Rodney Myrvaagnes wrote:
"Armond Perretta" wrote:

One problem I've run into over the years is the complexity of
handing the club burgee and the masthead pigstick without breaking
or bending at least _something_ up there ...

I will never use a pigstick, although I know it is traditional. 99%
of the time the signal halyard is free to carry burgees. When the
'Q' or a courtesy flag is needed, the burgee can wait.

I suspect that even traditionalists have come to terms with burgees on the
starboard signal halyard. It makes good economic sense in any case. What
they probably do not like, however, is showing more than one flag on a
single hoist. This at times seems to result in flag chaos, but I suppose if
that's the least of our worries we're doing reasonably well.

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Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.tripod.com