Windeward Bound still carries a full set of signalling flags and while they do see some use, we don’t send often complicated messages with them because we have things like VHF radio. But when the tall ship festivals were on, we thought there might be other sailors out there who’d be able to read the flags. Since we didn’t need to send serious messages with them, we wound up sending joke messages in the traditional manner: bible references.
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