Dressing a boat for the Diamond Jubilee

Trundlebug said:
I'm really surprised that the first link on the Google list describes dressing overall as "bunting".

I always thought bunting was just the collection of colourful (but usually plain) triangular flags used at fetes etc, whereas dressed overall is the nautical term for nautical applications?

Bunting? Pah! That's for landlubbers!:)
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My Father who was in the Royal Marines and served in Cruisers in the last War, called signallers 'Bunting Tossers' I think the '******' element referred to the act of flying flags rather than its more popular usage nowadays! so bunting was a nautical term.
 
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davidfox said:
My Father who was in the Royal Marines and served in Cruisers in the last War, called signallers 'Bunting Tossers' I think the '******' element referred to the act of flying flags rather than its more popular usage nowadays! so bunting was a nautical term.
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Although surely that shows it was a derogatory term rather than a proper nautical one?

Rather like rival engineering disciplines calling civil engineers "Brickies", mechanical engineers "spanners" and electrical engineers "sparkies". Oh, and chemical engineers "comical engineers". etc
 
I'll be in France for the Diamond Jubilee weekend. Where I am going there is a boat festival going on, so I don't think my dressing overall will look out of place - even though my reason for flying the "bunting" won't be the same as theirs.

In addition to the signal code flags and my French courtesy flag, do you think it would be awfully bad form to fly my "200 anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar" flag? :D:D
 
Flying Penguin said:
Personally I think it would be awfully bad form not to....

Purely in the interest of celebrating our shared history of course.... ;)
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The amusing thing is that the reason for the jolity over there is that it is the weekend of the 320th anniversary of another naval battle (in which a combined English/Dutch fleet took on the French). The French view one day of the battle as a draw. We view the whole of the events over a number of days as a single battle, in which the "allied" forces were victorious.

In the evening there is a concert of reconciliation between the French and the Dutch/English.

Only 113 years to go to the reconciliation concert for Trafalgar. ;)
 
Angele said:
I'll be in France for the Diamond Jubilee weekend. Where I am going there is a boat festival going on, so I don't think my dressing overall will look out of place - even though my reason for flying the "bunting" won't be the same as theirs.

In addition to the signal code flags and my French courtesy flag, do you think it would be awfully bad form to fly my "200 anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar" flag? :D:D
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I will be dressing overall in Calais, flags need an airing. Get a bit smug when I put them up as for Trafalgar 200 I made permanent dressing lines so they go up without a snag. :D Got the 200 pennant too but not sure I shall put it up!
 
Trundlebug said:
Although surely that shows it was a derogatory term rather than a proper nautical one?

Rather like rival engineering disciplines calling civil engineers "Brickies", mechanical engineers "spanners" and electrical engineers "sparkies". Oh, and chemical engineers "comical engineers". etc
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I think in the context of the time '******' may not have had the same pejorative overtones it does today. Bunting ****** = someone who sends bunting up in the air?
Incidentally, how does the harbourmaster propose to deal with those, of a republican/Roundhead bent who would prefer not to be involved in celebrating the jubilee?
 
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