What is a YELLOWJACK?

"JIm" wrote in message
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not only that it is the disrespect that many "boaters" show for other
country flags. Flags from other countries are not to be displayed as
"trophies". Bahama flags really look good when they are flown from the
outriggers on a "sports fish"

:last time I was in the Bahamas I caught hell from the immigration
officials
for not flying a yellowjack


"anchorlt" wrote in message
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It torgues my eyes and butt to see U.S. flags flying from bow rails,
spreaders and antennas. Or Q and courtesy flags flying from most
anywhere except where they're supposed to be. Do people not know or do
they deliberately defy propriety?

I once saw a sailboat in Chesapeake Bay with a myriad of differemt
flags flying from starboard and port spreaders, arranged by size from
top to bottom, both halyards, from spreader to very near the deck.

Doug Dotson wrote:

What is a YELLOWJACK?

http://www.fasthealth.com/dictionary...ntine_flag.php

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Good luck and good sailing.
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Never heard it called a yellowjack before, just a Q Flag or
Quaranteen Flag.

Doug
s/v Callista

"Armond Perretta" wrote in message
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Doug Dotson wrote:

What is a YELLOWJACK?

http://www.fasthealth.com/dictionary...ntine_flag.php

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

Interesting lexicography. A "jack" is a officially small flag
indicating a vessel's nationality as in Union Jack and the fixture it is
displayed on known as a jack staff. It was corrupted to mean any small
flag such as a courtesy or signal flag. The Q for quarantine being
yellow became known as the "yellow jack". Because if its connotation to
a disease, Yellow Jack is also another name for yellow fever.


Doug Dotson wrote:
Never heard it called a yellowjack before, just a Q Flag or
Quaranteen Flag.

Doug
s/v Callista

"Armond Perretta" wrote in message
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Doug Dotson wrote:

What is a YELLOWJACK?

http://www.fasthealth.com/dictionary...ntine_flag.php

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







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