Dressing, Overall.

[photodog]

Well I got myself a tidy little set of signal flags and pennants.... So what is the ettiquite for dressing overall?

Is there a order in which they should be strung up?

When should a yacht dress overall?

When should it not?

Any other pointers greatly appreciated!

 

[VicS]

From an old edition of PBO magazine but if you want to read little more I recommend the RYA booklet C4 on Flags and Flag Etiquette. It's an interesting, handy and inexpensive little publication to have

 

[Vara]

Vic; you are a rat bag /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

Just spent the last 10 minutes rooting that card out, scanning, putting it on Bucket, composing witty reply, to find that you beat me to it. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Cornishman]

Hope you "dressed ship" yesterday then!

 

[VicS]

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Vic; you are a rat bag

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I scanned it a couple of years ago and I've posted it more than once. Its not as clear as it might be though and it would be better larger linked with a thumbnail. If yours is better I'll let you go first when the subject next crops up, if I remember.

 

[BlueSkyNick]

this info is contained within the Reed's Almanac, under the flags section, if you dont want to print off Vic's card.

 

[Athene V30]

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[raven]

Where's the best place to get hold of a full set of signal flags?

I've seen them in swindlerys and advertised on t'internet but they seem to cost a daft amount of money.

 

[Fourbees]

You can get a string of ready-to-hoist dressing overall flags from one of the chandleries (I forget which), but you need two strings for a boat of average size (e.g. my 32-footer) - my string was enough for one side of the mast only, though it looks quite pretty when I dress over-half!

 

[Athene V30]

Full set of polyester signal flags 12 x 9 (I think) was about £45 or £50 on line from Compass and the like - not looked recently or try e-bay? Always thought the ready made strings of tiny flags look tight! Spent £xx,000 on boat and can only manage £20 for dressing flags!

Got mine 3 or 4 years ago and then I measured my bow to masthead and masthead to pushpit and sewed into permanent lines making it easy to put up. Just cannot use the flags to signal but then who does!

 

[VicS]

I have aready made string but the flags are very small and the string is too short even for a small boat like mine. They are not in the "correct" order either. Heaven knows what they might spell. Useful for decorating the club house though.

 

[phanakapan]

A flag question (not about dressing overall)- I've seen 2 Dutch boats recently with a Number 1 pennant on the back stay- they were not/had not been racing, but were cruising on their own- were they using the number 1 as a sign they were single handed maybe?