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I seem to remember asking for a decent waah horn on this current boat, but the thing failed after a short time as did the chromy one on the previous boat, so i continued to use manual prarp prarp handheld air horns at 6ish quid a go from the boat shows. Mind you, the manufactureers did fit some other stuff i didn't ask for at all, including a 2hp compressor which um seems a bit excessive for blowing up a towable banana, or er possibly blowing dust off the engine.
Final warranty list came around so heyho let's put it down that the horn doesn't work. On the wiring diagram it seems to share the same relay switch as the compressor as it is says compressor/horn, i told the little man came round. He took apart a few junction boxy bits for a look, then goes down in engineroom for a fiddle about, eventually asking me to try the horn - and he's fixed it! Hurah, and about time too, but i bet it will fail again cos it always does. So this time I insisted he showed me what's what, and he too seems keen to show how he has fixed the infernal thing. He turns on the compressor on to get about 2 bar in the tank, then opens a valve and ahem er that's what powers the horn. Sheesh! It seems that several hundred quids worth of air compressor is there merely to power the horn. Cripes. Mind you it is quite good and you can adjust the pressure and make it moo and waah very loudly up and down annoyingly.
So, with partially busted anchor (another story) in Monaco I used the horn when reversing across the fairway. I think I was fairly obviously reversing, but another smaller boat appeared and sounded his horn once quietly to ahem Oi indicate his presence as he wanted to sneak up the channel behind me. Oh no you don't matey - three times loudly WOOOOM WOOOOM WOOOM very massive-shippishly such that the other boat stopped dead, got all confused and changed helmpeople and it was clear that none of them had much of sound signals, hehehe. The owner and wife clearly felt that I had been using the horn for not much reason as with a car. I would like to say that i stared at them silently through designer sunglassess as they eventually started to move again past out bows, but I am afraid I couldn't resist shouting down attem that three hoots means engines in reverse, you wassocks, look it up in a book, or get a proper skipper. Thus, already hopelessly out-horned and now conclusively out-boatiefied, the other boat continued into the marina in embarassed stony-faced silence, their sunny afternoon afloat rather spoiled by a smartarse git with a fully-charged massive air horn. Which i suppose must be the primary aim of a massive air horn in the first place.
Final warranty list came around so heyho let's put it down that the horn doesn't work. On the wiring diagram it seems to share the same relay switch as the compressor as it is says compressor/horn, i told the little man came round. He took apart a few junction boxy bits for a look, then goes down in engineroom for a fiddle about, eventually asking me to try the horn - and he's fixed it! Hurah, and about time too, but i bet it will fail again cos it always does. So this time I insisted he showed me what's what, and he too seems keen to show how he has fixed the infernal thing. He turns on the compressor on to get about 2 bar in the tank, then opens a valve and ahem er that's what powers the horn. Sheesh! It seems that several hundred quids worth of air compressor is there merely to power the horn. Cripes. Mind you it is quite good and you can adjust the pressure and make it moo and waah very loudly up and down annoyingly.
So, with partially busted anchor (another story) in Monaco I used the horn when reversing across the fairway. I think I was fairly obviously reversing, but another smaller boat appeared and sounded his horn once quietly to ahem Oi indicate his presence as he wanted to sneak up the channel behind me. Oh no you don't matey - three times loudly WOOOOM WOOOOM WOOOM very massive-shippishly such that the other boat stopped dead, got all confused and changed helmpeople and it was clear that none of them had much of sound signals, hehehe. The owner and wife clearly felt that I had been using the horn for not much reason as with a car. I would like to say that i stared at them silently through designer sunglassess as they eventually started to move again past out bows, but I am afraid I couldn't resist shouting down attem that three hoots means engines in reverse, you wassocks, look it up in a book, or get a proper skipper. Thus, already hopelessly out-horned and now conclusively out-boatiefied, the other boat continued into the marina in embarassed stony-faced silence, their sunny afternoon afloat rather spoiled by a smartarse git with a fully-charged massive air horn. Which i suppose must be the primary aim of a massive air horn in the first place.
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