Signal flags: your boat name in flags
Every letter has its own flag at sea, and flown alone each flag says a whole sentence. Type in your boat name: the signal flags fly as a line of flags, and one click turns them into a picture to share or print.
Your boat name in flags
Accented letters are written plain. Numbers have their own pennants and are left out here.
All 26 flags and what they mean
Flown alone, each letter flag is a single-letter signal from the International Code of Signals.
Flag quiz
Which flag is flying here?
When leisure skippers need flags
The yellow Q tells the harbour you still have to clear in, for instance after a passage from outside the area you are entering. On a race course the racing rules give some flags their own meaning: P is the preparatory signal and X the individual recall.
For celebrations a boat is dressed overall, every flag on one line from the bow over the masthead to the stern. And anyone who sees or hoists O thinks of the most important signal of all: man overboard.
