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![[Pennant of the St. Gallischer Yacht Club]](../images/c/ch~sgyc.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache
St. Gallischer Yacht Club (SGYC) is based in Rorschach, on the southern
shore of Lake Constance.
The burgee of SGYC is red with a green pairle
outlined in white.
http://www.sgyc.ch/
SGYC website
Ivan Sache, 19 April 2018
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Brienzersee ]](../images/c/ch~be@bs.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of the Segelclub Brienzersee can be found as a large
scale drawing on the pages of the club's websites,
http://www.scb.ch.gg/ and
http://sc-brienzersee.npage.de/.
It's a blue triangular burgee, 4:7, with a narrow yellow border and an even
more narrow flywise yellow centre line, the latter interrupted by a blue
disk fimbriated yellow bearing a yellow emblem. The emblem consists of the
letters "scb", forming the body of a sailing boat, with the "b" forming the
mast, with on it a sail, and the bow, and the "s" forming the stern, from
which the lower line continues as the boat's wake.
Segelclub
Brienzersee (SCB), Lake Brienz Sailing Club, is a sailing club that probably
has Lake Brienz as its home waters, and as the entire lake is in Canton
Bern, I expect the club is in that canton as well. The club's webpages are
very short on general information.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 November 2013
![[Pennant of the Segel Club Cham]](../images/c/ch~zh@sc.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
A photograph of the burgee of the Segel Club Cham can be seen in the
club's shop, http://www.scc.ch/shop,
and the site includes various graphics as well. The club's statutes (http://www.scc.ch/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/Statuten-Segel-Club-Cham.pdf)
describe it as:
"Farben § 4
Die Farben des SCC sind: blauer
Wappenmantel mit rotem Balken und einem weissen fünfzackigen Stern im ersten
Drittel der Basis."
Something like:
(Colours $ 4
The colours of the
SCC are: Blue coat with red stripe an a white five-pointed star in the first
third of the base.)
I can't match "in the first third of the base"
with any of the images, so I've mostly followed the photograph instead. I
made it a triangular 3:5 blue burgee with a lengthwise red stripe, with over
all a white five-pointed star, pointing towards the hoist. I used a stripe,
1/6th the height of the hoist in width, and a star constructed within a
circle half the height of the flag in diameter. I placed the star with its
centre half the height of the hoist from the hoist. As a logo, the burgee is
also used with an upright star.
The description in the statutes might
tell us more, if understood correctly. It might be that the intention is
that the star is much closer to the hoist, but an older illustration would
be needed to verify that.
The Segel Club Cham (SCC),
Cham Sailing Club, started its life as the
Cham Group of the Segelgilde Zugersee, the latter having been founded in
1942 in Cham and the two groups having been formed in 1943. As the groups
grew larger, in 1947 they became independent. Thus 22 March 1947 the Segel
Club Cham came into existence. The club has always been located at
Cham, in the northwest corner of Lake Zug. The
SCC aims for sailors to actively sail their boats. For this they educate
young and old, and since moorings are limited the club also encourages joint
use of boats.
Their predecessor, the Segelgilde Zugersee, had a
burgee as well. It may be this was the burgee used today by the Segel Club
Cham, but so far I've not heard from either club to confirm or deny that.
I've not been able to find other information on the SGZ so far either.
Considering the burgees of the two clubs, it would seem likely that the
burgee of the SGZ contained a five-pointed star.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segel-Club Enge]](../images/c/ch~zh@se.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of Segel-Club Enge can be found as drawings at several pages of
the club website, like
http://www.segelclubenge.ch and
http://www.segelclubenge.ch/dokumente/YWB_09_DYN.html. A photo can be
found in the club shop:
http://www.segelclubenge.ch/images/shop. As all these differ, I've tried to
find a middle ground: A triangular 3:5 blue field with a red and yellow lying T,
with the width of the arms of the T being 1/3 of the length of the hoist, and
the yellow making up the centre half of each arm. What the meaning of these
yellow crossing lines fimbriated red on a blue field is, I don't know, but at
least three other clubs on the Zürichsee have such a design. The burgee was
designed by Walter Frey, and probably adopted on 9 April 1937 as the club was
founded.
A text on the 75 year jubilee (http://www.segelclubenge.ch/dokumente/Jubilar.pdf)
shows quite a different flag as club house flag. It's a high flag, at least 5:1,
white, with at the top a depiction of the burgee, and along the fly edge "SCE
Segel-Club Enge" in sans all caps, the first three letters black and almost half
as high as the flag is deep, the rest in smaller grey letters.
The Segel-Club
Enge (SCE) is, as the name indicates, located in Enge,
on the west coast of the Zürichsee. In the Spring 1937 almost all sailing
members of the Segel- und Motorbootclub Zürich left that club because they felt
the club was obstructing them. On 9 April 1937 22 members founded the Segelclub
Enge. The membership has since grown to more than 400, making the SCE one of the
larger clubs in Switzerland.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 26 September 2013
![[Pennant of the Segel Club Männedorf]](../images/c/ch~zh@sm.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
In the first year of the existence of Segel Club Männedorf, the club's burgee
was designed by W. Pfister jr. No formal adoption is mentioned, but the burgee
is described in the statutes. It's shown as a graphic on the club website (http://www.segelclub.ch),
is visible on a photograph (http://www.segelclub.ch/regatten/2005/ZuerichseeCup05_Winner.JPG),
and is in use as a logo on the club documents (http://www.segelclub.ch/kontakt/Interessenten/Statuten_2007.pdf).
The burgee is a triangular 2:3 flag, with 9 black and yellow tapering stripes,
the outer ones half the width of the others, charged with a counter-changed
silhouette of a main sail and spinnaker.
According to the statutes:
"15. Stander Der Clubstander des SCMd ist in den Gemeindefarben gelb und
schwarz gehalten, in dem gelbe und schwarze Streifen alternierend in der
Spitze des Standers zusammenlaufen. Durch Versetzen der Streifen entsteht das
Bild eines stilisierten Grosssegels mit Spinnaker."
(15. Burgee The club
burgee of the SCMd was kept in the Municipal colours, by having alternating
yellow and black stripes converge in the tip of the burgee. Through
displacement of the stripes an image of a stylised main sail and spinnaker
emerges.)
Segel Club Männedorf (SCMd) is located in
Männedorf,
directly on the water. This places it more or less in the middle of the
Zürichsee, with an superb view of the lake. The club was founded on 24 May
1973, with the obvious intention to take part in competitive sailing.
Currently it has approximately 350 members, and competitive sailing is still
a large part of the club's activity (No reason is given for the unusual "Segel
Club", rather than "Segelclub").
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 September 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Neuhaus-Interlaken]](../images/c/ch~be@ni.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of Segelclub Neuhaus-Interlaken is only visible as graphics on
their website, http://www.scni.ch, where it is
drawn as a 3:5 triangle with a yellow field with a wide blue border around it,
and over both shaped black letters "SCNI", and around the entire design a narrow
yellow border. There are, however, slight variations between the drawings.
Segelclub Neuhaus-Interlaken (SCNI), Neuhaus-Interlaken Sailing Club, is
located in Interlaken though at Neuhaus, which is on
the Lake Thun shore. The club was founded 27 April 1972, and makes a point of
not targeting a specific type of member, other than people who enjoy sailing.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 November 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Oberer Zürichsee]](../images/c/ch~sz@oz.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
A graphic of the burgee of the Segelclub Oberer Zürichsee can be found on the
pages of the club's website. A photo of it
can be seen in a list of Zürichsee-Segelverbandes (1976) burgees (http://www.scoz.ch/index.jsp?nodeId=11483).
Apparently it's a 3:5 triangle, with a white sail-like shape separating the red
upper hoist from the blue field. At the foot of the shape a yellow circle.
André Cemin, president of the SCOZ, let me know that "the flag shows you the
view from the top of the mast (Yellow dot) dawn on the foresail (jib-white) to
the water (blue). The red partition on the top left together with the white sail
also resembles the official colors of the Swiss National Flag as well as the
colors of the Swiss district (Canton of Schwyz) where the SCOZ is home based."
The burgee was designed in
1974 by Hans Uster, one of the founders of the SCOZ.
The Segelclub Oberer
Zürichsee (SCOZ) was founded in 1974. The club has the Obersee as its home
waters, and the Yachthafen Kiebitz in Nuolen, Wangen
commune, as its home harbour. Primarily the club members sail recreational
on the lake's waters, but they also sail competitive, there and elsewhere in
Switzerland, and a growing number also sail the seas.
Other flags:
– Harbour feast photographs show a
KIBAG pennant, whatever that is. [A nearby company that mines gravel]
– At
http://www.scoz.ch/NeoDownload?docId=403687 I encountered a mention that the
club's rescue boats are marked with an orange flag. I don't know whether this is
club-specific or general for all of Switzerland, though.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Pfäffikon SZ]](../images/c/ch~sz@sp.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
With the help of Cornelia Kegele of the SCPF I was able to put together the
following report:
A drawing of the Segelclub Pfäffikon SZ burgee at good
resolution can be found at the club website at
http://www.scpf.ch/clubdesk/fileservlet?type=image&inline=true&id=1000000,
though I could not find the page it is linked from. It's an approximately 3:7
triangular blue field with a yellow off-set cross fimbriated red.
The
Segelclub Pfäffikon SZ (SCPF) was founded on 24 October 1963. The burgee was
created shortly after the foundation of the club. The members of the
Segler-Vereinigung Thalwil protested against the design, however, as their
burgee already had a blue field with a cross and crossing yellow stripes
fimbriated red. However, the SCPF decided to keep the design as it was.
The club's home-town is Pfäffikon in Freienbach next
to the Seedamm. The SCDF club house is in the former brickworks, and the club
built itself a harbour on the south shore of the Zürichsee. There, a club flag
flies from a flag mast on the pier, with the same design as the burgee as that's
the only flag design the club uses. The SCPF currently has about a hundred
members.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Rietli Goldach]](../images/c/ch~scr.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache
Segelclub Rietli Goldach (SCR) was established on 15 August 1944 in the
Rietli restaurant in Goldach (Saint-Gall), on the southern shore of Lake
Constance.
The burgee of SCR, adopted in 1944, is horizontally divided
into three blue, white and green triangles converging to the flag's point; the
blue letter "SCR" are placed in the white triangle.
http://www.scrietli.ch/ (SCR website)
Ivan Sache, 19 April 2018
