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Orange flag recommendations
- Thread starter buckbuck
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jawsf16
Jetboaters Admiral
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Airhead flag and holder is what I use...
http://www.airhead.com/watersports-flag-holder-wakeboard-tower.html
I found a good deal on it at Sears online.
http://www.airhead.com/watersports-flag-holder-wakeboard-tower.html
I found a good deal on it at Sears online.
Jim Robeson
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Does Illinois require you to have the flag up if you're pulling a skier or tuber?? Missouri only requires the orange flag up whenever you are stopped and there is someone in the water. It comes down when you get under way again.
Speedling
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Indiana doesn't have such laws as far as I know, but I think that if my kids are out there, I would just fly the flag anyways.
Boat Crazy
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I recommend having at least one extra orange flag (El cheapo type) on board for the time the holder of the flag loses it.
aarons1k
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KXCam22
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I had to buy one when boating in Washington, flag up when people in the water. A nice guy with a gun and a star on his jetski pulled us over to tell us that. We don't have that law in BC. Good idea though if the lake is crowded. A spare is a good idea. Cam.
sysinu
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I see people w/ the airhead tower mount flag holder and the flag inserted driving around with it in all the time. We have that law in Utah as well, to have a skier down flag raised whenever there is a skier down. No one raises it when the skier is down, they just always leave it up (or so it seems).
GTBRMC
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Damned orange flag suppliers lobby!
soggyshoes
Jet Boat Addict
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Be careful leaving it up all the time. Some jurisdictions you are to only have the flag up when a person or object (such as a rope) is in the water and not being towed.
Here is Oregon's law ( http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/830.365 ):
Here is Oregon's law ( http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/830.365 ):
No person shall operate any boat used for towing water skis, surfboards or similar devices on the waters of this state unless the boat is equipped with and displays a warning flag as follows:
(a) The warning flag, also known as the skier down flag, shall be international orange or red in color and shall be at least 12 inches in height and 12 inches in width.
(b) When any person being towed by the boat becomes disengaged from the towline and is down in the water, a person in the boat shall immediately display the warning flag aloft, visible from all sides, as an indicator to other boats in the area that a person is down in the water. As long as the downed person is in the water, the flag shall remain displayed to prevent danger to that person and hazards to passing boats.
(c) The warning flag described in this section shall be displayed only under the conditions set forth in paragraph (b) of this subsection or when other imminent danger exists. [Formerly 488.144 [bad link]; 1993 c.589 §1]
(b) When any person being towed by the boat becomes disengaged from the towline and is down in the water, a person in the boat shall immediately display the warning flag aloft, visible from all sides, as an indicator to other boats in the area that a person is down in the water. As long as the downed person is in the water, the flag shall remain displayed to prevent danger to that person and hazards to passing boats.
(c) The warning flag described in this section shall be displayed only under the conditions set forth in paragraph (b) of this subsection or when other imminent danger exists. [Formerly 488.144 [bad link]; 1993 c.589 §1]
