showing the right/wrong/no flag

[Poignard]

I see more blue ensigns than the red duster.

How are you with traffic lights?

 

[satsuma]

I see more blue ensigns than the red duster.
who is allowed to fly the blue one?

To legitimately fly a blue ensign, you should have a warrant issued by the secretary of state for defence! (or issued at his behest!).
I did once get challenged by the border agency! boarded and checked my warrant! Also admitted at the time they were P*ss*d, "because they're not allowed to fly one" (his words!)
He didn't go into detail about what might have happened if I wasn't authorised?

 

[Nostrodamus]

To legitimately fly a blue ensign, you should have a warrant issued by the secretary of state for defence! (or issued at his behest!).
I did once get challenged by the border agency! boarded and checked my warrant! Also admitted at the time they were P*ss*d, "because they're not allowed to fly one" (his words!)
He didn't go into detail about what might have happened if I wasn't authorised?

Thank you for that.
So what qualifies a person to apply for one. I am intrested to know who all these people with the blue flags are and what they have done to get one.
They seem a little to easy to get.

 

[Poignard]

Thank you for that.
So what qualifies a person to apply for one. I am intrested to know who all these people with the blue flags are and what they have done to get one.
They seem a little to easy to get.

Very easy. Just follow these simple steps:

1. Sign on for 12 years in the Royal Navy
   
2. Become a member of the Royal Naval Sailing Association
   
3. Buy a boat with a Part 1 Registration
   
4. Fill in the simple application form for a warrant to fly the undefaced blue ensign
   
5. Buy a RNSA burgee
   
6. Buy the blue ensign

 

[Nostrodamus]

Very easy. Just follow these simple steps:

1. Sign on for 12 years in the Royal Navy
   
2. Become a member of the Royal Naval Sailing Association
   
3. Buy a boat with a Part 1 Registration
   
4. Fill in the simple application form for a warrant to fly the undefaced blue ensign
   
5. Buy a RNSA burgee
   
6. Buy the blue ensign

No wonder there are so many of them if they are that easy to get

I think If I was genuinely entitled to one for the service I had done I would be pretty miffed to see just anyone flying one.

As someone who is not entitled to one then I have respect for anyone who has done 12 years or more in any of our forces.

 

[dylanwinter]

is that it

Very easy. Just follow these simple steps:

1. Sign on for 12 years in the Royal Navy
   
2. Become a member of the Royal Naval Sailing Association
   
3. Buy a boat with a Part 1 Registration
   
4. Fill in the simple application form for a warrant to fly the undefaced blue ensign
   
5. Buy a RNSA burgee
   
6. Buy the blue ensign

do you have to do all of the above - or just some of the above - or just one of the above


Dylan

 

[Nostrodamus]

do you have to do all of the above - or just some of the above - or just one of the above


Dylan

Are you after a blue one Dylan?

 

[dylanwinter]

too much windage

Are you after a blue one Dylan?

the anwer is no

slow the slug even more

and to fly one on the slug would be like putting lipstick on a pig

but...

if you can get one just by buying the right boat.....or buyuing your wy into the right club as as opposed to earning one from long service then it means a good deal less

although if some-one is flying one it is obviously important to them

I have spent a lot of time working in America on cattle ranches

the cowboys have a saying

"admire a big horse..... but saddle a small one"

in other words if a bloke has big horse/blue flag then it makes life a heck of a lot easier to just tell him what a great loking horse/flag he has

meanwhile .... for the ordinary man.... a little horse is cheaper to run

so to all you blue ensign wavers...... respect dude.... if you did the 12 years

if you got it by another route.... well I shall still offer my respect because tht it what you want and it will probably make my life easier if I tug the odd forelock.


Dylan

 

[Nostrodamus]

Buy a set of union jack boxer shorts.
When or if you wash them you can just hang them from the spreaders or backstay.

I dont know who's flag you have up there. White ones with a brown stripe

 

[rcm]

when to fly

Don't fly it at night-no one will know,you could only be reasonably fined 50% and; so I'm told it will last twice as long.! Sorry what .......your not meant to fly the damned thing at night anyway.

 

[BosnBill]

Wow!

 

[goboatingnow]

very good point - it is nice for some of the locals to see the duster flying from a foreigners yard arm

although I could not give a tinkers if the dutch or french decide to fly one or not

rather sad that they can fly the union flag and I can't

or shouldn't

D

Them Foreigners fly the maritime Ensign, ie the Duster, not the Union flag, unless of course they have the queen aboard

 

[Rigger Mortice]

Has anyone ever got into trouble for showing the wrong flag or no flag at all?

AFAIK, never on the water but frequently on YBW.