Lower Fore St, Beer, East Devon, EX12 3EG
The Jimmy Green Flag Team are enthusiastic about flags and consequently offer the most comprehensive range of sailing flags and flag accessories:
Jimmy Green Courtesy Flags are manufactured to a very high standard in our supply partner factory in Italy. The strict quality controls ensure that each flag is well crafted, neatly stitched, UV-Fade, and Wind-Fray Resilient. All Courtesy Flags are manufactured from strong and durable 145 grams per m2 (+/- 5%) top quality 100% polyester, specially knit, woven bunting to measure a nominal 45cm x 30cm (Half Yard) with colourfast screenprint patterns and motifs.
Jimmy Green Courtesy Flags are not made from the shiny, cheaper nylon fabric, nor are they the smaller 20cm x 30cm size.
Jimmy Green stock well over 200 different Courtesy Flags, 218 in fact at the last count, and we will add more if there is any demand.
All Jimmy Green Courtesy Flags are available individually: You can search the flags by Ocean/Location. Some Flags may appear in more than one zone, e.g., Spain = North Atlantic and Mediterranean. There is also additional local geographical information to help your search. The Parent Country is also listed where appropriate so that you can identify whether you need a specific island flag or not:
e.g. The Netherlands or Netherlands Antilles Courtesy Flag may cover Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius, Saba, Bonaire, Curacao. However, the feel-good factor when you make landfall and sail into your chosen anchorage flying the correct local courtesy flag will more than compensate for the extra price of the individual flags :-)
Jimmy Green Courtesy Flags are also available in Bundles by Voyage Plan, Ocean Passage, or Location.
Any feedback on local reaction to our courtesy flags is welcomed - we will happily do some more research, update our information and even our flags if required. Where there are different options on courtesy flags, we list them separately. Any first-hand feedback is always welcome, e.g. Bermuda is usually red, which is what is listed, but they are generally welcomed in Bermuda in blue. We have some blue ones if you would like one.
Spain is available as the simple red/yellow/red horizontal striped courtesy (less expensive) or with the correct Yacht Ensign Crest option.
N.B. Foreign Yachts should fly the red ensign as a courtesy flag when visiting the UK (not a Union Jack) and may also fly the red ensign for some associated British islands, dominions, and territories without offending.
N.B. Due to the intricate nature of some emblems and motifs, the screen-printed design is sewn onto the panel using the appliqué stitching technique. Some complex patterns and flags made up from multiple shapes, e.g. fesses, pales, bends, crosses, palls, chevrons, bends, and borders - may be made from one screen-printed piece of flag fabric: FLAG SHAPES AND GLOSSARY
As a gesture of courtesy, yachts should fly a foreign nation's flag when they enter and operate in its waters.
There are no universal rules governing courtesy flag etiquette.
Officials interpret the rules differently from country to country, region to region, island to island, or port to port.
Failing to fly a courtesy flag or flying a courtesy flag improperly may only be considered impolite in some places. Still, in others where it is enforced by local law, officials go as far as impounding passports or imposing fines until the proper flag (which may only be available to purchase locally at great expense) is flying on board.
Jimmy Green individual Signal Code Flags are manufactured in our modern supplier partner factory in Italy from top quality UV resistant 100% polyester woven bunting.
Jimmy Green Marine stock all 40 Signal Code Flags from A - Z plus numerals and pennants, available individually or as a set with or without a storage wallet.
Available in both 12" x 8" (30cm x 20cm) or Half Yard (45cm x 30cm) Size
Jimmy Green Sailing Flags are screen printed in our supplier partner, state-of-the-art, modern factory in Italy on top quality UV resistant (for reduced fading) 100% polyester woven bunting.
Printed polyester courtesy flags are lighter, size for size than traditional sewn flags, and will therefore fly better in a light breeze. This also helps to explain why sewn flags seem to last longer – they don’t fly (flap) as much as printed flags.
Sewn Ensigns are sewn together using the same top quality UV resistant 100% woven polyester.
All Jimmy Green courtesy flags, code flags, and ensigns have a braided distance line on the hoist with a loop sewn in at the top and a trailing line at the bottom.
N.B. Premium Sewn Ensigns are fitted with a wooden toggle in the loop. Flag Size Guide