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Rodney Myrvaagnes wrote:

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:54:10 -0500, "Cheshire"
wrote:

Hopefully, this will fall in the "there's no such thing as a stupid
question" category.

When you arrive in the Bahamas, where do you put the quarantine flag? On the
bow, leaving the American flag on the stern?

When you clear customs and immigration, where do you fly the courtesy flag?
Do you fly both it and the American flag?

You put the Q flag under the starboard spreader. When you have
cleared, you remove the Q and replace it with the courtesy flag.


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I was assuming (we know about that right) that he had a power boat.
Where does a power boat put the Q flag and the courtesy flag?

The American (or country of origin) flag does stay on the stern unless
you are flying it from the backstay though.

From: http://www.usps.org/f_stuff/etiquett.html

The flag at the stern of your boat-...-should be one inch on the fly for each foot of overall length. The hoist will normally be two-thirds of the fly..

Other flags such as club burgees, officer flags, and private signals for use on sailboats should be approximately 1/2 inch on the fly for each foot of the highest mast above the water. For flying on powerboats, these flags should be roughly 5/8 inch on the fly for each foot of overall length. The shape and proportions of pennants and burgees will be prescribed by the organization to which they relate
.....
As a matter of courtesy, it is proper to fly the flag of a foreign nation on your boat when you enter and operate on its waters. There are only a limited number of positions from which flags may be displayed, and consequently when a flag of another nation is flown, it usually must displace one of the flags commonly displayed in home waters. It is not hoisted until clearance has been completed and the yellow "Q" flag has been removed, and the vessel has been granted pratique by the appropriate authorities.

The following are general guidelines to follow reguarding courtesy flags:

On a mastless powerboat, the courtesy flag of another nation replaces any flag that is normally flown at the bow of the boat.
When a motorboat has a mast with spreaders, the courtesy flag is flown at the starboard spreader.
On a two-masted motorboat, the courtesy flag displaces any flag normally flown at the forward starboard spreader.
On a sailboat, the courtesy flag is flown at the boat's starboard spreader, whether the United States ensign is at the stern staff, or flown from the leech. If there is more than one mast, the courtesy flag is flown from the starboard spreader of the forward mast



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