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![[Pennant of the Segelclub Schloss Greifensee]](../images/c/ch~zh@sg2.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of the Segelclub Schloss Greifensee can be found on the front page
of the club website,
http://www.segelclub-scsg.ch. A photo of it can be seen in a list of
Zürichsee-Segelverbandes (1976) burgees (http://www.scoz.ch/index.jsp?nodeId=11483).
Though these don't match precisely, it appears to be a 3:5 triangular yellow
field with a red tricross, with arms with a width of 1/5 the length of the
hoist. A graphic where the burgee bears the letters SCSG can be found on
a website page as well. Until I learn otherwise, I'll assume this is only a
graphic, whatever the purpose of adding lettering to the burgee may be.
The colours of the burgee are those of the Greifensee commune.
Segelclub Schloss Greifensee (SCSG) was founded on 14 May
1949, by a group of only five charter members. It has grown to a club of more than
200 members. Greifensee is the club's home, and the lake of the same name are
its home waters. The club is proud of its national, European and world
championship medal-winners, but stresses that recreational sailing is as
important as competitive sailing. The SCSG also stresses fellowship and teaching
youth. Exactly why the club is named after Greifensee Castle, is not mentioned
on their website [Maybe to distinct themselves better from the
Segelclub vom Greifensee].
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Sihlsee]](../images/c/ch~sz@ss.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of the Segelclub Sihlsee is only visible as a logo on the club's
website and documents (http://www.segelclub-sihlsee.ch).
It's a blue triangle of approximately 5:8, with a charge in white. The charge
looks like three images of film, but I would not know why such a charge would be
on a burgee, so I expect it's something else.
Segelclub Sihlsee (SCS),
Sihlsee Sailing Club, is located in Einsiedeln. Its
home water is the Sihlsee, Switzerland's largest artificial lake. It may be that
the character of the lake means that cruising is not very interesting, but in
any case the club seems to focus an competitive sailing and training children
and youngsters.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Stäfa]](../images/c/ch~scsta.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache
Segelclub Stäfa (SCStä) was established on 18 October 1967 in Stäfa, on the
northern shore of Lake Zurich.
The burgee of SCStä is made of a blue
vertical stripe placed along the hoist and a white half disc emitting eight
white and seven red rays.
https://www.scstaefa.ch/
Ivan Sache, 19 April 2018
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Tribschenhorn]](../images/c/ch~sct.gif)
image by
Ivan Sache
Segelclub Tribschenhorn (SCT) was established in 1978 in Lucerne.
The burgee of SCT is white with a blue border, a vertical blue stripe placed
along the hoist and charged with the blue letter "SCT" and three blue triangular
sails.
http://www.sct.ch/
Ivan Sache, 18 April 2018
![[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen]](../images/c/ch~gl@gw.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
A graphic on the website of the Segel- und Motorbootclub Glarnerland und
Walensee, https://www.smcgw.ch, shows a waving
and rippling burgee. It's a 4:7 red over black over red, 3:4:3 burgee with
tapering stripes. Spanning the black is a white compass star, its centre 1/4th
of the length of the hoist away from the hoist.
![[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen]](../images/c/ch~gl@gw1.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The Dumpy Pocket
Book of Sailing Dinghies and Yachts [ele60?], shows a similar design, but with a
larger star, extending some length into the red. This is also how
the SMCGM burgee logo is depicted on at least one shared document on the SCOW
website, e.g. http://www.scow.ch/regatta/fairplay_text.gif. What seems to
be a more recent document,
http://www.scow.ch/regatta/junioren/junioren.htm, shows the logo as it is
currently visible on the SMCGW website. It may be the burgee, or at least the
flagoid, changed recently to a smaller star version.
Segel- und
Motorbootclub Glarnerland und Walensee (SMC GW), Glarnerland and Lake Walen
Sailing and Motor Boat Club, was founded in 1955. Though originally harboured
in Weesen SG itself on the lower, west end
of Lake Walen, over time it transferred to a harbour a kilometre to the
south-east. Appropriately, this has moved the club across the canton border
into Glarus canton [Mollis, Glarus Nord]. The club has
developed the harbour further, and now offers its members space for both yachts and
motor boats.
As the two clubs share the Walensee, the SMC GW organises
activities together with the SCOW.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, November 2013
![[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg]](../images/c/ch~zh@hb1.gif)
![[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg]](../images/c/ch~zh@hb2.gif)
images by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg can be seen as a graphic on the
pages of the club's website, where it appears to
be 2:3. A photo of an actual burgee in the club shop, however, shows that
it really has a 3:4 ratio. It's a triangular blue field with three yellow wavy
lines of two waves. Though the charges are probably indeed meant as waves, they
may refer to the three yokes in the municipal flag.
There is a flag for
the club house. The terrain rules even require the members to hoist it on longer
stays. This might be the flag that we see hanging in the tent during the 40 year
celebration. It is similar to the burgee, but 3:5 and with more massive charges.
Club:
Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg (SYH), Herrliberg Sail and Yacht
Club, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2013, so they were probably founded
in 1973. The club is apparently located in Herrliberg
on the east coast of Lake Zurich, though I could find no mention of their
location on their current website. Apparently they target the local population,
who would know where to find them. To these, the club is "more than sailing",
according to their tag.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen]](../images/c/ch~zh@sw.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The statutes of the Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen correctly refer to the
often-overlooked point that boats should do their burgee justice: The board can
refuse a poorly maintained ship the right to fly the burgee.
http://www.sycw.ch/index.php/de/79-sycw/73-nutzungsbedingungen
The statutes do not, on the other hand, tell us what that burgee looks like.
The drawing that is used as a logo on the web site (www.sycw.ch),
however, is a yellow triangular field with a black lying T that doesn't reach
the hoist. Assuming that the arms are supposed to be equally wide, the flag
would have to be approximately 1:2. I couldn't find any other details regarding
the burgee, except that maybe the club had different burgees to go with the
different names.
Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen (SYCW) was founded on 7
January 1948, for the purpose of fellowship and providing winter storage for the
boats. Originally, the club was named "Pirat" (Pirate). A mention is made of a "Piraten-Abzeichen"
(pirate badge), but I don't know whether that would mean an actual badge, and a
burgee showing it. As the name of the club was not understood in the spirit it
was chosen in, the club in 1951 changed their name: First to "Neuer Segelclub
Zürich", and when the Zürcher Segelclub immediately took legal action against
that choice, secondly to "Segel- und Motorbootclub", as there were some
motorboats in the club as well. Their website doesn't say whether that was just
"Segel- und Motorbootclub" or rather "Segel- und Motorbootclub Zürich". If the
latter, that means the club that of that name that the SCE split off from in
1937 must have ended its existence before then.
Later members began
moving their boats to the new harbour in Wollishofen
on the west shore of the Zürichsee, and as the "Motorboot" part of their name
harmed their image of a sailing club, as their fourth name the club picked "Segel-
und Yachtclub Wollishofen". On their website, the club also writes the name as "Segel
und Yacht Club Wollishofen". The club may have had earlier burgees that went
with the earlier names. Apart from the mention of a "Piraten-Abzeichen", the WVR
have a burgee in their club house looking like a yellow burgee with a black
lying T on it with on the T the letters SMCZ and what looks like a fouled anchor
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/wvrrichti/5003445987).
Is this burgee from the "Segel- und Motorbootclub" era, I wonder?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 September 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub vom Greifensee]](../images/c/ch~zh@gs.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of the Segelclub vom Greifensee can be seen as a graphic on,
among other places, the front page of the club, and
as a photograph in a list of Zürichsee-Segelverbandes (1976) burgees (http://www.scoz.ch/index.jsp?nodeId=11483).
Following the photo, I'd
say it's a blue triangular flag in a ratio of 6:11, with a white line with a
width of slightly more than 1/11 of the length of the hoist through the
middle. Parallel to it, above it, the last one slightly overlapping it, five
stripes of the same width, red and white, so long that the top stripe is cut
diagonally by the flag's edge.
Exact design: No
formal description found. Though the photo shows overlapping, it may be
that this is not part of the design. Also, the ratio may in reality be
different.
Meaning: The five red over white stripes obviously come from the
municipal flag of Uster.
It took the people of Uster a while to realise that the Greifensee could be used for sailing. After the Segelclub vom Greifensee (SCvG) was founded in 1943, their next problem was to convince the rest of Switzerland that sailing on such a puddle was indeed possible. Where in the first year, regattas were sailed with shore start, in the years since then it turned out that the puddle could even be used to organise Swiss Championships on. Nowadays the club supports both recreational and competitive sailing, even if they are justifiably proud of the club members who sail competitively in the Olympic Games.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Wendelsee]](../images/c/ch~be@ws1.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Wendelsee]](../images/c/ch~be@ws2.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of Segelclub Wendelsee can be found as a logo on the club
website, http://www.scwe.ch, and the documents
on it. It's a triangular flag with a black hoist and red fly, the two separated
with a shaped W the two outer tips of which form the hoist corners. Presumably
the W stands for "Wendelsee". The logos do not all show the exact same design,
though, differing in the style of W used, and in the ratio. As I could not find
specifications or a photo, I settled on an average 2:3 burgee, showing one
with a W with an sharp inner point and one with a blunt inner tip.
Counter to what the name suggests, the home water of Segelclub
Wendelsee, Lake Wendel Sailing Club, is not Lake Wendel, as the club is not
old enough for that. "Lake Wendel" was, more than a millennium ago, the name
for the combination of Lake Brienz and Lake Thun before the lakes were
separated, and may have remained the old name for Lake Thun for a number of
centuries afterwards. Segelclub Wendelsee (SCWe) was founded 15 May 1975.
Their home water is the lake now named "Lake Thun", where they strive to
further both the activeness and cosiness aspects of sailing. As their
clubhouse is in the boat house of Ruderclub Thun, the location of the SCWe
must be Thun, though they don't seem to
mention it anywhere. [According its website, the club moved in 1992 from Hilterfingen to Thun.]
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Küsnachter-Segelclub]](../images/c/ch~zh@ks.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg
The burgee of the Küsnachter-Segelclub, as seen on the web-page of the
club,
http://www.segelschulezwick.ch/segelclub.html, is a triangular flag with a
ratio of approximately 4:7, with a yellow field with a red off-set cross, the
width of the arms of the cross 1/9 of the height of the hoist. The image is
not very clear though and no specification is available, so apart from there
being a triangular flag with a cross I'm not sure of any of the details. Apart
from the colours matching those of the Küsnacht flag, there's nothing else I can
say about it.
The Küsnachter-Segelclub (KSC), was founded on 5 February
2005 in the community that had grown around the sailing school that started some
six years earlier at the Strandbad of Küsnacht, on
the east coast of the Zürichsee. The KSC aims to be an open club, without any
obstructions to membership, where everyone is welcome. Having grown to a club of
some 90 members, its relation to the sailing school apparently still gives it a
certain focus on training groups. In 2012, the owner of the sailing school was
fed up with the ad hoc rules for combining strandbad and sailing school
that he had to endure each year, and intended to take his school elsewhere.
Whether this has happened, and whether this possibly has brought the existence
of the club to an end, I don't know. The web-page makes no mention of the reason
for connecting the two words in the name by way of a hyphen.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 22 September 2013
The name of the sailing school and club's founder is Thomas Zwick. The club
was renamed to Segelclub Zürcher Seen (SCZS – Lake Zurich Sailing Club) in 2015.
http://www.segelschulezwick.ch/segelclub/
Ivan Sache, 19 April 2018
Clubs are renamed when they want to join the Swiss yachting federation, but
find their abbreviation is already taken. Alternatively, it might be that the
reference to Küsnacht had become obsolete owing to the school owner indeed
moving elsewhere and taking the club with him.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 19 April 2018
