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![[Carrickfergus Amateur Rowing Club burgee]](../images/g/gb~ycfsc.jpg)
photo by Helen Beatty, 19 April 2026
Carrickfergus Sailing Club at Carrickfergus is found on the Belfast Lough, NW
of Belfast in N. Ireland, UK. Website:
http://www.carrickfergussc.org/. Highlights from ‘Information - History’
(left menu): founded as Carrickfergus Rowing Club in 1866 also active in
sailing. 1891, Carrickfergus Sailing Club founded. 1921, ladies admitted and
tennis introduced. 1922, merger of the two clubs into Carrickfergus Amateur
Rowing and Sailing Clubs. Tennis dropped after WWII. Cruising boats since about
1975. The Club regalia page shows drawings of two flags:
http://www.carrickfergussc.org/Information/ClubRegalia.
Jan Mertens,
23 May 2010
The burgee on the club's webpage appears to show the castle occupying the
maximum dimensions of the pennant, somewhat larger than the one on the image
attached.
More details at
https://www.carrickfergussc.org/
A Facebook page for the
Carrickfergus Amateur Rowing Club does not appear to have been updated since
2016:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carrickfergus
Wikipedia tells us:
Carrickfergus Sailing Club is a sailing club in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland
on the north shore of Belfast Lough. The club was founded in 1866 as
Carrickfergus Amateur Rowing Club.
Rob Raeside, 19 April 2026
![[Carrickfergus Amateur Rowing Club burgee]](../images/g/gb~carc2.jpg)
image located by Jan Mertens, 24 May 2010
This photo
detail evokes the continued(?) or historic(?) merger of CARC and
CSC.
Jan Mertens, 24 May 2010
This "merged flag" of Carrickfergus Sailing Club and Carrickfergus Amateur Rowing Club is a white flag with red hoist and fly edges, a red St. Georges cross, the letters CARC in the four white quadrants and in the centre a red pennant showing a three-towered castle.