Do you blow your horn/whistle as required?

[beamie]

Like some of you have said. No I really don't use the horn unless I hear someone off in the distance and want to get thier attention. Idiots running at cruising speed in the fog aren't gonna hear your horn anyway.

The fogmate is a good product. I know a guy who works for the place that designed them locally hear in mass.

Ships always use the whistle in the fog. Sometimes they don't bother when thousands of miles offshore and not in a busy traffic lane and nothing on radar. when in a channel maneavering they mostly don't bother with whistle for they have talked to the other ship on the VHF already.

It really all depends where you are. If your going thru Woods Hole in the fog, you bet. If there really is no traffic around, no...

Best to just anchor up near a fishing hole tight to shore and chunk for a while till it lifts even with radar, sonar and electric toothbrushes........