Masthead Streamer

[ianc1200]

I'm trying to find where to buy a fitting to screw onto the truck, with an arm to hold a streamer horizontal and rotate with the wind direction. Have tried the usual Classic Marine type suppliers so far without any luck. Have noticed on a few Dutch sailing barges, so looking at any specialist supplier for these craft, but any ideas?

 

[Seajet]

Just a thought, the RN fly these sort of things as ' paying off penants ' on retiring warships, usually very long indeed; the scale etc is almost certainly all wrong but it might be another line of research, ie what do they use, is there a suitable sized model warship job ?

 

[ianc1200]

Andy, thanks for the suggestion. Got a feeling may have to get manufactured by somebody who works in SS, but hoping there's an "on the shelf solution" somewhere.

 

[Woodlouse]

You could by a hawk wind indicator and modify it to suit. Otherwise it's probably a custom job.

 

[Seajet]

Ian,
I can't help thinking there's an ideal solution just within grasp if only I could remember it; something like a stainless ring around the masthead with the banner attached by a ring - in the style of a key fob...

Would need to be a lot stronger than a Hawk indicator though, I sailed my A22 up & down the harbour last week in a good F6, 1 reef in, and the masthead stuff was vibrating like mad, I'm sure wouldn't have taken it for long; I should have tensioned the kicker a lot more but we were a bit short of space to leave the helm, and it was a short demo sail for a new A22 owner.

The flogging of a ribbon would be quite powerful in a breeze I'd think, and I might well want a way to get it down like a burgee halliard or it could vibrate on the boat and drive neighbouring boats nuts, like racer's House / Battle flags do !

Would be worth a close look at the ribbons the Dutch use, might well be a fork tail or shape makes them a lot less annoying ?

 

[ianc1200]

Andy (& others) think I have got my solution, one of the well known smack restorers in the Brightlingsea/St Osyth area has a contact & will help me out with a design.

 

[Seajet]

Ian,
please let us see it asap out of curiosity !

 

[ianc1200]

View attachment 53968

This the sort of thing I'm after (seen on a Dutch Barge in Lake Lothing, Lowestoft)

 

[ianc1200]

As was on Storm in 1920's

 

[Seajet]

Ah, nowhere near as long as I was thinking.

In the old days someone like Zephyrace might have been the people to contact, but now, maybe Jeckells ?

 

[sideshowbob]

We might be interested in one if you come up with something!!

 

[ianc1200]

It's being worked on, re Andy's not as long as he thought, it's been put to me my horizontal 2' & 3' beyond could get caught in the peak halyard etc as it's happened on another craft. I've drawn out to scale and 5' is about longest it can be. Thanks again for all thoughts, it may be some months before I have the finished article & be able to show a photo here.