Flag Etiquette

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Old_Glow_In_The_Deep
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Re: Flag Etiquette

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aquaplane wrote:
Old_Glow_In_The_Deep wrote:But!.... I might just be tempted to fly this one:

http://www.flagandbuntingstore.co.uk/ac ... shire.html
You can't do that.

One of these would look quite good though:
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But only if you are qualified to fly it :lol:
Why not!?

I think I can. :wink:

This could make for a very interesting muster….. somewhere soon!

But I do think this one has the edge.... :)

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Re: Flag Etiquette

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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.
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Sorry, couldn't resist putting that pic up . Thanks again DonAja
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Re: Flag Etiquette

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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.
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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.
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Re: Flag Etiquette

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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 :?:

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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.
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Mariquita, William Fife design
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Registered in Glasgow and parked up at Nice so I asked whether they'd be flying the Saltire any time soon ...
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During our trip up to Loch Sunart last week we passed about 18 or so other yachts.

Spotted:-
5 Saltires :saltire
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
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Re: Flag Etiquette

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Why doesn't Mariquita have a dragonny thing on the hull?
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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.
- Nick 8)

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