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Alert Ice Sailing Club, British Arctic Territory (Flag Hoax)

All "British Arctic Territory" flags are hoaxes, developed by Clay Moss et al. on April Fools' Days

Alert Ice Sailing Club
Burgee
Officers' flags

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British Arctic Territory

Alert Ice Sailing Club

image by Clay Moss, 1 April 2016

Celebrating its 21st birthday, the beautiful metropolis of Alert presents the flag of the newly formed Alert Ice Sailing Club.

The club has actually existed from the beginning of the BAT as a territory, but the flag and ensign of choice for the club was the BAT red ensign. As interest in the club exploded and ice boat tonnage rose, it was appropriately decided that the club needed its own flag, and thus the attached image.

The club is in the application process for a Royal Warrant that would make it the first "royal" ice sailing club. Only time will tell if the warrant transpires, but word out of Buckingham Palace sounds encouraging.
Clay Moss, 1 April 2016

Burgee

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 April 2016

When a club adopts its own flag later in its existence, it often takes the emblem from its burgee, and the AISC is no exception. Now, for a flag, obviously an ice sailer would be turned so that the proud polar bear in its sail would face the hoist. For a club burgee there's no such concern, which is fortunate as the shape of the charge wouldn't go well with the shape of the burgee that way. Hence, the ice sailer isn't turned in the burgee.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 April 2016

There was considerable discussion at the Office of Vexillology as to whether or not the ice boat should point toward the hoist, or point more naturally toward the fly relative to what it is. Mr. Wynn Jammer, the artist of the ice boat defacement pointed out that the sail on the ice boat was positioned to tack. Therefore the boat needed to be facing toward the hoist, as it is sailing into the wind.

As the officer's flags currently represent people who typically flee from their duties, flyward facing ice boats are perfectly acceptable metaphorically.
Clay Moss, 1 April 2016

Officers' flags

The American ice yacht clubs of old appear to have preferred officers flags that were rectangular with crossing red and blue stripes, but the Alert Ice Sailing Club isn't from that era. It's no surprise then, that the officers' flags follow the American system of rectangular flags but use the British system of officers and defacements: Commodore, derived from the burgee, with no defacement; vice-commodore, derived from the burgee, with one disk; rear commodore, derived from the burgee, with two disks.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 April 2016

Alert Ice Sailing Club, British Arctic Territory (Flag Hoax)

Alert Ice Sailing Club

Burgee

Officers' flags

Commodore

Vice-Commodore

Rear Commodore