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Sheboygan Yacht Club (U.S.)

Wisconsin

image by Miles Li, 9 June 2022

Burgee
Sheboygan Polar Bear Club

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Burgee

The Sheboygan Yacht Club is situated in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, with Lake Michigan as its home waters. The first try at establishing a yacht club in Sheboygan stems from 1887, but by 1916 it has quietly disappeared.

In 1931 a new yacht club was formed, from Depression Times acquisitions. This time the yachting hobby stayed around, and over time it came to include not only the first three yachts needing an anchorage, but also place for over 50 others yacht. Sea Scouts found a home their, as did a youth sailing club, and now even a U.S. Sailing Center. Through all this, and through being a welcoming place to be, the club also regularly welcomed national events.

I have not found anything about the club's burgee. It is there, though I had to be moved over to Team One, Newport, to find an example image. Nothing is said about it, though. An easy guess would state that 'S' is for 'Sheboygan'. What the barrulet stands for, on the other hand, I have no idea.

Other than that, the club uses the common flags for Commodore, 'Vice Commodore', Rear Commodore, Treasurer, and Secretaries.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 7 June 2022

Sheboygan Polar Bear Club

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 May 2024

The Sheboygan Polar Bear Club is a U.S. recreational sports group which promotes yearly a January 1st communal lake-bathing event, the Sheboygan Polar Plunge, in the shores of nearby Lake Michigan.

Its flag is ~3:4 light blue with its logo centered on it surrounded by large lettering. This flag (which may exist in several copies, I could not ascertain either way) is brought to the annual event hoisted on a large handheld staff (apparently, a curtain rod), onto which a thermometer is affixed. In the off season this flag is likely kept on indoor display, as it is fitted with metal eyelets on its flyside corners.

The logo consists of a white disc containing a black linedraw cartoon of a polar bear wearing sunglasses and sitting on an ice floe holding a forked penannt, also light blue (the only non-black-and-white element of this logo) that reads in crude black handwriting "It’s not COLD enough!", the latter word on a 2nd text line.

On the flag, the logo takes the center, its diameter only about half of the flag’s height, with the inscription "Sheboygan" above and "Polar Bear Club" below, both arched inwards and set in large bold compact black serifless capitals.

Photos of this flag in use at the 2019 edition of this event:
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019
and context article: https://eu.sheboyganpress.com

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 May 2024