Ensign staff angle

[ashtead]

I watched a mobo the other day carefully remove his ensign staff and ensign and instead of putting below putting a cover over the rolled ensign much like you would cover a rotary washing line with and then he carefully replace the ensign repeat with cover in the holder. The bottom 5 inches of the staff was clearly angled out and when dropped in the holder place the furled ensign at a jaunty angle . Presumably you could have 2 staffs made up in stainless and carry a sailing ensign on one and a larger harbour ensign on the other with different angles for each.

 

[chubby]

Having replaced my pine staff which had swollen inside the SS socket and showed no sign of shifting despite a week in the airing cupboard, I found a hardwood one and a socket you can clamp to the stern rail and adjust the angle to be about 15 degrees off vertical so the flag hangs nicely! Adds to the look of the boat! Did look at SS but you have to make sure it will fit the socket: 25 mm OD SS tube won`t go in a 25mm socket. Dutch boats always seemed to look good with a large ensign at a rakish angle!

 

[ashtead]

Dutch boats always seemed to look good with a large ensign at a rakish angle!

It's the large stern windows which sets off the ensign on their steel yachts I think

 

[Vegable]

Have you thought of stainless steel tube clamp clamping it on to the pushpit.
Just had a quick google and this place came up.
http://www.seascrew.com/browse.cfm?l=0000000805
I didn't investigate further.
It should be easy to build up the staff so it fits inside the tubing, or drill right through it and the staff and put a pin through it to hold the staff in place.
Mike

Editted bit.
With a bit more thinking,
Get a block of wood, drill 30mm down it's length, cut it in half down its length then clamp it on to the pushpit. You can then either screw the staff onto your new wooden clamp or make up anothe fancy bit to fasten onto the wooden clamp. Stained and varnished with rounded corners it could look rather smart. You could also add a handle to it to aid unsteady crew.