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Kira, cozy autumn fox 🦊

@rek Cool!

1. Possible typo on the caption for "[c]an I come alongside?".

2. How do you store your flags for easy access?

3. Have y'all had any many opportunities to use flags to communicate in your travels?

17 October at 20:00 | Wall-to-wall | Open on sunbeam.city
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@tty
1. Ah! Thx, I i will correct this.

As for 2 and 3, the aim of the project is to document ways of communicating, even if they have fallen out of favor, which is the case for the ICS for pleasure boaters. Most sailors nowadays do not know the meanings of the flags(but they know the phonetic alphabet). The navy still uses it tho. I aim to make some flags this year to carry onboard our boat, to practice with, but we already had the Q and O flag onboard(still widely in use).

17 October at 21:47 | Open on merveilles.town
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@tty We fly the Q flag when checking into a country (we flew it this year, although not everyone does this), and the O flag is usually attached to a long pole to use when someone falls overboard.

17 October at 21:49 | Open on merveilles.town
418 I'm a Teapot

@rek @tty I sometimes think about sailing up to a navy ship and doing a performance of sending absurd signals using flags

17 October at 22:01 | Open on merveilles.town
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@chainik do you carry all the signal flags aboard?

17 October at 22:46 | Open on merveilles.town
418 I'm a Teapot

@rek for some reason i don't fully understand, two sets. i'm not very good a remembering them though. you web site might help :)

17 October at 22:55 | Open on merveilles.town
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@chainik I'm trying to find a set for our boat right now. Pretty sure others in our area have sets aboard they're not using :>

19 October at 16:50 | Open on merveilles.town
spooky blip 👻

@rek @chainik Oh wow. This reference is cool - I had no idea any of these except O and Q existed. Never seen them (except Q, which I carried) on the water in WA or BC, and they're not taught as part of the semi-required boater's ed curriculum in WA (the only flags you get taught in that course are the red and white diver-down flag (not the A flag), and the 'murica flag being required on your stern if you leave US waters)

19 October at 17:11 | Open on merveilles.town
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@tty I also wanted to add that some pleasure boaters do carry those flags aboard, esp old school ones :>. The signals flags are used in racing(although they have their own code for them). On special occasions boats fly all of the signal flags at once (referred to as being 'fully dressed')
17 October at 22:38 | Open on merveilles.town
wrack

@rek @tty Old skoolers will also tell you there is a correct order for the flags when dressing a ship/yacht. I'm not sure you'd find anyone who'd know what that order is anymore!

19 October at 21:12 | Open on merveilles.town
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