Courtesy Flags

HaraldS

HaraldS

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What are you doing about having the appropriate courtesy flags when you sail to less known places. Most of the shops seem to have the popular stuff, but that doesn't go very far. Are there shops specialized on that? Or is it a do it yourself job? I have been thinking on printing it on T-shirt foil and ironing it on, but I'm not sure how long that would last. Good ideas are most welcome.

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Take lots of coloured fabric and make them yourself. It is a good way to spend time on a long voyage, especially for kids.

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I would try a search on the internet for a local chandler who may be able to post something suitable via an online 'shop'. If you're going somewhere different presumably a small dictionary would be useful, so some sailing terms in the local language could be used as a basis for the search.

Alternatively, again on the internet, find a local sailing club and email them with a question.

It depends on your point of view and which you think might be more fun. Making flags sounds like a great idea for bored crew on passage.

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Hi Harald,
You can buy special fabric paints from artist supply shops but if like me you are a bit selfconcious about your artistic prowess try www.tidesend.com/flags.htm
I used to buy flags of all kinds from them by post when living in the states although I have no idea at all what they would charge now...


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Theres been quite a few on ebay recently, still a few around from about £3.50 ea (nothing to do with me I hasten to add!)

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Agree, but ...

... do make sure they look quite correct or they can cause offence. I was taken aside and reprimanded in Barbados for having a yellow, rather than a gold background to part of their flag. Another time, a Portuguese harbour master expressed disgust to me about another British yacht in that port which had used a pan scourer for the green part of his courtesy ensign (the colour is a good match). To make the punishment fit the crime, he was assigned to a particularly dirty part of the harbour.

I defy anyone to make a reputable looking Dominica flag!

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NZ flag is easy - just make it without the Union Jack in the corner and most people will be happier! (I am a kiwi - there are lots of "alternative" flags in NZ, one of the most popular designed by an Austrian hippy who settled in NZ).

BTW, I read on your site the reasoning for your boat name, but did you realise it is very close to Maori for "water spirit". The correct word in Maori is "taniwha" (the name of my own boat) but I think taniwani is used in some dialects. You may like to check on soc.culture.nz. If you do, please let us know!

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Buy your self a couple of bed white bed sheets two packets of large permanent markers and a book on flags, we did this for a windies trip,saved us a bucket of money and was interesting in the process, after all with a flag book invariably there is a paragraph or two on when the flag was adopted etc, ..............keith

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Hi, Kiwi Ric.
My boat, named by the previous owner, is called "Te Tiaroa". Is this a Kiwi name, and if so, what does it mean ? Thanks. Alan. Canada.

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Te Tiaroa is an atoll in Tahiti. It used to be owned by Marlon Brando. I suspect that is what your boat was named after. "Te" means "the" in maori, but Tiaroa is a tahitian word I think. Although tahitian is very close to maori, because the maoris came to NZ from mostly what is now French Polynesia, there are lots of different words

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Hi Ric,

that is very interesting, I'll investigate this a bit. Maybe the late author had some vage knowledge about this name. Another children book by him, which plays in the arabic world has tweaked arabic names in it. So maybe...


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Re: where are you going? nm

jimmy green will get you most of what you need as far as panama. anything for the caribbean that you can't get from them you can buy locally out there.

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