Stainless or mahogany?

[Graham_Wright]

It's at the correct angle according to EU Regulation EC49723/aa789/1918 (as amended).

Er we're not in the EU are we?!

Seriously, I didn't know that. Does it apply to the Blue (and White?).

Mine (blue) is worn on a vertical staff.

 

[Jamie Dundee]

Thanks for the input chaps. As it’s a modern, white plastic boat I’m thinking it’s going to be stainless. Currently I’ve got a cheapo small pine staff which is too small for my new 3/4 yard defaced ensign so that can go on the coachroof and be a new home for a penant or the anchor ball when parked. Some nice pics of teak/mahogany staffs there but on more traditional boats than mine. A 1m stainless pole should do the job nicely. Didn’t know there was a regulation angle, but we’re not in the EUch here so who cares ?

Wonky horizon due to boat rolling like a drunk earlier on ?

 

[pvb]

Didn’t know there was a regulation angle, but we’re not in the EUch here so who cares ?

I should confess that it was just my little joke!

 

[Graham_Wright]

I should confess that it was just my little joke!

Good. I'll help if you need it correcting.

 

[pvb]

Good. I'll help if you need it correcting.

Very kind, but it doesn't need correcting. It's about 30 degrees off vertical, like many off-the-shelf sockets, enough to ensure the ensign flaps nicely in a light breeze.

 

[sailorman]

Easy question, new flagstaff on a ‘peche promanade’, stainless or mahogany. Roughly the same price so purely aesthetic.

Varnished Teak

 

[sailorman]

Very kind, but it doesn't need correcting. It's about 30 degrees off vertical, like many off-the-shelf sockets, enough to ensure the ensign flaps nicely in a light breeze.

I made mine , laminated teak with a nice curve in the top supporting a yard & a quarter sewn Red Ensign

 

[pyrojames]

I made mine , laminated teak with a nice curve in the top supporting a yard & a quarter sewn Red Ensign

I know someone who is after a new teak ensign staff....

 

[jwilson]

I almost bought a new S/S ensign staff after someone broke the second wooden one. Then I realised that in tight marina berthing the ensign staff is the most vulnerable item, and at least a wooden one will snap, rather than break or bend the socket welded to the pushpit.

 

[johnalison]

I almost bought a new S/S ensign staff after someone broke the second wooden one. Then I realised that in tight marina berthing the ensign staff is the most vulnerable item, and at least a wooden one will snap, rather than break or bend the socket welded to the pushpit.

You met that bloke who thought that Eastborne marina was a good place to teach his wife to do tight manoeuvres too then?

 

[Jamie Dundee]

Very kind, but it doesn't need correcting. It's about 30 degrees off vertical, like many off-the-shelf sockets, enough to ensure the ensign flaps nicely in a light breeze.

I always wondered why they were not vertical. Makes sense that a flag not hanging straight on its pole will offer more ‘windage’. ?

I did try setting my current pole at an angle but it just looked naff, like a Cortina with furry dice and ‘Dave and Carol’ sun strip ?

 

[sailorman]

I know someone who is after a new teak ensign staff....

for a teak Yot ??

 

[pyrojames]

for a teak Yot ??

No, an older plastic one, but not and AWB.