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Chelsea Yacht Club / Carthage Ice Yacht Club (U.S.)

New Jersey

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 15 July 2022

Chelsea Yacht Club / Carthage Ice Yacht Club
Officers' flags

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Chelsea Yacht Club / Carthage Ice Yacht Club

In 1881, the Carthage Ice Yacht Association was formed. In 1890 they made it official as the Carthage Ice Yacht Club. The Chelsea Yacht Club happens to show some of the By-Laws of that time, among which:
Chapter VIII: The distinguishing Signal of the Club shall be a blue swallow-tail Burgee, with a red border, containing the letters C.I.Y.C. in white.
http://www.chelseayacht.org/HISTORY_OF_CYC_for_web_2.pdf

As it happens, White Wings and Black Ice has a photograph that matches that description:
http://hudsonrivericeyachting.blogspot.com/2017/12/

Carthage was later on rename Carthage Landing, to distinguish it from a location with the same name. That did not have the desired effect, so for a while, the town reverted to the location it was built on: Low Point. (There was a High Point as well, that I hope to introduce as New Hamburg.) In 1910, the name was changed to Chelsea Yacht Club. I have no idea why that was not just as confusing, considering there was a different Chelsea, and it had a yacht club that had been chartered the same year the CIYC had been.

But either way, they sell relevant burgees at http://www.chelseayacht.org/burgeesforsale.html. Now a pennant rather than a swallow-tail, and it no longer mentions the hard water, but it is indeed somewhat similar to the older flag.

Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 15 July 2022

Carthage Ice Yacht Club signal

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 15 July 2022

Officers' flags

The American Yacht List 1996 - Thomas Manning, has the wonderful innovation of listing all the flags Mr. Manning could find. Thus, it listed the flags of various ice yacht clubs, and it list the flags of the officers.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 17 July 2022

Commodore

image by Miles Li, 19 July 2022

Vice-commodore

image by Miles Li, 19 July 2022

Acting Commodore

image by Miles Li, 19 July 2022