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image by Rob Raeside, 15 December 2018
Estb: 1926. Location: Bellerive, TAS.
Burgee: Pennant circa 4:11 (web
image).
Source: accessed 14 December 2018,
https://byc.org.au/index.php/about-byc/about-us
"The Club Burgee shall
be white and triangular in shape with a blue horizontal and a blue vertical bar,
centred on the burgee with a red diamond at the centre of the cross formed by
the bars." Constitution and Rules, June 2017.
Source: accessed 14 December
2018,
https://www.byc.org.au/images/PDF/BYC%20Constitution%20revision%202017.pdf
"By the early 1900s the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, the Derwent
Sailing Squadron, and the Sandy Bay Sailing Club were taking shape as the hubs
of yacht racing in the south. A little later, in 1926, the Bellerive Yacht Club
was established." Greg Peart, "Companion to Tasmanian History."
Source:
accessed 14 December 2018,
http://www.utas.edu.au/tasmanian-companion/biogs/E001097b.htm
Peter
Edwards, 15 December 2018
"CLUB BURGEE
6.
The Club Burgee shall be white and triangular in shape
with a blue horizontal and a blue vertical bar, centred on the burgee with a red
diamond at the centre of the cross formed by the bars."
"FLAG OFFICER’S
PENNANTS
9.
The Commodore’s pennant shall consist of the Club burgee with
a swallowtail. Other Flag Officer’s pennants will be similar to the Commodore’s
with the addition of the following distinguishing features: the Vice-Commodore’s
shall have one red ball in the left-hand upper canton and the Rear-Commodore’s
shall have two red balls placed horizontally in the left-hand upper canton. A
Past Commodore’s pennant shall be similar to the Commodore’s with the letter “R”
in red in the lower left-hand canton."
It's surprising to see that the
main charge is not a cross, but rather two bars forming a cross. OTOH, it's rare
to see officers flags that are well enough defined to at least have the
locations of the balls specified.
I wonder about the ratio of the
pennant, though: 4:11 is really long for a club standard. I wonder whether
Bellerive Yacht Club can tell us anything about the burgees and officers' flags
actually in use.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 19 February 2019