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• Christianshavns Bådelaug (Christianshavn Boat Guild)
• Sejlklubben Christianshavn (The Christianshavn Sailing Club)
• Søspejderne af det Danske Spejderkorps (The Sea Scouts of the Danish Scout Corps)
• Søspejderne af det K.F.U.M. (The Sea Scouts of the YMCA)
• Københavns Amatør Sejlklub (Copenhagen Amateur Sailing Club)
• København Kvindelig Sejlklub (Copenhagen Women´s Sailing Club)
• Københavns Motor Yachtklub (Motor Yacht Club of Copenhagen)
• Sejlklubben København (The Copenhagen Sailing Club)
• SAS Sejlklub (SAS Sailing Club)
• Søværnets IF Sejlsportsafdeling (Sailing department of the Navy Sports Club)
• Søværnets Sejlsportsudvalg (Sailing Committee of the Navy)
• Sundby Sejlforening (Sundby Sailing Association)
• Sejlklubben Sundet (The Sailing Club The Sound)
• Sejlklub Suset Hvidovre (Sailing Club Suset Hvidovre)
• Træskibs Sammenslutningen (Wooden Ship Union)
• Bådforeningen Trekanten (Boat Association The Triangle)
• Bådklubben Valby (Valby Boat Club)
• Motorbådsklubben West (The Motor Boat Club West)

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Christianshavns Bådelaug

The pennant is red at fly and white at hoist horizontally parted blue-white-red-white-blue. Christianshavn is the part of København located on Amager Island around the Church of our saviour with the famous outside stairs at its spire. Also in that suburb is the Christiania Free Town.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.2, row 1, column 2
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Mar 2021

Sejlklubben ChristianshavnThe Christianshavn Sailing Club

The pennant is blue. At hoist is a white octagon open to hoist with seven white annexes. The figure is a stylised depiction of the fortress walls alongside the Satdsgraven, a moat. On Christianshavn are located the Opera and Christiania Freetown. The suburb was built on an artificial island by King Christian IV in the 17th century.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.2, row 1, column 1
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2025

Søspejderne af det Danske Spejderkorps

image by Joe McMillan, 9 Feb 2000

image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Mar 2021

The Danish Scout Corps (Det Danske Spejderkorps) is not affiliated with any church community, but is nevertheless obliged to develop the scout spiritually according to the scouting movement.
The Danish Scout Corps was founded on 16 December 1910, but its first patrol took place at Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium on 20 November 1909 under adult leadership of Headmaster Hartvig-Møller, one of its founders. The Danish Girl Scout Corps (Det Danske Pigespejderkorps) has always regarded 10 October 1910 as its "birthday", since that day a girl patrol was set up in Frederiksberg "boys troop". The corps was united with The Danish (Boy) Scout Corps on 1 January 1973.
The organisation is Denmark"s largest scouting organisation for children and young people of both sexes and is a member of the Boy Scouts WOSM and the Girl Scouts" world organisations WAGGGS. It had nearly 36,000 members in 2016. Its seat is in København K (Central Copenhagen)
It is a state ensign with golden anchor on golden scout lily and was approved by royal resolution of 17 February 1949.
Source: organisation webpage
Joe McMillan, 9 Feb 2000 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Mar 2021

Søspejderne af det K.F.U.M.

It is a state ensign with golden anchor, superimposed by a golden lily, superimposed by a golden triangle, approved by royal resolution on 21 February 1950. The lily is the symbol of scouts, the anchor gives the naval touch and the triangle is the symbol of YMCA (Danish: KFUM)
Source: Pedersen 1979, p.167
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 Mar 2021

Københavns Amatør Sejlklub

It is a white pennant with a off-centred red cross and a red star in canton.
Source: spotted on 15 June 2016 by Klaus-Michael Schneider
Ivan Sache, 8 May 2000

København Kvindelig Sejlklub

The pennant is white cotised red-white, shifted to hoist is a red trident flanked by red letters "K" (hoist), "v" (bottom) and "S" (fly). The name of the club is literally "female sailing club".
Source: Pennant Chart, p.5, row 4, column 4
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Mar 2021

Københavns Motor Yachtklub

The pennant is parted per chevron pointing to hoist, at hoist white with the towers of the Copenhagen city arms superimposing an anchor all blue, at fly simply red.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.5, row 5, column 2
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 4 Mar 2021

Sejlklubben København

The pennant is parted by a white sail into dark blue at hoist and dark red (orlogsrød) at fly.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.5, row 5, column 1
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Mar 2021

SAS Sejlklub

The club is based in København. The pennant is white charged with an rudder of blue and red.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.8, row 1, column 2
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2025

Søværnets IF Sejlsportsafdeling

The pennant is blue with a golden fowl anchor with white rope under a royal crown. The club is based in København.
Source:

Søværnets Sejlsportsudvalg

The pennant is red with a golden fowl anchor with white rope under a royal crown. The club is based in København. Perhaps the club has merged with Søvrnets IF after 2014.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.9, row 6, column 4
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2025

Sundby Sejlforening

Sundby has a sailing club, appropriately known locally as Sundby Sejlforening, which by analogy with other Germanic languages I´d guess means Sundby Sailing Association. It has a triangular flag consisting of a pentagonal white area at the hoist charged with a red 5-point star and the rest being red.
Source: club website
Jorge Candeias, 6 Aug 2005

Sejlklubben Sundet

The pennant is parted per chevron pointing to hoist of red and white. The red partition is charged with two yellow 5-point stars in pale alongside the hoist.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.9, row 1, column 3
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2025

Sejlklub Suset Hvidovre

The pennant is white parted by a red horizontal line, shifted to hoist interrupted by a yellow fowl anchor fimbriated blue.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.4, row 6, column 2
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2021

Træskibs Sammenslutningen

Not a yacht club burgee, but also in the sejler leksikon, Træskibs Sammenslutningen has a webpage here. A white pennant with a black "virgin block" representing the interests of the heritage of wooden ships, and their owners/preservers.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 Aug 2001

Træskibs Sammenslutningen (Vintage Wooden Ship Union) has a banner flying in several Danish harbour-areas and marinas. I found a little copy off it online and reconstructed a better and bigger version of the significant banner. Just to say, there´ll be no copyright problems publishing this graphic on your website, if you want to. I hereby give flagspot.net full rights to use my graphic :-)
Kenneth Ley Milling, 2 June 2012

On occasion I tried to create an image for this, but failed to create something I found convincing enough to share. His image is much better, with a jomfrublok that looks convincingly like the one used by Træskibs Sammenslutningen. Though at the time I was unable to give a translation beyond the literal "virgin block", over the decade since then I´ve learned that in English this part of the rigging is called a triple deadeye.
The link we have, by the way, is outdated and should now go to this page.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 3 June 2012

Bådforeningen Trekanten

The club was probably established as Foreningen Trekanten, as the white pennant shows a blue triangle flanked by blue initials "F" (hoist, bigger) and "T" (fly).
Source: Pennant Chart, p.9, row 9, column 1
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2021 2025

Bådklubben Valby

The pennant is parted into red (hoist) and white (fly) by blue chevron pointing to hoist. The pennant has blue edges and a blue inscription "BKV" with the "K" annexed by the chevron. Valby is a suburb of København exactly west from the centre at the continuation of Vesterbrogade.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.10, row 1, column 4
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2021

Motorbådsklubben West

The pennant is white, with a full height red triangle issuant from hoist containing a white initial "W".
Source: Pennant Chart, p.10, row 6, column 3
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 3 Aug 2025

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