custom burgees

[Ken Buck]

Has anyone found a good source for small custom burgees? So far I've stumbled over a number of places that will make custom flags and burgees, but the minimum order and/or price per item tend to be on the high side. Assume we're talking about a small burgee, maybe 10"x15" or so, and a relatively small order, printed white on various solid background colors. Anyone investigated this for yourself or for your group? Thanks...

[Ken Buck]

Has anyone found a good source for small custom burgees? So far I've stumbled over a number of places that will make custom flags and burgees, but the minimum order and/or price per item tend to be on the high side. Assume we're talking about a small burgee, maybe 10"x15" or so, and a relatively small order, printed white on various solid background colors. Anyone investigated this for yourself or for your group? Thanks...

[Ken Buck]

Has anyone found a good source for small custom burgees? So far I've stumbled over a number of places that will make custom flags and burgees, but the minimum order and/or price per item tend to be on the high side. Assume we're talking about a small burgee, maybe 10"x15" or so, and a relatively small order, printed white on various solid background colors. Anyone investigated this for yourself or for your group? Thanks...

[Ian McColgin]

Yeah, silk screening etc are pricey in small amounts.

Since the proper design is both simple and completely reversable so if stitched up from different fabrics it will look right from each side.

Depending on your design, a couple of sewing tricks could save the day. They work nicely for small runs as the fabric wasteage is not such an issue as it would be for large scale commercial work. The following is for designs with curved components and assumes that you're not prepared to attack the burgee with the same gusto that you'd use for running up a new sailing smock out of an old sail.

Let's say you've a very simple design, like our Kedgers' Club burgee which is simply a white upside down fisherman style anchor silloette on a blue field.

Tape some light white material that is easily cut in curves, like dacron, on the field on each side. Draw the anchor on the white stuff. Stitch to the lines. Cut out the part that's not the anchor.

If you want to be a tad classier. Cut your anchor out 1/2 the seam width too large. Attach to the field - double stick tape is the very staff of life.

Put a stitch line down the center of the seam.

Carefully mark on the field side the anchor but this time 1/2 seam width small. Cut to your line without cutting into the white of the design.

Fold and rub the edges in and down so the raw edge is hidde. A bit more double stick is nice here.

Stitch on each fold.

G'luck.

[Ian McColgin]

Yeah, silk screening etc are pricey in small amounts.

Since the proper design is both simple and completely reversable so if stitched up from different fabrics it will look right from each side.

Depending on your design, a couple of sewing tricks could save the day. They work nicely for small runs as the fabric wasteage is not such an issue as it would be for large scale commercial work. The following is for designs with curved components and assumes that you're not prepared to attack the burgee with the same gusto that you'd use for running up a new sailing smock out of an old sail.

Let's say you've a very simple design, like our Kedgers' Club burgee which is simply a white upside down fisherman style anchor silloette on a blue field.

Tape some light white material that is easily cut in curves, like dacron, on the field on each side. Draw the anchor on the white stuff. Stitch to the lines. Cut out the part that's not the anchor.

If you want to be a tad classier. Cut your anchor out 1/2 the seam width too large. Attach to the field - double stick tape is the very staff of life.

Put a stitch line down the center of the seam.

Carefully mark on the field side the anchor but this time 1/2 seam width small. Cut to your line without cutting into the white of the design.

Fold and rub the edges in and down so the raw edge is hidde. A bit more double stick is nice here.

Stitch on each fold.

G'luck.

[Ian McColgin]

Yeah, silk screening etc are pricey in small amounts.

Since the proper design is both simple and completely reversable so if stitched up from different fabrics it will look right from each side.

Depending on your design, a couple of sewing tricks could save the day. They work nicely for small runs as the fabric wasteage is not such an issue as it would be for large scale commercial work. The following is for designs with curved components and assumes that you're not prepared to attack the burgee with the same gusto that you'd use for running up a new sailing smock out of an old sail.

Let's say you've a very simple design, like our Kedgers' Club burgee which is simply a white upside down fisherman style anchor silloette on a blue field.

Tape some light white material that is easily cut in curves, like dacron, on the field on each side. Draw the anchor on the white stuff. Stitch to the lines. Cut out the part that's not the anchor.

If you want to be a tad classier. Cut your anchor out 1/2 the seam width too large. Attach to the field - double stick tape is the very staff of life.

Put a stitch line down the center of the seam.

Carefully mark on the field side the anchor but this time 1/2 seam width small. Cut to your line without cutting into the white of the design.

Fold and rub the edges in and down so the raw edge is hidde. A bit more double stick is nice here.

Stitch on each fold.

G'luck.

[Andreas Jordahl Rhude]

Dorothy Kaulser at Tomahawk, WI makes pennants for Thompson and Cruisers, Inc. boats, to the old 1950s - 1960s design. Maybe she'd be willing to make custom ones. She has an ad at: www.thompsondockside.com (http://www.thompsondockside.com) in the "Boathouse" section.

[Andreas Jordahl Rhude]

Dorothy Kaulser at Tomahawk, WI makes pennants for Thompson and Cruisers, Inc. boats, to the old 1950s - 1960s design. Maybe she'd be willing to make custom ones. She has an ad at: www.thompsondockside.com (http://www.thompsondockside.com) in the "Boathouse" section.

[Andreas Jordahl Rhude]

Dorothy Kaulser at Tomahawk, WI makes pennants for Thompson and Cruisers, Inc. boats, to the old 1950s - 1960s design. Maybe she'd be willing to make custom ones. She has an ad at: www.thompsondockside.com (http://www.thompsondockside.com) in the "Boathouse" section.

[Todd Schliemann]

If you think you will need a few repeats of your burgee, which you will if you fly them a bit in sun and a little weather, you might try these folks, Prestige Flag. This is where we get all of our club burgees. They aren't cheap but are made very well, stitched strongly and up to professional standard. They will take a beatin' and keep on flappin'. They keep your design on file and will produce more to the same spec's years later, if need be. I redesigned our house flag years ago and have gone back several times for more.

http://www.prestigeflag.com/yacht/yachtcatalog_custom.html

By the way, the thing that I have found that wears out first is the color. Dark colors just don't last long.

I use to get small Italian ensign's from Italy for my wife. They were made of cloth and printed with the four-naval-states emblem in the center. These flags lasted ten times as long as any other flag I have ever flown, both the color fastness and the sewn edges. I haven't a clue what they are made of or how they are printed but they are VERY durable. If I could get a company to make American ensigns for my transom like those little Italian ones I wouldn't need to buy a new one every two years.

[Todd Schliemann]

If you think you will need a few repeats of your burgee, which you will if you fly them a bit in sun and a little weather, you might try these folks, Prestige Flag. This is where we get all of our club burgees. They aren't cheap but are made very well, stitched strongly and up to professional standard. They will take a beatin' and keep on flappin'. They keep your design on file and will produce more to the same spec's years later, if need be. I redesigned our house flag years ago and have gone back several times for more.

http://www.prestigeflag.com/yacht/yachtcatalog_custom.html

By the way, the thing that I have found that wears out first is the color. Dark colors just don't last long.

I use to get small Italian ensign's from Italy for my wife. They were made of cloth and printed with the four-naval-states emblem in the center. These flags lasted ten times as long as any other flag I have ever flown, both the color fastness and the sewn edges. I haven't a clue what they are made of or how they are printed but they are VERY durable. If I could get a company to make American ensigns for my transom like those little Italian ones I wouldn't need to buy a new one every two years.

[Todd Schliemann]

If you think you will need a few repeats of your burgee, which you will if you fly them a bit in sun and a little weather, you might try these folks, Prestige Flag. This is where we get all of our club burgees. They aren't cheap but are made very well, stitched strongly and up to professional standard. They will take a beatin' and keep on flappin'. They keep your design on file and will produce more to the same spec's years later, if need be. I redesigned our house flag years ago and have gone back several times for more.

http://www.prestigeflag.com/yacht/yachtcatalog_custom.html

By the way, the thing that I have found that wears out first is the color. Dark colors just don't last long.

I use to get small Italian ensign's from Italy for my wife. They were made of cloth and printed with the four-naval-states emblem in the center. These flags lasted ten times as long as any other flag I have ever flown, both the color fastness and the sewn edges. I haven't a clue what they are made of or how they are printed but they are VERY durable. If I could get a company to make American ensigns for my transom like those little Italian ones I wouldn't need to buy a new one every two years.

[Wooden Boat Fittings]

Fully sewn and appliquéd flags, burgees, pennants --

http://ourhouse.ninemsn.com.au/ourhouse/factsheets/db/gizmosandgadgets/02/204.asp

No website, but contact details at bottom of page. Talk to John Jukes. Quality product.

[Wooden Boat Fittings]

Fully sewn and appliquéd flags, burgees, pennants --

http://ourhouse.ninemsn.com.au/ourhouse/factsheets/db/gizmosandgadgets/02/204.asp

No website, but contact details at bottom of page. Talk to John Jukes. Quality product.

[Wooden Boat Fittings]

Fully sewn and appliquéd flags, burgees, pennants --

http://ourhouse.ninemsn.com.au/ourhouse/factsheets/db/gizmosandgadgets/02/204.asp

No website, but contact details at bottom of page. Talk to John Jukes. Quality product.