Flag pole

thinking about ways to make a wooden flag pole with a crossarm, like a wooden mast on a old time sailing ship, would love to find a wrecked boat and get one

want to hang nautical flags from the arms and American flag at the top, installed at my dock, 25-35 feet tall

thoughts?

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You want a flagpole with yardarms. With that kind of height, it sounds like you’d need a telephone pole. Figure out at what height you want the yardarm, drill through the yardarm and the support post and attach with large galvanized carriage bolts. Some type of u-bolt would be good but not sure where you would find one that big. I am sure some of our CF experts will be along shortly to help out. Sounds like a neat idea, good luck.

DF; Your right on the telephone pole. Something that tall will need to be anchored in the mud and not just on top of the deck either. The yard arm will give Gulls a place to sit and crap all over the deck.:roll_eyes::angry:[:0]

http://www.flagpolesetc.com/flagpoles/nautical-flagpoles/nautical-double-mast-flagpoles.html

These are aluminum…

looked at the commercially available products and don’t have that kind of money, want to build something for fun

thought about the utility pole but want one fairly slim, need to see what is available, they are in the $300 range

thought about a couple 6x6’s lapped and bolted then taper them down,
I’ve got the tools and can do the work

didn’t think about the bird crap issue, that’s a problem, this is on Lake Murray, have a hard rock bottom to stand the pole and a way to attach it to the dock

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Don’t know how high you want the pole but you can get just the top peice of the light/phone poll and use that.There is a plant out here in Walterboro that does the poles for the light company.They are located at the corner of Sydneis Rd and Hwy 17-A right across the street from the Forks PitStop gas station.

Double D.

Woo Hoo - virtually finished, got a little trim work but that’s it.

found a pole place in Leesville that has poles for dock builders, most pole places don’t have them this skinny, 7" base, 5" top, 30’ tall

used a 4x4 for the yardarm and tapered it to the ends, Jason at Carolina Flag and Banner in Charleston was a great help

the flag is 3’ x 5’, plan to get a larger one

Pioneer 197SF

Looks good! Nice job:smiley:

That is excellent!!! Nice job.

Dorado II
Carolina Skiff 25DLV

Impressive…excellent job!!!

Your not done with the job until you get one of these.http://www.dockandboatstore.com/servlet/the-30/yachting-captain-hat-cap/Detail:smiley:

Very nice, looks great!

“Apathy is the Glove in Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”.

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Originally posted by Easy

Your not done with the job until you get one of these.http://www.dockandboatstore.com/servlet/the-30/yachting-captain-hat-cap/Detail:smiley:


we have a redneck yacht club, bathing suits and beers - no fancy hats allowed :smiley:

Pioneer 197SF

Outstanding!!

Stonoman

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Originally posted by Blueskyguy

… Jason at Carolina Flag and Banner in Charleston was a great help.


</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>Cool. I know what the American flag says but, what do the other ‘nautical’ flags say? I can only read about two (or maybe one) of them.

I salute you and the Flag

Woodfloats?

Bluesky, where is that? Looks like upper end of the lake?

'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki

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Originally posted by striperskiff

Bluesky, where is that? Looks like upper end of the lake?

'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki


off 378 at County Line store, Holley Ferry Rd, in the cove where SCE&G ramp #3 is located, only dock in the area with a gazebo with green metal roofing

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Originally posted by stonoman

Outstanding!!

Stonoman


S-man - one of these days I’ll make it to Wednesday lunch, look forward to meeting some of the Charleston crowd

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How did you raise it? I don’t think you walked it up like an extension ladder!