Best Burgee

We buy a "job lot" in Guildford Marine's sale twice a year. 20% off. Sailing on a shallow pond we get through a lot of burgees in a year - of course it would help if we just sailed our boats the right way up!

Originally posted by tmoore .... i just take it home and pour some boiling water on to the rod and it straightens itself back to the original shape. tom

Sounds like the same metal they make some glasses from these days - 'memory metal'. 

my dad managed to get a piece of wire to replace the metal rod holding the burgee onto the mast. if i ever capsize or bend the burgee (normally whilst trying to get it on to the mast) then i just take it home and pour some boiling water on to the rod and it straightens itself back to the original shape.

not sure where you would get these from as he is a chemical engineer and so has access to this type of thing. surely there would be somewhere on the interent where you can get these. they might be expensive but it theoretically lasts forever.

tom

what boat do you sail? different burgees work better in different boats. personally i dont use one at all in double handers and only use a wind indicator on the front of the mast in single handers, again i rarely use it, its far more effective to keep an eye on the tell tales

Depending on the boat you could screw your burgee mount onto the mainsail headboard, then at least it's easily replaced, and can be stored out of the sun. The problem is you can do a right annoying thing and get the burgee snagged between the mast and halyard where it promptly knackers itself.