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Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club (U.S.)

New York

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Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club

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Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club

The SCYC, located in Oyster Bay, state of New York, has a dark blue burgee ... very close to the well-known Brazilian jack 'cruzeiro'. If I remember correctly, there is a football team in Sao Paulo named Corinthians, and I do not know if the cruzeiro-like burgee of the SCYC is purely coincidental.
Ivan Sache, 30 August 2001

According to a manuscript from "Records of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club" in the archives of the Mystic Seaport museum in Connecticut (right across Long Island Sound from Oyster Bay), this burgee was in fact derived from the cruzeiro flag as used as a rank flag by Brazilian admirals. [Actually, it would have been a commodore's pennant, but close enough.] The burgee has been in use since soon after the club was founded as the Seawanhaka YC in 1872; the Corinthian name came from a merger. See: www.mysticseaport.org/library/manuscripts/coll/coll198/coll198br.html.

The flag is not coincidental, but not directly related to the Sao Paulo team. Apparently many yacht clubs (which the SP club began as) took the name "Corinthian" as an indication of pure amateur status, the ancient Corinthians supposedly being a people devoted to high-quality amateur undertakings. There are a number of "Corinthian" yacht clubs in England, plus others in Boston, Philadelphia, and San Francisco and elsewhere.
Joe McMillan, 1 September 2001

The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club has a blue burgee with 5 stars in a vertical line and 8 stars in a horizontal line. These together, 5 + 8 = 13 refer to the number of stars on the initial Stars and Stripes. They are not actually that same number of stars, though, as to create a single pattern out of them, one of the the stars is both in the vertical column and in the horizontal row. Therefore, the flag as a whole only has 12 stars.

I matched the pattern from Manning's American Yacht List of 1891. Manning's does not distinguish shades of blue, and the
club history only talks of "blue", so I used FotW blue. If anyone has a source that says otherwise ...

Manning's in those years also had officers' flags, so I list here:

Commodore

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Vice-Commodore

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Rear Commodore

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Acting-Commodore

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Fleet Captain

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It should be noted that the Acting-Commodore flag is in fact the common pattern. Likewise, the Fleet Captain's flag is only of
note as being a broad pennant; otherwise it's not notably different from the common pattern.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 August 2022