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Beschreibung
Anyone going to sea needs an understanding of maritime flags, and this handy book is the perfect pocket-sized reference.

Concise but comprehensive, it includes:
- National maritime flags
- Special ensigns, jacks, burgees, official and defence flags, and code flags
- Yacht club burgees
- Signal flags (including naval codes, distress signals and racing codes)
- Flag etiquette and usage (from positions to salutes to timing and more)

Expanded and updated for its third edition, the book now includes masthead burgees, as well as new advice on changing rules in European waters and beyond, and more information on the use of and etiquette surrounding local, regional and other unofficial flags.

If you have ever put to sea wondering about the different types of flag, how they are made up, and the dos and don'ts as well as traditions and myths of flying flags then this will be both a fascinating read and a useful on-board guide.
Anyone going to sea needs an understanding of maritime flags, and this handy book is the perfect pocket-sized reference.

Concise but comprehensive, it includes:
- National maritime flags
- Special ensigns, jacks, burgees, official and defence flags, and code flags
- Yacht club burgees
- Signal flags (including naval codes, distress signals and racing codes)
- Flag etiquette and usage (from positions to salutes to timing and more)

Expanded and updated for its third edition, the book now includes masthead burgees, as well as new advice on changing rules in European waters and beyond, and more information on the use of and etiquette surrounding local, regional and other unofficial flags.

If you have ever put to sea wondering about the different types of flag, how they are made up, and the dos and don'ts as well as traditions and myths of flying flags then this will be both a fascinating read and a useful on-board guide.
Über den Autor
Miranda Delmar-Morgan
Zusammenfassung
Covers the correct etiquette for flag use and includes lists of flag suppliers
Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What is a flag? (How it is made, shapes, parts, proportions, sizes, securing)
2. Types of flag (ensigns, jacks, burgees, other flags, defence and official flags, code flags)
3. International code of signals (naval codes, distress signals, racing code flags)
4. Flag etiquette (the law, hoisting times, lowering, approaching a foreign harbour, positions, salutes and more)
5. International yacht club burgees
6. National maritime flags
Glossary
Appendix 1: Yacht clubs using a special ensign
Appendix 2: Selected two-code signals
Appendix 3: Useful flag websites
Appendix 4: Overseas territories, departments, crown dependencies or special administrative regions
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Sport
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Wassersport& Segeln
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472994455
ISBN-10: 1472994450
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Delmar-Morgan, Miranda
Hersteller: Bloomsbury USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 158 x 100 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Miranda Delmar-Morgan
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.01.2023
Gewicht: 0,177 kg
Artikel-ID: 121332175

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