Demented Budgie

[ash]

Got round to hoisting the BM burgee at the weekend, and it's a bit demented - no wonder one managed to escape.

I hope that it quietens down a bit by becoming softer.

Since the photo, I've tightened the hoist, but the Vega burgee is subdued by comparison.



Ash

[marisca]

From the port crosstree? Whit an insult!

[Clyde_Wanderer]

From the port crosstree? Whit an insult!

Must admit I am also guilty of this crime Marisca, so can you tell me where you would prefer it be hung?
Mine has frayed its point from whipping on the cap shroud.
C_W

[ash]

From the port crosstree? Whit an insult!

Must admit I am also guilty of this crime Marisca, so can you tell me where you would prefer it be hung?

C_W

I think that the order of precedence - from high to lower - is

Stern
Masthead
Starboard Crosstree
Port Crosstree

My arguement would be that the burgees in question aren't associated with a defaced blue so don't need a high position.

The starboard crosstree would be used for courtesy flag / 'Q' flag.

Maybe they need to be shuffled back and forth dependant on what else is flown.

C_W ...... don't mention your saltire - or you will be flamed!!!

Ash..... ....

[Nick]

Mine has frayed its point from whipping on the cap shroud.

Wherever you choose to fly them from, please make sure that they are not going to fray themselves against a shroud. Shrouds are metal, much stronger than cloth.

[sahona]

The clatter of a case-hardened budgie against an ajacent shroud is 'kin deafening, (and the hoists are too far out from the mast....)
I can't wait for mine to fray and get shorter so I can get to sleep!

[Nick]

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We have put arrangements in place for dropping and furling the budgie when the wind requires it for a good night's sleep.

[sahona]

Don't have the discipline to get them down every night,
it's usually the little puffs interrupting an otherwise quiet night (0400) that do the damage.
Bare feet on a dewy deck lost it's attraction long ago.
going to move the hoist....sometime.