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If you found this blog via a link from a cruising site ~ we did cruise Mexico on our Ocean 49 cat for a season. See the first text box on the right for links to our preparations, trip down Baja, life in Mexico, cruising and trip back up to SoCal. Unfortunately we are back to the grind in the USA...

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Mexican Courtesy Flags

When you sail into a foreign country, you fly that country's flag on your boat as a "courtesy".

This is what the Mexican courtesy flag "should" look like (this is the flag on "Meerkat" of course).Well, after your boat has been sitting in the tropical sun for awhile, the flag might look a little different...
Or get stuck on something...Sometimes the flags fade to French...Or an odd shade of turquoise (what country is this?)...But most of the time they just get "holey"...








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1 comment:

Elizabeth said...

Not very courteous to be flying a flag that looks like someone's old holey underwear flapping in the breeze!