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image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 4 October
2011
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image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 4 October
2011
Quoting the
Abbey Sailing Club website:
"The Abbey Sailing Club is a small
family-centred club situated on the banks of the river Thames on the southern
outskirts of Abingdon-on-Thames. Formed in 1933 by the townsfolk of Abingdon,
the Club has been regularly sailing on the Thames since that date."
The
burgee of the Abbey Sailing Club, as shown graphically on the club website, is
horizontally divided light green-yellow.
Ivan Sache, 30 November 2008
Mick Jones, secretary of the Abbey Sailing Club has been helping me find more
information on the Abbey Sailing Club. He provided me with a copy of the minutes
of the inaugural meeting of the club, on 12 September 1933. Regarding the burgee
they read:
Burgee. Burgee to be pennant
shaped - 10" long
Green & Yellow, halved; green on top
Prop. W. B. Coxeter carried
unanimously
Sec. Cyril Coxeter
A
drawing shows a horizontally divided burgee in ratio 1:2.
Mick Jones
writes that, counter to the minutes, while the burgees are indeed pennant-shape
and in proportion, they are nowadays not in any given length. The colours are
those of Abingdon Town.
Earlier in the same minutes, the Coxeters
proposed the name of the club, following an earlier proposal that looks like
"Abingdon's Abbey SC". Mick Jones added that Abingdon is well known for its
abbey, and he thinks that is where the name came from.
At the club, the
red ensign is flown, accompanied by the burgee of the Abbey Sailing Club in its
usual proportions.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 4 October
2011
