Danish Yacht Clubs (R)

Danske Sejlklubber og Motorbådsklubber (R)

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• Fjorden Sejl- og Motorbådsklubben Randers (The Fjord Sailing and Motorboat Club Randers)
• Randers Motorbådsklub (Randers Motor Boat Club)
• Randers Sejlklub (Randers Sailing Club)
• Ribe Jolleklub (Ribe Dinghy Club)
• Ribe Sejlklub (Ribe Sailing Club)
• Rønnerhavns Bådelaug (Rønnerhavn Boat Guild)
• Rørvig Sejlklub (Rørvig Sailing Club)
• Rudkøbing Sejlklub (Rudkøbing Sailing Club)

• Denmark
• Yacht Ensign

Fjorden Sejl- og Motorbådsklubben Randers

The pennant is red fimbriated white with a white 5-point star shifted to hoist.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.2, row 8, column 2
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2021

Randers Motorbådsklub

The pennant is white parted by a red horizontal line.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.7, row 4, column 3
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2021

Randers Sejlklub

56:107, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Aug 2025

56:107, image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Aug 2025

The date we give for the Royal Resolution that established the flag, 18 May, is actually the date upon which the club´s original application for an ensign defaced with a white cross below the letters "YF" was turned down by the Ministry (on the grounds that it was "precisely the recognition badge of a Vice-Admiral" and asking that they "submit a different proposal"). I do not have a copy of the club´s reply, but the application for an ensign defaced with a gold star ("below the letters YF" rather than to the side as we show it) was submitted by the Ministry of the Navy (signed by N.K. Rayn) on 28 May 1889, and approved (in the name of the King) by Crown Prince Frederik on 29 May 1889. This authorization was conveyed to the club, and permission granted to fly the ensign as described, in a letter dated 1 June 1889. I also have a note (on which I unfortunately failed to record a source) that the star should be tilted 18 degrees towards the hoist?
Christopher Southworth, 12 May 2004

The club was established on 24 June 1877. Its flag is a yacht ensign with additional golden 5-point star reversed under golden letters "Y.C." The design has changed in 2025 (see left image above). The shade of red had become darker and the badge was shifted to top. On old ensign (see right image above) letters and star are in centre of the canton.
Source: club webpage
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 Aug 2025

The pennant is white with a red reversed 5-point star shifted to hoist.
Source: club webpage

The state ensign with yellow emblem in the canton consisting of the letters "Y.F." and a five-pointed star below them. It may be noted that Flaggenbuch shows three different designs for the initials "Y.F." in the three last flags. Actually designs are the same but their size relative to the flag size and their positioning are different in each of the three flags. This may be significant and may be reflecting the designs as shown in the original grants or as used in practice. On the other hand some sources shows the letters the same in all three flags, probably for "simplicity" sake. The ensign was approved by royal resolution of 18 May 1889.
Source: Album des Pavillons (2000)
Jose C. Alegria Diaz, 25 Jan 2000 and Željko Heimer, 3 June 2004

Ribe Jolleklub

The pennant is red, charged with a white flying seagull and white initial "R" (upper hoist) and "J (lower hoist).
Source: Pennant Chart, p.7, row 5, column 3
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 Mar 2021

Ribe Sejlklub

The club was established in 1905. The pennant is red with a flying seagull.
Source: Sejlernyt Forår 2006, front cover
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 27 Feb 2021

Rønnerhavns Bådelaug

The pennant is blue, shifted to hoist is a white boat seen from prow. Rønnerhavn is located in North Jutland just north of Frederikshavn.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.7, row 10, column 1
Klaus-Michael Schneider, Mar 2021

Rørvig Sejlklub

The pennant is vertically parted of blue (hoist) and white (fly), charged with a viking ship in counterchanged colours, in canton is a white 6-point star. Rørvig is located in West Zealand at the mouth of the Isefjord.
Source: Pennant Chart, p.7, row 10, column 2
Klaus-Michael Schneider, Mar 2021

Rudkøbing Sejlklub

I saw two versions of this burgee.  The old burgees are white, blue border all around and 3 fish swimming flyward. New burgees are white, blue border along the free edges and 3 fish swimming hoistward. Although white, 3 fish swimming dexter, is the shield of Rudkøbing, and the club´s site shows a burgee like the old ones.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 Aug 2001

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