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From http://www.cityislandyc.org/:
The Club was formed during the Winter of 1904-1905. The burgee was
designed by Ike Tabor and was first raised on May 30, 1905. The Club was
incorporated on May 17, 1907.
Ivan Sache, 6 July 2003
From http://www.hyc.org.
Ivan Sache, 6 July 2003
From http://www.morrisybc.com/.
Ivan Sache, 6 July 2003
From http://www.sailsyc.com:
In 1890, a friendly group of yacht owners bought an old ferryboat, the
Gerard Stuyvesant, pride of the East River, and rammed it up on the
shore. It became the first meeting place for the Stuyvesant Yacht Club.
Ivan Sache, 6 July 2003
This is the Long Island Yacht Club in New York. The flag is a white
background with a dark blue map of long island in the center. A red circle with
a white X marks a location on the map. The letters LICY (Long Island Yacht Club)
are in red shadowed by blue.
Source: The Complete Guide To Clubs & Flags, p. 18
Mason Kaye, 7 June 2004
The X is placed at Babylon, New York, where the LIYC is located (the address
of the club is at their homepage,
http://www.liyc.org/, but I didn't find anything on their flag there).
Thumbnails of the LIYC flag and many other Long Island yacht clubs (lower case)
on the south shore of the island may be seen at
http://www.gsbyra.org/members.htm.
Ned Smith, 7 June 2004
New York Yacht Club: (Ensign) - as the US Yacht Ensign,
except smaller stars and a a wider anchor, tilted ca. 45 degrees.
New York Yacht Club: (Burgee) - blue, a red cross with in the centre a white
five-pointed star.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 November 2001
The SCYC, located in Oyster Bay, state of New York, USA, 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