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![[Pennant of the Yacht Club Arbon]](../images/c/ch~yca.gif)
image by Ivan Sache
Yacht Club Arbon (YCA) was established in 1966 in Arbon (Thurgau), on the
southern shore of Lake Constance.
The burgee of YCA is horizontally divided
blue-red-green.
YCA website: http://www.yca.ch
Ivan Sache, 21 February 2018
![[Pennant of the Yacht Club Arbon]](../images/c/ch~yca@2.gif)
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
I don't have really solid evidence, but the burgee is always depicted with
the colour outlines in white. So, I would say these are really part of the
design. Even the club of clubs [that hopefully will return to a sensible name
one day] also depicts this burgee with white outlines between the colours.
https://www.manage2sail.com/de-DE/Club/Detail/b9157304-7f8e-4bca-92aa-492137531acf
The burgee of YCA is horizontally divided blue-red-green, with white
outlines between the colours.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 May 2020
![[Pennant of the Yacht Club Au]](../images/c/ch~ycau.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache
Yacht Club Au (YCAu) was established in 1970 in Au (Wädenswil), on the
southern shore of Lake Zurich.
The burgee of YCAu is green with a blue
horizontal stripe in the center outlined in white.
https://www.yachtclubau.ch
Ivan Sache, 19 April 2018
![[flag of YCBB]](../images/c/ch~ycbb1.jpg)
![[burgee of YCBB]](../images/c/ch~ycbb_pen1.jpg)
images located by Martin Karner
The Yacht Club beider Basel (Yacht Club of both Basels, YCBB) was founded in 2013 by a group of
hobby sailors from the cantons of Basel-Stadt and
Baselland. The purpose of the club, with its headquarters in Basel, is to
promote motorized and non-motorized water sports, to cultivate conviviality and to safeguard the sporting
interests of its members.
The rectangular flag's aspect ratio is 1 : root of 3 (~1.73). In the center is a white cross reaching to
the edges. The vertical bar is 1.8 times wider than the horizontal bar. The corner fields' colours are
changed diagonally by red and black. In the red canton is a white Swiss Cross shifted towards the hoist.
In the center of the flag is a black anchor with a black rope, below it are the black letters Y.C.B.B.
Above the anchor are three yellow five-pointed stars in triangle formation (photo).
The colour red stands for Baselland, black for Basel-Stadt. The three stars represent river, lake and sea
on the one hand; rowboat, motorboat and sailing boat on the other. The flag is hoisted with the Swiss
Cross at the hoist side.
The burgee has in general the same design as the flag, but without the letters Y.C.B.B., the horizontal bar is wider, and the Swiss
Cross has wider arms and is centered in the corner field (photo).
On the club's website the flag is used also as logo.
Martin Karner, 30 April 2023
![[Pennant of the Yacht Club Bielersee]](../images/c/ch~ycb.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
Yacht Club Bielersee (YCB) is based in Nidau (Bern), on the right bank of
Lake Bienne/Biel.
The burgee of YCB is composed of two triangles
placed along the hoist, a yellow chevron and a red lozenge.
http://www.ycb.ch/de-ch/boutique.aspx:
YCB online shop
Ivan Sache, 12 April 2018
The burgee then and now, as well as the page in the Swiss Sailing League then
and now, all have a black hoist.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 May 2020
![[Pennant of the Yacht Club de Genève]](../images/c/ch~ycg.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache
Yacht Club de Genève (YCG), established in 1886 in Cologny as "Club Nautique
des Faces Pâles", was renamed to its present-day's name in March 1958. With a
membership of more than 2000, YCG organizes every year the Genève-Rolle-Genève
race.
The colors of YCG are described in Article 2 of the club's
Statutes, last amended on 22 November 2017, as "Azure a fess per fess gules and
or a bezant argent in canton". The burgee of YCG is a triangular version of thee
colors.
http://www.ycg.ch: YCG website
Ivan Sache, 1 March 2018
![[Pennant of the Yacht Club Horgen]](../images/c/ch~zh@yh.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The statutes of Yacht Club Horgen do mention a burgee, but they don't
describe it. The burgee can be seen as a graphic in the YCH website. The
versions differ slightly between pages
http://www.ych.ch and
http://www.ych.ch/typo3temp/pics/e6c161274f.gif. A photograph at
http://www.ych.ch/de/segeln_fuer_aktive/spirit_of_horgen shows yet another
variation [both links not retrievable]. Generally speaking it's a 1:2 triangular pennant with in the hoist a
white swan on red, beak and feet yellow, and in the fly a blue lying T on white.
The hoist of the burgee is obviously the flag of Horgen;
I don't know the meaning of the T, though.
Yacht Club Horgen (YCH), is
located in Horgen on the south-west shore of the Zürichsee. Founded in 1968, the
club aimed to support both competitive and recreational sailing, and to this day
that is exactly what they do.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 26 September 2013
![[Pennant of the Yacht Club Immensee]](../images/c/ch~sz@is.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
I've only found two small drawings of the burgee of Yacht Club Immensee,
which seemed to display a 10:19 blue triangle with shaped white letters Y C I.
The drawings both had a blue hoist with a white line along it, which I
interpreted as the header, rather than an actual part of the design.
Yacht Club Immensee (YCI), http://www.yci.ch, is
a club in Immensee, at the west point of the upper
Lake Zug.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 23 October 2013
![[Burgee of the Yacht Club Luzern]](../images/c/ch~ycl.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache
Yacht Club Luzern (YCL) was established on 2 November 1941.
The burgee of YCL is blue with a white emblem, maybe recalling number "4",
for the "Four Forested Settlements" (Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Lucerne), the
namesake of the lake (German: Vierwaldstättersee).
http://www.ycl.ch/
YCL website
Ivan Sache, 18 April 2018
The charge of the burgee represents a 4, standing for the "Vierwaldstättersee",
the German name for Lake Lucerne, and for the four cantons that surround it:
Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Lucerne.
The shape of the "4" shows the contours of the lake [viewed from the north]:
• Lucerne Bay
• Küssnachter Basin
• Stansstad Basin
• Weggiser Basin
• Gersau Basin
• Urnersee
Thanks to YCL president Thomas Meseck.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 2 June 2020
![[Burgee of Yacht Club Rapperswil]](../images/c/ch~ycrp.jpg)
image located by
Martin Karner
(picture | source)
Burgee of the Yacht Club Rapperswil (est. 1922, website). On white a
red Latin cross, blue cotticed, in the center of the cross a white disc with a green wreath, surrounding
the two roses of the Rapperswil-Jona communal flag (resembling a rowlock).
The burgee was displayed upon arrival of Oliver Heer's sailing boat at the Vendée Globe yacht racing in
Les Sables-d'Olonne on the French Atlantic coast on 17 February 2025. Heer, from Rapperswil-Jona, crossed
the finish line in the 29th place after 99 days, 5 hours, and 27 minutes. He was the third Swiss
participant beside Justine Mettraux (8th) and Alan Roura (18th), and the first German-Swiss who sailed
around the world solo. The race was won by Charlie Dalin (France).
Martin Karner, 5 March 2025
![[Pennant of the Yacht Club Schaffhausen]](../images/c/ch~ycs.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache
Yachtclub Schaffhausen (YCS), established in 1934, is based in Steckborn TG, on
the southern shore of Lake Constance.
The burgee of YCS is green with a
golden yellow saltire outlined in black.
http://www.ycs.ch/
YCL website
Ivan Sache, 20 April 2018
![[Pennant of the Yacht Club Sempachersee]](../images/c/ch~lu@sp.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of Yachtclub Sempachersee can be found as a logo on the club
website, http://www.ycse.ch. They have
different logos for different purposes however, differing most details of the
design. Though I could not find a specification or a good photo, generally
speaking they show a blue triangle with a flyward shallow double chevron, the
one closer to the hoist red and the other yellow.
The Yachtclub
Sempachersee (YCSe), also "Yacht Club Sempacher See" and "Yacht-Club
Sempachersee", Lake Sempach Yacht Club, is located in Eggerswil (
Nottwil), in the south-west of Lake Sempach. However, the club
also draws members from elsewhere around the lake.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Yacht-Club Spiez]](../images/c/ch~be@sp.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of Yacht-Club Spiez can be found in a rather artistic version as a
logo on the website. According to the statutes at
http://www.ycsp.ch/fileadmin/ycsp/mitglieder/Statuten/Statuten_YCSp_2013.pdf,
"Der Yacht-Club Spiez führt einen blau/weissen Stander mit einem sechszackigen
Stern im Stockliek." (The Spiez Yacht-Club Spiez flies a blue/white burgee with
a six-pointed star in the hoist.) While the logo satisfies that description, it
shows an approximately 1:3 blue triangle, with unequal, widening then tapering,
white fly edges, and an asymmetrically-placed star. For lack of more precise
information, I've drawn an approximation at 36:60 units, where the white edges
both start 9 units wide and taper to nothing at 9 units horizontally from the
tip. A six-pointed star, 8 units wide, is placed centred, its centre 9 units
from the hoist. As an approximation of the logo, it may be inaccurate in all
aspects except those covered by the statutes.
The blue, white, and
tapering could have been taken from the flag of Spiez, but otherwise I don't
know whether the design has special significance.
Yacht-Club Spiez (YCSp),
http://www.ycsp.ch/index.php?id=home, was founded in 1964. It is located at
Spiez, on the south-west shore of Lake Thur. The
club has in all slightly less than 300 members, and focuses heavily on
competitive sailing.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 25 October 2013
The burgee of Yacht-Club Spiez you contributed reminds one of the
"house" pennant of the Herbert Woods fleet of
inland holiday hire vessels based in the village of Potter Heigham in Norfolk,
UK. I wonder if there is any possible connection?
Pete Loeser, 26
October 2013
![[Pennant of the Yacht Club Zug]](../images/c/ch~zg@yz.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
I've found only a glimpse of the burgee of the Yacht Club Zug on a
photo, but a graphic showing the burgee can be seen on every page of
the club website. Apparently it's a blue 5:9
burgee with a yellow trident, the outer teeth slightly smaller than the middle
tooth; two white star are placed on opposite sides of the shaft of the trident,
both pointing away from the shaft. The photograph and other drawings show
different shades of blue, so I've used a standard blue for the field.
The
burgee was designed by Eugen Hotz shortly after the club became independent.
The Yacht Club Zug (YCZ), started its life as the Zug Group of the
Segelgilde Zugersee, the latter having been founded in 1942 in Cham and the two
groups having been formed in 1943. As the groups grew larger, in 1947 they
became independent as the Segel Club Cham and the Yacht Club Zug. The new club
was obviously located in Zug in the north-east
corner of Lake Zug. They immediately started planning a club house there, but it
would take until 2000 before their plans could become a reality. The club aims
to play a leading role in the Central-Swiss sail sport, by training the next
generation of sailing members, organising national and even world championships
and being open to innovation, but also by offering fellowship for its members
and by caring for Lake Zug, its home lake.
Their predecessor, the
Segelgilde Zugersee, probably had a burgee as well. It may be this was the
burgee used today by Segel Club Cham, though.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 19 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Zürcher Segel Club]](../images/c/ch~zh@sc.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of the Zürcher Segel Club, as shown as a graphic on the club
website (http://www.z-s-c.ch), is a triangular
8:13 flag, quartered per saltire white over blue, with a narrow red cross over
all with a width of approximately 1/10 of the height of the hoist. I've drawn
this as shown – whether this is exactly right, I don't know, as I could find no
photograph or regulation to determine the details. Specifically, I don't know
the placement of the vertical arm of the cross. Neither do I know the meaning of
the elements of the burgee, nor who designed it or when it was adopted.
Club:
The Zürcher Segel Club (ZSC) was founded in 1917. The club has
Zürich
as its home city and the Zürichsee as its home waters. The activities of the
club include both competitive and recreational sailing, as well as the
development of youth sailing. A tradition of more than a century makes the
members strive to always to be one of the leading clubs of Switzerland. The ZSC
has the Seglervereinigung Kilchberg as a partner. Together they manage the Schilfmatt,
a base site near Pfäffikon for sailing on the upper Zürichsee.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 19 September 2013
![[Pennant of the Zürcher Yacht Club]](../images/c/ch~zh@yc1.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of the Zürcher Yacht Club, as shown as a graphic on the club
website (http://www.zyc.ch), is a triangular
approximately 1:2 white flag, with a blue cross throughout, fimbriated red.
![[Pennant of the Zürcher Yacht Club]](../images/c/ch~zh@yc2.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
Elsewhere on the Internet, the burgee is depicted as approximately 3:5, with
a cross that is more narrow, and black and red. Others place the vertical arm
closer to the hoist.
![[Pennant of the Zürcher Yacht Club]](../images/c/ch~zh@yc3.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The Dumpy Pocket Book of Sailing Dinghies and Yachts
[ele60?] shows the burgee with the length of the perpendicular edge of the
hoist quarters equal to the length of their hoist edge. Rather then a red
fimbriation to the blue cross, however, it shows the blue cross cotised
green. It's a
book from 1960, but it was apparently done in
cooperation with the clubs whose burgees it documents. So, is this a mistake
or is it an earlier burgee?
The Zürcher Yacht Club (ZYC) was
founded in 1902. Though a Zürcher Segel Club had just before gone bankrupt,
the ZYC was not considered by its members to be a continuation of the earlier
club. Nevertheless, by now the club has quite a lengthy history. The ZYC has
Zürich as its home city and the Zürichsee as its home waters, the combination
leading to a club house close to the city centre. The ZYC is a club for those
to whom sailing is a way of life; it strives to be a leading club in
Switzerland regarding new development in the sport, by seeking cooperation
both in Switzerland and abroad.
Though not a direct predecessor, the Zürcher Segel Club of 1885 is linked to the history of the ZYC. It probably had a burgee as well.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 September 2013
