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Re: Flag Etiquette
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 12:07 am
by Old_Glow_In_The_Deep
aquaplane wrote:
You can't do that.
One of these would look quite good though:
But only if you are qualified to fly it
Why not!?
I think I can.
This could make for a very interesting muster….. somewhere soon!
But I do think this one has the edge....
Re: Flag Etiquette
Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 12:48 pm
by sahona
All well and good - but only if the blue is the correct shade -otherwise we're stopped in the water.
I prefer my saltire red ensign, but it's getting a bit faded and frayed after all these years.
Sorry, couldn't resist putting that pic up . Thanks again DonAja
Re: Flag Etiquette
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 2:45 pm
by Arghiro
That would be mine.
BTW, did DaveS's interrogator think he was part of the exercise then? Sounds to me as tho they had been tasked to find & search a yacht flying an orange flag.
Re: Flag Etiquette
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 3:37 pm
by DaveS
It's hard to say. The whole incident was peculiar. Some of the questions about cargo etc. made no sense in the context of a yacht, and I assumed that they were following some sort of standard script. The accent sounded vaguely American, and it was only after the event that I persuaded myself that the three syllable word prefacing "warship" was in fact "Norwegian". At the time I just could not make it out despite several "say again"s.
Re: Flag Etiquette
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 9:52 pm
by Aja
Smashin' photo - if I don't mind saying so myself. See there's another Marcon Claymore in Tarbert, not Claymore's Claymore,
Claymore but a Welsh one I think
Donald
Re: Flag Etiquette
Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 3:35 pm
by sahona
Will keep an eye open for her.
Set off for Tarbert last Friday but the splitter diodes died and all sorts of lights came on. Too lumpy to diagnose/bypass at sea, so another boozy weekend on the pontoon I'm afraid. Fixed now, new muffler to fit, then we're off to "T" again, then the canal and hopefully the outer hee-brides.
Re: Flag Etiquette
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 9:52 am
by ParaHandy
Mariquita, William Fife design
Registered in Glasgow and parked up at Nice so I asked whether they'd be flying the Saltire any time soon ...
Re: Flag Etiquette
Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 9:26 pm
by Orla
During our trip up to Loch Sunart last week we passed about 18 or so other yachts.
Spotted:-
5 Saltires
1 Saltire in the corner of a red flag
5 with nothing flying
2 Canadian
and the rest with a Red Ensign
Oh and 1 frog
Re: Flag Etiquette
Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 11:28 am
by sahona
Why doesn't Mariquita have a dragonny thing on the hull?
Re: Flag Etiquette
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:53 pm
by Nick
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Well, after 5 weeks our very expensive 'Saltire' arrived from Mr. Flag.
It is the wrong colour, a dull, faded turquoise and very definitely nowhere near Pantone 300.
No reply to my email yet.