capnsensible
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Blue ensign?
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maxi77
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Not entirely true. Most blue ensign warrants are for a defaced version, but there are a very few clubs that are also allowed to fly a non-defaced blue ensign - The Royal Thames is a good example.
If you are flying a blue ensign then you also have to fly the qualifying club burgee, and the RNSA one is quite distinctive.
I am proud of my military service, and thus fly my blue ensign (with RNSA burgee) with pride.
Which is quitetrue but I was replying to a post about any ex-service person being able to fly a blue, and in that context my statement is correct.
As a wearer on an RNSA blue as well I am quite aware that RNSA is not unique in flying the undefaced blue.
Please pay attention at the back
I am equally proud of my service and to imply otherwise is unkind!
chinita
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Royal Engineers Yacht Club for one; which, as a Gunner, pisses me off big time.
Nostrodamus
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There is of course many blue ensigns being flown by those without permission... just because it looks "nice".
lenseman
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and others Blue Ensigns which are allowed but the burgee is incorrectly hoisted, very common.
Koeketiene
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PeterR
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There is a yacht on the Orwell flying an undefaced RAF ensign. Nobody on their own yacht has permission to do that, not even the Chief of the Air Staff.
maxi77
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Nice mess though in Chatham, stayed there when they were rebuilding the Chatham Barracks Wardroom, just before they closed the place. Also they helped me out when I ran the trials base in Kyle
emandvee44
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Blue Ensign
I think the flag suppliers got the colour match about right
And yes, we always fly the club burgee at the same time - Rule 14, I think.
I think the flag suppliers got the colour match about right
And yes, we always fly the club burgee at the same time - Rule 14, I think.
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A1Sailor
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I do hope I didn't get reported when this happened a couple of weeks back:
Before you all LYAO or RAFL it was a deliberate grounding for some cleaning - showing sound seamanship; and before Professor NitPick starts, the yacht being less than 12m I didn't display any daymarks. I didn't have the balls!
Starboard crosstree is acceptable for the burgee if the masthead is crowded. I'll maybe see if I can get a bigger ensign
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RestlessL
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and others Blue Ensigns which are allowed but the burgee is incorrectly hoisted, very common.
Oh dear ! You wil be reminding us next that we re not permitted to hoist more than one burgee !
A1Sailor
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But we are - as long as the total length of the burgees doesn't exceed the halyard length!
Always irritates folk to see a burgee they can't identify (RNSA) flown above that of a local club.
RestlessL
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But we are - as long as the total length of the burgees doesn't exceed the halyard length!
Always irritates folk to see a burgee they can't identify (RNSA) flown above that of a local club.
RNSA allows it, RYA expressly forbids the practice. Take your pick !
BelleSerene
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I'm tired of all this nonsense.
One wears an ensign (like one wears gunties) whereas one flies a flag (like one flies Easyjet rather than BA).
Particular, or what?
No. One doesn't wear an ensign (well I suppose you could at a toga party if you felt like it - and preferably if it were a large one?)
The boat wears the ensign; you don't. As its clothes, its uniform, indicating its nationality. It's not any old flag.
Very simple, not some snobbish, arcane verbal distinction as some like to imply. A yacht's national ensign is just a different thing from any old flag.
Jamesuk
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;22692 said:
Oh god, better not mention the same question for the all important; The WHITE Ensign.
BelleSerene
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How do you do that if the boat's behaviour is not to be flying any burgee that would entitle it to wear the privileged ensign?
