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Estb: 1911. Location: 830 Bayway Blvd., Clearwater.
Burgee: Pennant 2:3
(web image). Blue field charged with a red isosceles triangle based on hoist
(sides 1 unit) with white fimbriation carried from apex to fly point forming a
pall.
Source: accessed 12 March 2019,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearwater_Yacht_Club
"It all started
at a New Year’s Eve party at the imposing winter home of Col. Lowe Emerson on
Bayfront in 1910. . . The Charter and by-laws were officially registered on 14th
of February 1911, and the 28 wealthy winter resident members met at each other’s
homes for the next two or more years, until by default the fledgling Clearwater
Yacht Club fell into inactivity. Young men came back from the great war in 1919
to a Clearwater with little to satifsy (sic) their boundless energies. By then
the town had paved brick roads running down to a wide, long dock, at the end of
which was a building with a pavilion atop, which was to become the new
Clearwater Yacht Club clubhouse that year with a totally new group of members.
Throughout the years, Clearwater Yacht Club has never lost sight of a
fundamental objective enshrined in its by-laws, “the promotion of sailing”. In
1977 the Kahlua Cup was founded, becoming the first major “big boat regatta” to
be organized and hosted by Clearwater Yacht Club on an annual basis. J24
Regattas attracted much attention, producing some highly competitive sailing.
The long distance race from Clearwater to Key West, sailed every May, became
highly esteemed and universally popular. In 1988 the Optimist Youth Sailing
Program was introduced , and in just ten years Clearwater Yacht Club has become
one of the best known clubs on the United States circuit, not least a the result
of a young Clearwater Yacht Club sailor winning a place in the US Tea[m] of five
to contest the Worlds in Portugal in 1990.”
Source: accessed 12 March 2019,
http://clearwateryachtclub.org/about/history/
Peter Edwards, 25
March 2019
As I read it, that would mean a very flat hoist triangle, as it's only the
width of the white fimbriation that keeps it from being entirely flat. Neither
the source image nor the sent image match that. It does seem correct, though;
see
http://burgees.southernyachtclub.org/index.php/files/clearwater-yacht-club
for example, which has a rather flat triangle and rather wide fimbriation.
So, I checked the club's rules, which has a, somewhat misspelt, reference to
the burgee:
CLEARWATER YACHT CLUB, INC.
BYLAWS
Effective November
11, 1993
"ARTICLE X
Flags, Signals, Uniforms
10.1 The Club Burgee
shall be a triangular pennant with a royal blue filed upon which is superimposed
on a napthol red triangle at the hoist, the red triangle being bordered by a
white band on the short sides which band extends towards the tip through the
center of the blue field and terminates in a point just short of the apex of the
pennant. ..."
It tells us what the colours are supposed to be, but makes
no reference to a red isosceles triangle, nor does it give a ratio for the
sides.
The CYC does use officers' flags, of the style common in the US,
but the only use they get appears to be the ceremony for installing new
officers.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 March 2019
