![[Pennant of the Basler Segelclub]](../images/c/ch~bsc.gif)
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by Ivan Sache
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by Ivan Sache
Basler Segelclub (BSC) was established on 21 January 1943.
The club's
colors are prescribed in Article 3 of the club's Statutes, last amended on 26
January 2001, as black / white / blue. The burgee of BSC is blue with three
horizontal white, black and white stripes.
https://www.basler-segelclub.ch
(BSC website)
Ivan Sache, 20 April 2018
![[Pennant of the Cercle de la Voile de Grandson]](../images/c/ch~cvg.gif)
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by Ivan Sache
Cercle de la Voile de Grandson (CVG) was originally established in 1898 in
Grandson (Vaud), on the southwestern end of Lake Neuchâtel. The first club was a
rescue society, which also organized water jousts, rowing races, boat regatta
and water-polo competitions. Close to extinction, the club was re founded in
1923, focusing on the organization of sailing regattas and of a famous summer
festival. In 1939, CVG acquired its first boat from the Staempfli shipyard. The
establishment of the port (1971) and the building of the clubhouse (1976)
allowed CVG to organize national and international competitions.
The
burgee of CVG is triangular with a blue star and the blue letters "CVG" placed
vertically along the hoist.
http://cvgrandson.ch/
Ivan Sache, 12 April 2018
![[Pennant of the Cercle de la Voile de Neuchâtel]](../images/c/ch~cvn.gif)
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by Ivan Sache
The Cercle de la Voile de Neuchâtel (CVN) was established in 1936.
The
burgee of CVN is quartered blue-white.
http://www.cvn.ch (CVN website)
Ivan Sache,
13 April 2018
![[Pennant of the Club de Voile de Lausanne]](../images/c/ch~cvl.gif)
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by Ivan Sache
The burgee of Club de Voile de Lausanne (CVL) is blue with a white cross and
the black letters "CVL" in the center.
https://cvl.ch (CVL website)
Ivan Sache, 6 March 2018
![[Pennant of the Cruising Club of Switzerland]](../images/c/ch~ccswz.gif)
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by Jorge Candeias
Red pennant with a white cross voided throughout and a Swiss cross in canton.
Ivan Sache, 5 August 2000
The flag of the CCS, introduced in 1956, is the Swiss ensign defaced with a golden anchor and the cyphers CCS in the upper hoist. Prior to the 1971 law which allowed yacht clubs to deface the Swiss ensign, this flag was illegal, although tolerated.
Emil Dreyer, 23 May 2002
The flag of the Cruising Club Schweiz, which according to
http://www.ccs-cruising.ch, was created
in 1955 in Bern, is a red
triangular flag with a red cross fimbriated white
shifted to the hoist and a white Greek (or, in this case, Swiss) cross in the
canton.
Jorge Candeias, 28 May 2006
![[Pennant of the Cruising Club of Switzerland]](../images/c/ch~ccs.gif)
image by Jose C. Alegria
Besides the club's burgee, club members are allowed to fly a special ensign.
I attach picture of the ensign based on the one on sale at the club's shop.
Jose C. Alegria, 29 May 2006
Smith (1976) shows both the burgee
and the ensign with a thinner cross.
Ivan Sache, 31 May 2006
![[Pennant of the Davoser Segel und Surfclub]](../images/c/ch~gr@dc1.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The Davoser Segel und Surfclub statutes only mention that the club burgee is
blue-yellow. It can, however, be seen on the
website, as part of the club logo. It's shown as a 10:19 triangular flag,
quartered blue and yellow, charged over the divisions with a cross
counterchanged. This is the pattern of the flag of Davos.
Davoser Segel und Surfclub
(DSSC), Davos' Sailing and Surf Club, was founded 30 June 1967 in Davos, to
give a more formal basis to the sailing on the lake. This lake, Lake Davos is
not very big, but it's one that will rarely be without wind. I expect
that at that time, the club was the "Davoser Segelclub" (DSC). In the
eighties, with the advent of windsurfing, the new sport became part of
club-life as well, which at some point must have lead to a name change. Only
about 15% of the club surf, but they have given the club a steady stream of
national windsurf champions.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 23 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Gstaad Yacht Club]](../images/c/ch~be@gs2.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of the Gstaad Yacht Club can be found on the club website as a variety of illustration. A real flag, but maybe of a larger size than a yacht burgee, can be seen at http://www.gstaadyachtclub.com/trophies/team-trophies, where it serves as a cloth to put trophies on. Each illustration seems to show a slightly different burgee. I've settled on a 2:3 red burgee, with a dark blue stripe 1/3 the length of the hoist in width, with on that stripe two five-pointed then the outline of a crane and then two more stars. I assume the the red and the crane are taken from the flag of Saanen, but I don't know what the stars and the blue represent.
![[Pennant of the Gstaad Yacht Club]](../images/c/ch~be@gs1.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
So many of the
illustrations show a silhouette of crane instead, that I wonder whether this
version may exist in the cloth as well. It may be that the large, outline
version is actually the club flag, and the silhouette version the burgee, but I
was not able to confirm that.
Gstaad Yacht Club (GYC) was founded in
1998. Though its founders had strong ties to Gstaad in
Saanen, and though the club has its own facilities in Gstaad, it aims for a
global membership, no doubt inspired by the international crowd that visits
Gstaad. It currently has over 400 members from more than 20 countries.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Obersee Segelclub Arth]](../images/c/ch~sz@oa.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of the Obersee Segelclub Arth can be found as a small logo
photograph on the website, and as various small drawings on the website and
elsewhere. Using all of these, I've settled for a blue 3:5 triangle with partly
an off-set yellow border, and in yellow the capital letters O, S, C, and A,
representing the name of the club. The letters are apparently in a serif font,
and they may also have been intended as italic but the images are too small to
be sure. The upper part of the border ends further from the hoist than the lower
one, and in a shape suggesting that it's ended by the O placed there.
Obersee Segelclub Arth (OSCA), Arth Upper Lake Sailing Club,
http://www.osca.ch, is a small sailing club in
Arth on the south shore of the upper lake of Lake
Zug. Some of the members harbour in the nearby Aazopf, others moor in Arth
itself.
On the Internet, the club is generally known as "Obersee Club
Arth", and this is indeed how they presented themselves on their old website, up
to 2009. It may be that there has been a recent name change, but I received no
confirmation for that.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Obersee Segelclub Arth]](../images/c/ch~be@ro.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The only clear image of the burgee of the Regattaclub Oberhofen is a
logo on the website, where the burgee is shown flowing and rippling. I've drawn
what that might look like flat. It looks like a 1:2 blue triangle bearing a
white pentagon, with one edge along the hoist, bearing a red vertical lozenge.
I've no idea of its significance, though.
Regattaclub Oberhofen (RCO),
Oberhofen Regatta Club,
http://www.regattaclub-oberhofen.ch, is located at
Oberhofen on Lake Thun, on the east shore of Lake Thun, just South-east of
Thun.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 November 2013
![[Pennant of the Obersee Segelclub Arth]](../images/c/ch~rvb.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache
Regatta-Verein Brunnen (RVB) was established on 3 May 1963 in Brunnen
(municipality of Ingenbohl, Schwyz), on Lake Lucerne.
The flag of RVB is
described in Article 3 of the club's Statutes, as follows:
Rectangular, in
length, 20 units, in width, 11 units.
From left to right:
Blue 4 units
White 1 unit
Red 3 units
White 1 unit
Blue 11 units [square]
http://www.rv-brunnen.ch/clubdesk/fileservlet?id=1000017 (RVB Statutes)
Ivan Sache, 18 April 2018
