YBW Burgees & Pirate Flags for the kids!

Fairly sure I've seen skull-and-crossbones flags at Force 4, but there must be any number of sellers on the internet. In Padstow the other week we saw a big old trading ketch in harbour with a hoist of miscellaneous flags, one of which was like a skull and crossbones but with cutlasses instead of bones and a badger's face instead of a skull. The crew we spoke to called it "the Jolly Badger" :)

Forumite hlb is the man to ask about the burgees.

On Kindred Spirit I just tied my anchor ball onto the signal halyard, yes. Sheet bend top and bottom. On Ariam I use the spinnaker halyard instead, which has a snap-shackle to clip on.

Pete
 
FullCircle said:
A PM to hlb for a burgee may do it.

We bought a 8ft x 5ft Pirate flag from http://www.britishflags.co.uk/product.php?PID=1730
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Thanks for that FC, if you were in the Solent a few weeks ago I may have seen you, we passed someone with a huge flag :D

Thanks Pete, I seem to remember you had some kind of gismo on Ariam you could attach things to other than a snap shackle, may have been somebody else but don't think so :confused: a kind of black affair!
 
I also wanted a forum flag but HLB is out of them and seemingly insufficient demand for replacements. May need someone to step in to drum up demand in view of Haydyns position at the moment.

Re the Anchor ball - will start another thread rather than drift this too far.
 
Zagato said:
Thanks Pete, I seem to remember you had some kind of gismo on Ariam you could attach things to other than a snap shackle
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Yep, on both boats I put Inglefield clips on my signal halyards. Largely because all the old flags I inherited from my great-aunt, mostly beautifully home-made, used clips and it seemed a shame to cut them off and replace with toggles. However, though I sewed clips onto the forum burgee and a couple of others, I never got round to fitting them to the anchor ball, so that was always hitched on with a sheet bend through the cord loops top and bottom.

Note that when I hoisted the ball on Kindred Spirit's signal halyard, I took the foot of the halyard forwards to a foredeck cleat, thus hanging the ball in its conventional foretriangle position, not under the spreader like a flag.

Pete
 
We have a length of light cord permanently attached to our anchor ball (and our motor sailing cone; but as an Examiner and in your interpretation of IRPCS that's a required item for me).

We tie the cord down to a fitting on the foredeck (in our case its a grab handle by the forward hatch) and attach the spinnaker pole up haul to a small loop also permanently fixed on the other 'half' of the anchor ball. It's a snap shackle so its very quick and easy. When hoisted the method places the anchor ball or the cone in the fore triangle of the boat.
 
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Thanks for the ideas, and telling me it should go over the foredeck and not under the spreaders...

I think I will make my own non-descript flag up in the meantime with contributions from the kids! :D I'm sure it will have a few 'Moshy Monsters' sewn into it :rolleyes:
 
I bought a cheap pirate flag in Brittany last summer for the kids to fly.

They rather enjoyed the sight of me going up the mast to retrieve the spinny halyard after the top fixing point on the flag gave way - the cheap flag had no rope or tape running all the way up its side and the material just parted. I've since added a small rope.
 
I had a burgee made by a firm in Liverpool. It was for my old Cornish Crabber and was almost identical to the old faded one the boat came with. No more expensive then normal club prices and happy to do one offs. £17 iirc. Next time I go to boat I could look the name up if interested.
 
Sophie19 said:
I had a burgee made by a firm in Liverpool.
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I was thinking of getting a quote from these guys: http://www.hampshireflag.co.uk/Yacht-Club-Burgees.htm

However, I don't know whether Haydyn wants to pass the baton on (I certainly wouldn't want to usurp him if he wishes to continue as burgeemeister) and, assuming someone else does take over, whether there is digital artwork that could be sent to a new supplier. Although someone handy with the right tools could fairly easily reproduce it starting by scanning an existing burgee.

It would be nice to find a supplier willing to keep the design on file and knock out individual flags on request, rather than someone having to fund a production run, keep stock, take payments, and post them out individually. Although in a way that feels a little more "personal", I guess. Certainly I don't think we'd want it advertised on the supplier's site for any Tom Dick and Harry to order :)

Pete
 
prv said:
I was thinking of getting a quote from these guys: http://www.hampshireflag.co.uk/Yacht-Club-Burgees.htm

However, I don't know whether Haydyn wants to pass the baton on (I certainly wouldn't want to usurp him if he wishes to continue as burgeemeister) and, assuming someone else does take over, whether there is digital artwork that could be sent to a new supplier. Although someone handy with the right tools could fairly easily reproduce it starting by scanning an existing burgee.

It would be nice to find a supplier willing to keep the design on file and knock out individual flags on request, rather than someone having to fund a production run, keep stock, take payments, and post them out individually. Although in a way that feels a little more "personal", I guess. Certainly I don't think we'd want it advertised on the supplier's site for any Tom Dick and Harry to order :)

Pete
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I have the artwork for the burgee, as I was going to take the burgees from Haydn, but unfortunately I got posted to Turkey full time for over a year.

If you want it, send me a PM with e-mail.
 
FullCircle said:
I have the artwork for the burgee, as I was going to take the burgees from Haydn, but unfortunately I got posted to Turkey full time for over a year.

If you want it, send me a PM with e-mail.
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Oh dear, this is starting to sound rather like volunteering :)

Not committing to anything just yet, but I'll see what Hampshire Flags can offer. Should also check what Haydyn's attitude is before getting carried away.

Pete
 
Has anyone asked YBW if they would take it on? They already have sales mechanisms on the website so it might be easier if it was just part of the website.
 
prv said:
Oh dear, this is starting to sound rather like volunteering :)

Not committing to anything just yet, but I'll see what Hampshire Flags can offer. Should also check what Haydyn's attitude is before getting carried away.

Pete
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Haydn has considered it a pain in the proverbial for some time now.
 
I've just designed and made myself my own burgee, based on my name, likes and colour of my boat. Lots of fun making it. I'd imagine if you have kids to do it with it could be even more fun and a creative project for the school holidays. I used brightly coloured polyester (the sort that is sold as lining material in most fabric shops), sewed the two triangle pieces back to back, appliqué for the design (two silver crossed keys behind a blue seahorse), then used a bit of bias binding for the bit that will tie on.
 
ninky said:
I've just designed and made myself my own burgee, based on my name, likes and colour of my boat. Lots of fun making it. I'd imagine if you have kids to do it with it could be even more fun and a creative project for the school holidays. I used brightly coloured polyester (the sort that is sold as lining material in most fabric shops), sewed the two triangle pieces back to back, appliqué for the design (two silver crossed keys behind a blue seahorse), then used a bit of bias binding for the bit that will tie on.
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Sounds a better material, I tried cutting up an old black T shirt for the kids to decorate but it just curled up - a stiffer material is needed!
 
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