The Poverty Bay burgee displays a red broken ship’s wheel on the hoist
end, with six blue vertical stripes on a white background on the pointed end.
Properly flown, the two broken “spokes” of the wheel will be in the
upper right quadrant. The burgee is
flown from the bow staff of a powerboat and from the masthead of a single masted
sailboat without a bow staff or from the foremost masthead of a sailboat with
two or more masts. It may be flown
day and night when commissioned.
The fifty star, 13 stripe American flag is flown only between 0800 and
sunset. It is mounted on the stern
staff at center or on the starboard side.
A 13 star “Betsy Ross” flag with a fouled anchor in the blue field.
It is flown in lieu of the U.S. Ensign, normally on documented vessels.
Similar to the U.S. Ensign it has 13 vertical blue and white stripes and
13 stars encircling a fouled anchor in a red field.
It is flown from the stern staff or from the starboard spreader when an
active member is in command of the vessel.
It may be flown day and night except when it is flown in lieu of the U.S.
Ensign or U.S. Yacht Ensign when it is flown only between 0800 and sunset.
Commander
Lt. Commander First
Lieutenant
Lieutenant
Squadron elected officers flags are blue, red or white with contrasting
white or blue tridents. Appointed
officers are swallow-tailed or triangular.
They are flown day or night from the masthead of a signal mast on a
powerboat and at the masthead of a single masted sailboat or the aftermost
masthead on a two-masted sailboat. If
the boat does not have a signal mast it may be flown from a radio antenna singly
or below the USPS Ensign.
When
visiting another country (e.g. Canada) it is courteous to display their National
Ensign from either the bow staff or the starboard spreader. In this instance the USPS Ensign may be flown at the port
spreader with the U.S. Ensign at the stern staff and the foreign flag at the
starboard spreader.