The Flag Locker

Say it with flags.

AWOOGA’s horn has exactly one volume. For everything else, sailors invented the International Code of Signals, a 26-flag alphabet that’s been the sea’s emoji set since 1857. Every flag is a letter, and every flag flown alone is a whole sentence. One of them means “I require a tug.” Guess which page found that funny.

Run it up the halyard

Hoist a message

Type anything (your name, a greeting, a strongly-held opinion about tugboats) and she’ll fly it in proper code flags. Then check below: every letter you used is also broadcasting its own official one-flag message to the whole harbor.

Quick hoists:

Letters and spaces only, 18 flags to a hoist. A real signal halyard would run out of rope too. Numbers use separate pennants, and real ships rarely spell words letter-by-letter; they use one- and two-flag codes so nobody has to stand there all afternoon.

Alfa to Zulu

The whole locker

All 26 flags, exactly as the code draws them, each with its official solo meaning and AWOOGA’s reading of the situation. Tap any card to add that flag to your hoist above.

Greatest hits

Famous hoists

A few flag signals that earned a reputation. Tap one to fly it yourself.