Make Courtesy and Signal Flags

You can save a good deal of money constructing your own flags and these two authors make the process easy. Bonnie is a live aboard cruiser who found herself in the Caribbean and in need of courtesy flags for entry into ports. Matthew is an owner of a do-it-yourself sail/canvas company and is involved in teaching boater’s how to make fabric items for their boats. Together Bonnie and Matthew have created a book that allows boaters to make the flags needed at sea.

Bonnie presents patterns for all 28 Caribbean courtesy flags and tells you not only how to make them but when and how to fly them. Matthew uses a CAD program to optimize the use of the 5 fabric colors needed to make all of the alphabet, numbers, repeaters and answering pennants and presents easy to following construction techniques.

Chapters Include:

Caribbean Courtesy Flags

Introduction

The Flags of the Caribbean

Flag Etiquette

Materials and Tools

Flag Facts

Construction A B C’s

Flag Patterns

• Antigua and Barbuda
  
• Aruba
  
• Bahamas
  
• Barbados
  
• Belize
  
• Bermuda (see British Red Ensign)
  
• Bonaire (see Netherland Antilles)
  
• British Red Ensign
  
• British Virgin Islands (see British Red Ensign)
  
• Cayman Islands (see British Red Ensign)
  
• Columbia
  
• Costa Rica
  
• Curacao (see Netherland Antilles)
  
• Cuba
  
• Dominica
  
• Dominican Republic
  
• France
  
• Grenada
  
• Guadeloupe (see France)
  
• Guatemala
  
• Haiti
  
• Honduras
  
• Jamaica
  
• Martinique (see France)
  
• Mexico
  
• Montserrat (see British Red Ensign)
  
• Netherland Antilles
  
• Nicaragua
  
• Panama
  
• Puerto Rico
  
• Saba (see Netherland Antilles)
  
• St. Barthelemy (see France)
  
• St. Kitts (Christopher) and Nevis
  
• St. Eustatius (see Netherland Antilles)
  
• St. Lucia
  
• St. Maarten (see Netherland Antilles)
  
• St. Martin (see France)
  
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines
  
• Trinidad and Tobago
  
• Turks and Caicos (see British Red Ensign)
  
• United States Virgin Islands*
  
• Venezuela
  
• QFlag
  
• Star Appliqué Patterns

International Signal Flags

Materials

General Construction Techniques

Flying Your Flag

Use & Meanings:

• Signal Flags
  
• Pennants

• Alphabet
  
• Repeaters
  
• Numeric