What pennant do you fly?

Nostrodamus

Nostrodamus

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I often look at other boats flying pennants and to date I have recognised ... one. A witch on a broomstick saying wife aboard.

Is there a point to flying pennants from the shrouds or are they just an expensive flag that lasts about a season.

I believe the scuttlebutt have their own pennant but I don't know what that looks like.

Seeing as no one recognises them anyway I might just design my own. I doesn't have to have a meaning but someone is bound to ask what it is.

Any suggestions?
 
Assume you are referring to burgees (got to call things by the right name). These are usually related to a club and are flown to indicate your membership of that club. Essential to fly the correct one if you also fly a defaced ensign.

Otherwise they are just individual affectations so you can have your own. A design showing Big Brother keeping you in check might be suitable in your case. Could give you endless hours of fun explaining to others what it means.
 
I fly this one when we're open for visitors!
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The term "Burgee" rather refers to the small flag, of whatever shape ( triangular for racing, square for cruising etc.) flown at the masthead and very useful as a wind direction indicator, doesn't it?

When flown from a spreader, a flag of ANY shape is either a signal, a house flag or if on the stbd. side a "Courtesy ENSIGN", surely?

Incidentally, all our flags are sewn bunting; not a printed flag in sight.
 
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Steve C Cronin said:
The term "Burgee" rather refers to the small flag, of whatever shape ( triangular for racing, square for cruising etc.) flown at the masthead and very useful as a wind direction indicator, doesn't it?

When flown from a spreader, a flag of ANY shape is either a signal, a house flag or if on the stbd. side a "Courtesy ENSIGN", surely?

Incidentally, all our flags are sewn bunting; not a printed flag in sight.
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Just out of intrest what colour flag do you hang off the back
 
We made a really great Antigua courtesy flag once from a bit of red cloth and some poster paints.

Do you know that all the colours used in a painted Antigua courtesy flag when mixed together with rainwater turn into grey blobs on your coach roof?
 
Nostrodamus said:
I often look at other boats flying pennants and to date I have recognised ... one. A witch on a broomstick saying wife aboard.

Is there a point to flying pennants from the shrouds or are they just an expensive flag that lasts about a season.

I believe the scuttlebutt have their own pennant but I don't know what that looks like.

Seeing as no one recognises them anyway I might just design my own. I doesn't have to have a meaning but someone is bound to ask what it is.

Any suggestions?
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Moonshine is Ferrocement. I'd love to have one picturing a concrete mixer.
 
capnsensible said:
Rolling hitch.

I was going to mention that today, I was alongside a yacht with girls underwear pegged out to dry just right there next door on the shrouds but it would sound a bit pervy, so I wont.
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Or a Prusik knot, which I use for the ensign on the backstay from time to time. I have never used shrouds though, I prefer the port side signal halliard.
 
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