Frogmogman
Well-known member
You just can't get good staff these days.
Leaving La Linea the other week for Faro, staff in socket, ensign rolled around it. The admiral had made it from proper stuff, very proud of it, it fell out of socket! Full mob, thinks oh wooden staff will float it, nah, it sank befire we could get it! Gutted!My ensign, when I remember to attach it to the boat (I'm not one for such stuff) is attached to a metal fitting with string.
And your reply to my observation was what exactly?
Yes, but his ensign costs about a quarter of what ours do.
Our flag pole was on the main road opposite the RCT Depot in Aldershot. When on duty, the guard commander would ask someone to nip out and take the flag in at the appropriate time. Folded up and stuck under the desk until the following morning.
I do find this faux tradition quite amusing at times, as though some people are commanding a frigate. Still, if it keeps some people happy who am I to denigrate them.
Unscrew fitting. Take ensign staff and fitting home. Leave in airing-cupboard 3/4 days.
Bob will be a relation.
a week in the airing cupboard and no sign of the pine staff coming out of the fitting and now knackered both in trying to separate them! I bought a pine one as they are made in Finland, as bought from Force 4 and i thought pine more eco-friendly! so now a new fitting and hardwood staff: couldn`t find one with a ferule, maybe unique to HRs? Dabchick is ketch rigged with split main backstay so not suitable to fly from the backstay and I don`t have the curved staff some ketches have on the mizzen. So this coming back holiday weekend if you see me taking my ensign down it is not out of excessive concern for etiquette but just making sure the staff doesn`t get stuck again!
Buller Barracks by any chance?
a week in the airing cupboard and no sign of the pine staff coming out of the fitting and now knackered both in trying to separate them! I bought a pine one as they are made in Finland, as bought from Force 4 and i thought pine more eco-friendly! so now a new fitting and hardwood staff: couldn`t find one with a ferule, maybe unique to HRs? Dabchick is ketch rigged with split main backstay so not suitable to fly from the backstay and I don`t have the curved staff some ketches have on the mizzen. So this coming back holiday weekend if you see me taking my ensign down it is not out of excessive concern for etiquette but just making sure the staff doesn`t get stuck again!
As I said before, ferrules are not unique to HRs but widely sold in chandleries. This just happened to be top of the list when I googlified it. https://jimmygreen.com/426-flag-staffs-and-sockets