Your Attention Please!

[system 4-50]

Has anybody got a megaphone on board for communicating with the public?

 

 

I'm single handing & it could be useful to shout "Gerroff the gate arm, it's not a park bench!" from below the lock,

[OldGoldy]

Has anybody got a megaphone on board for communicating with the public?

 

 

I'm single handing & it could be useful to shout "Gerroff the gate arm, it's not a park bench!" from below the lock,

 

 

Do you use CB? There's sometimes a PA outlet for a horn speaker, but IMHO unless you're quietly spoken, loud voices DO travel over the water, so have you tried that as you approach? If they don't hear/move, you would be surprised how quickly they DO move if you nudge the gate

[sheriff]

oh yes,I have a MEGAPHONES,they do come in handy some times.hid in the bushes once and a boat came pass.."slow down (boat name etc)".childish but fun

[cotswoldsman]

Has anybody got a megaphone on board for communicating with the public?

 

 

I'm single handing & it could be useful to shout "Gerroff the gate arm, it's not a park bench!" from below the lock,

 

I find they get off as you hit the gate to open it.

[soldthehouse]

A catapult is more :Ppersuasive

[OldGoldy]

A catapult is more :Ppersuasive

 

Guaranteed to open a cell door rather than clear a lock gate

[Black Ibis]

We have one, mainly for communicating with recalcitrant rowers!

[Grace and Favour]

A catapult is more :Ppersuasive

 

This is even better:

 

 

 

[system 4-50]

They seem quite cheap for the little ones, I might give it a try just for the fun of it.

[bizzard]

A referee's whistle is useful,you can start and stop fishing matches at will with them too

[JerryP]

have you thought about recycling ?,and using one of the many traffic cones that seem to find their way into canals as a megaphone

[bizzard]

have you thought about recycling ?,and using one of the many traffic cones that seem to find their way into canals as a megaphone

I made one years ago.It has a Ford Transit rear door handle for a handle and you need to carve the small end with a Stanley knife to suite your ''embrauecher''''Gob''.they work very well, excuse the spellling.

 

Also if you glue a Kazoo in the small end and blow it converts it into a foghorn.

My favorite use for the cone megaphone is to reinact Captain Smith of the Titanic, last instructions bellowed through his megaphone to the passengers from his bridge window.

ABANDON SHIP!!Go to your lifeboats,let there be no panic and god bless you all.

Edited March 24, 2012 by bizzard

[soldthehouse]

They seem quite cheap for the little ones, I might give it a try just for the fun of it.

A small one can be quickly hidden and is virtually silent in operation, thus can be quickly stowed and combined with a nonchalant expression and anyone could have been responsible for the offending bruise

Edited March 24, 2012 by soldthehouse

[Grace and Favour]

They seem quite cheap for the little ones, I might give it a try just for the fun of it.

 

You can get medium sized launchers too:

 

[ditchcrawler]

I find they get off as you hit the gate to open it.

As Steve Hayward found out when someone drew the top paddles on him. Luckily there were no serious injuries.

[steven wilkinson]

I thought the preferred option was to attract their attention with a paintball gun

[i love my narrowboat]

As my Joe will confirm, my fish wife whistle of two fingers in the gob usually attracts there attention :-)

[Barry]

You're not the only one who can do that

 

Wriggley can pierce eardrums

[Grace and Favour]

You're not the only one who can do that

 

Wriggley can pierce eardrums

 

And I thought they were earwigs that did that (?)

[wrigglefingers]

You're not the only one who can do that

 

Wriggley can pierce eardrums

 

You're just jealous: my whistle is a thing of sonorous beauty. I'll demonstrate next week.

[Barry]

Well can I be a boat + lock length away when you do it please?

 

Oh and sonorous is not the word - the shriek of a frantic banshee is more like it