TOPIC: Cool New Horn

My boat doesn't have a horn, so I decided to search for a period piece. At first I thought about a small trumpet style one, but while salvaging through my local marine mechanics boat lot a couple of weeks ago, I found this. It's an Attwood chrome electric horn. I can't believe how heavy this small horn is. The horn workings are cast into both of the top and the bottom of the chrome housing. It's fairly small too. It's more befitting of that 70's look, but isn't plastic like that Glastron version found on the CV's. It sounds really great. It only cost me $10 too. I have to admit, I was very hesitant to drill holes in my nice looking bow and mess up the original lines and clean look.

I got out to the lake for the first time with it today to try it out.

Very Unique!! I like it!... and 10 bucks...cant beat the deal!

that is a cool horn and a nice boat too.i never saw a horn like it.i too had to replace the horns on the custom craft sunray,i bought another set from ebay and after polishing and painting them this how they turned out,the 1st pic are the horns that were on the boat originaly,the next are the ones i restored,by the way what is your boat it looks good,john

john-gibson wrote:

that is a cool horn and a nice boat too.i never saw a horn like it.i too had to replace the horns on the custom craft sunray,i bought another set from ebay and after polishing and painting them this how they turned out,the 1st pic are the horns that were on the boat originaly,the next are the ones i restored,by the way what is your boat it looks good,john

Thanks for the compliments.

You did a really nice restoration job with that dual trumpet air horn. Looks great.

The boat is a 14' 1970 Glastron V-142 SkiFLite with a 1965 Merc 500.

Nice score! It really looks good on that boat.

Same horn as I have on the Aqua Ray. Mine works off the trim ring on the wheel Very cool score. Good job.

thetudor wrote:

Same horn as I have on the Aqua Ray. Mine works off the trim ring on the wheel Very cool score. Good job.

Thanks for the info and answering my E-Mail.

Nice work John!!

Nice horn Aqua. The boat is great, dunno if I could have drilled the holes in such a boat.

DelRay wrote:

Nice horn Aqua. The boat is great, dunno if I could have drilled the holes in such a boat.

I debated it for several days. I wasn't sure if I wanted to disrupt the clean look and lines of the bow. I closed my eyes, as I plunged the drill bit into gelcoat. After seeing how it looked up at the lake, I feel pretty good about my decision. This boat also came with no gauges, so I added a period Aquameter speedometer and tach that I also salvaged. They look new and only cost me $15 for the pair, plus one spare speedo. (three gauges-$15)

You made the right decision, IMHO, bud, she looks great!