LETTERS
Sep 08, 2022
2 minutes
Prepare the tar
re nautical standards slipping? Maybe they’re just evolving? There was a time when yacht ensigns were ‘dipped’ to Royal Naval vessels, and the Navy was expected to ‘dip’ in return as a matter of courtesy and etiquette, up and down like a fiddlers elbow! Yacht ensigns were withdrawn at dusk and replaced at dawn and any miscreants were frowned upon. I must confess
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