Where Do I Put This??

sailingdog · #1 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008

I recently got an Icom M504 VHF Radio. Along with it, I bought a hailer horn, which looks like this:

My question is, where on a sailboat should I mount this thing??

The reason I want to have the hailer horn mounted is for the automated fog signals the hailer can produce. However, the horn's kind of big and ugly...and I don't want to have it someplace the sheets can grab it, and I'm looking for suggestions on where to put it.

teshannon · #2 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008

Sail,
I have the same setup. I didn't want the ugly horn mounted permanetly when I only need it for fog so I have a small bracket mounted on the dodger frame and when I need the horn I bring it out and connect to the Icom with a long cable. When not in use it's stored in the boat.

Plumper · #3 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008

I would put it away and only plug it in if it is foggy. It will probably last years that way.

Plumper · #4 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008

Ooops, great minds.........

Giulietta · #5 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008

I would tell you where to put it, but Cam wil delete the post...

WTF do you need THAT on your boat??? How much more crap are you gonna bring to a 28 foot triple anorexic boat???

YOu sail 5 days a season...leave that crap at home, man..really

Fog you're affraid of?? Buy a air horn, weighs 3 ounces....and now they make them with sounds of Hoffalives whining!!!

sailingdog · #6 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008

Thanks Gui... I knew I could count on you and your FAT boat for support.

I have an air horn on the boat... Fog is very common on Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay.

Giulietta · #7 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008

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Originally Posted by sailingdog

Thanks Gui... I knew I could count on you and your FAT boat for support.

I have an air horn on the boat... Fog is very common on Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay.

I'm not kidding man...really..leave that in the garage....

I have been thinking here, and I've known you for a year and a half, and been reading all your posts, for real.

I am pretty sure, no...I am sure that now, as we speak, you have more electronics and weird stuff and stuff in general in your boat than I will ever have...on my boat that is twice the size.

I swear you do....

Lion35 · #8 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008

Here's a simple tried and true mounting technique:

bestfriend · #9 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008

WAIT A MINUTE! Sailingdog is asking US a question???????!!!!!!!!!

teshannon · #10 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008

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Originally Posted by bestfriend

WAIT A MINUTE! Sailingdog is asking US a question???????!!!!!!!!!

Give the man a break, he's trying to get to 20,000 this week.