Nautical Quiz....This could be a problem...?
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That's the way to do it!Brings back a fond memory. When we were racing we always showed the flag when sailing out to the course and up to the 5 minute signal. Then it was such a pleasure to stow the flag, then show it again after we crossed finish line. A matter of pride and seamanship. Ah..., those were the days....
I'm a fan of proper flag etiquette. Our PHRF 1 flag is up only while racing, otherwise its the ensign during proper daylight hours.
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A lot of Europeans will fly their country flags on the port flag halyard when bareboating and many, especially the French Canadians and French, their "state" flags when sailing down here on their private boats.
I've always wanted to reregister in Hawaii and fly the state flag as my national flag as the Stars and Stripes is so unpopular these days. After all, many Hawaiians don't really want to be a state and would rather have their independence back.
I've always wanted to reregister in Hawaii and fly the state flag as my national flag as the Stars and Stripes is so unpopular these days. After all, many Hawaiians don't really want to be a state and would rather have their independence back.
They likely wouldn’t be independent very long before some other great power annexed, or similar. They are lucky, given history, that they are not part of a Japanese empire in the Pacific. Just like Britain is lucky that it’s not presently a Reich protectorate, or the whole of Europe not part of a Soviet empire, etc.
This is a common international convention right? Boats flag of registry on the transom, courtesy flag of the visited nation on starboard, flags of occupants nation on port.
FYI,
The Stars and Bars refers to the CSA national flag.
The flag some of you are exercised about is the Confederate battle flag.
The Stars and Bars refers to the CSA national flag.
The flag some of you are exercised about is the Confederate battle flag.
I learned something new.... you are correct. A quick google search turned up this as the "stars and bars"
I guess one question might be if chartering, the boat that the charterer is on carries its flag of registry, say Canada. But if that crew is not Canadian and wished to fly their own national flag, i.e., that of the occupants, would it still fly at the port spreader? I reckon it would. But then what files at the starboard spreader—Club burgee, if there is one?
That's what you do. In Greece, the Pogo has its Greek flag of registration on the transom, American occupant flag on Port. If we went to a Turkish Island, we would fly Yellow (quarantine) on starboard until cleared in, then replace Yellow with the Turkish ensign.
The flag of the country where the boat is visiting, as usual. I suppose that if the country of registry & the country where the chartered boat is located is the same, then there is no need to fly anything on the starboard spreader … unless you need to fly a quarantine flag!
So if JD was sailing a boat registered in Granada to St. Vincent they would have the Granada flag on the stern, St. Vincent flag on starboard spreader, and stars & stripes on the port spreader, no?
(posting this just as JD posted
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The other part of this is due to Martinique being a French DOM (département d’outre-mer). As such it is a true French state (département), the residents are French Citizens, and all boats registered there are French. As Capta will attest, the French love the Windwards, and Martinique is their favorite jumping off place, due to common language and currency, as well as the multiple daily flights from several french airports.
When I chartered last in Canada, on a boat of Canadian registry of out of Vancouver, I did not fly the Stars & Stripes at all, but I did fly my club burgee and officer flag below it on the starboard spreader. Now that I remember more about it, charter boats do not usually have halyards rigged on the port spreader; at least not the ones I've been on. I definitely know the one I mention above, the Hanse 495, did not. Explains why we did not fly the Stars & Stripes. The owners of boats that they have placed into charter, sometimes very shortly after purchase, would have little interest in rigging port-side flag halyards if not there.
I had to rig the port-side flag halyard on the Bavaria after I bought it. Four years old; it evidently did not come so rigged from the dealer, etc.; nor definitely from the previous owner.
I had to rig the port-side flag halyard on the Bavaria after I bought it. Four years old; it evidently did not come so rigged from the dealer, etc.; nor definitely from the previous owner.
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Normally, from my observation, it is the national flag of those onboard on the port side. It seems only the French and Corsicans fly the "state" flags, more often than not.