DSK wrote:
MLapla4120 wrote:
Hi, I'm a new boat owner/sailboat, and
would love to hear the proper method for
flying a flag, location, type etc.

Here's a good start
http://www.sailonline.com/seamanship...etiquette.html

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Here's another:

http://www.sailnet.com/collections/a...eid=rousma0041

In short:

First, the national ensign gets the place of honor, which is sometimes a
different location on different types of boats. Second, ONE FLAG PER HOIST.
If you don't have a sufficient number of flag halyards at the correct
locations, don't fly that flag that day. Finally, it takes more than a
little trouble sometimes to get it right, as anyone who has used a pigstick
to put the burgee at the masthead will tell you.

These days displaying the national ensign from a pole at the stern of the
sailboat, both underway and at anchor, will do just fine.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.home.comcast.net/