heat to worry about.
 
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Ear buds (wireless or not) are perfect solution here for hubby esp if you don't want to bother/impede on any neighbors or any other's convo's that are in the general serenity that is being shared by all...........The ladies can sit in the boat in almost perfect silence, talk to each other at a nice reasonable level not having to yell or even having to compete with/over a self imposed noise source, wherever its emanating/directed from or to.

You'll hear nature (or each other) at its finest and if perhaps you or others have children and they're playing in the water, it'll be safer if you can hear the children esp if their younger and need help. Hubby can turn his stuff up to 120db and go to the moon whilst everyone else can enjoy their own, which ever that might be, nature, each other convo's or just making sure the kids are staying safe if they're in the water or not......Just a crazy thought perhaps.
 
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Silverbullet555

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As for speakers, I have seen some pontoons with patio type speakers. They can mount to flat surfaces or square tube rails. They usually don't take too much power to drive.
 
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