Stu, No pictures, sorry. One of the loops on a signal flag came apart in the overnight blow, dropping a few to the deck and the others streaming off the halyard. We loosened the halyard completely in hopes that the breeze and movement would work the flags some of the way down, inch by inch. Which it did — a little.
The next day, between Clinton and Black Rock, we had a lull in the breeze and took the opportunity to do some turns to tangle some of the flags in the rig. The lowest flag was now wrapped in the shroud under the lowest spreader. Once at dock in Black Rock, we used the extending boat hook to twist around and grab the lowest flag, using the shroud to keep pressure on it — then slowly pulled downwards. We finally got our hands on it and pulled the rest down, got to the halyard shackle and then untangled the halyard. All back to normal now. All the best, Edd Edd M. Schillay Starship Enterprise C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B City Island, NY Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log <http://enterpriseb.blogspot.com/> > On Sep 18, 2015, at 11:54 AM, Stu via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > Edd > > Did you get your signal flags down after the blow? Any pictures? Tell the > world what happened. > > Stu > _______________________________________________ > >
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