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Sydney Amateur Sailing Club (Australia)

Mosman, New South Wales

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[Sydney Amateur Sailing Club burgee] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 June 2022


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The Sydney Amateur Sailing Club was established in 1872. Its current membership is 400.
The burgee of the SASC is white with a thin blue cross.

Source: SASC website
Ivan Sache, 9 September 2003

On 1 October 1872, in Sydney a club was formed for boats of small class. Mind you, these might still be yachts, but with a 22 feet overall limit. Thus was born the Sydney Amateur Sailing Club (SASC). One of the first decisions the new club took, was to remove the limit in size, thus the SASC became a complete sailing club.

In its Constitution, dated 12 September 1962, the club mentions its flags:
13 Flags and Club Burgee
13.1 Club Burgee and Racing Flag
(a) The Club Burgee is a white triangular pennant with a deep blue cross.

[Sydney Amateur Sailing Club burgee] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 June 2022

(b) The Club Racing Flag is white rectangular flag with a deep blue letter ‘A’.

[Sydney Amateur Sailing Club] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 June 2022

13.2 Flag Officers' Burgees
(i) The Commodore’s burgee is a white rectangular flag with swallow tail and deep blue cross.

[Sydney Amateur Sailing Club] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 June 2022

(ii) The Vice-Commodore’s burgee is a similar flag with one black ball in upper canton.

[Sydney Amateur Sailing Club] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 June 2022

(iii) The Rear Commodore’s burgee is a similar flag with two black balls.

[Sydney Amateur Sailing Club] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 June 2022

iv) The Captain’s burgee is a similar flag with black balls in one upper canton and both lower cantons.

[Sydney Amateur Sailing Club] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 June 2022

(v) A retired Commodore’s burgee is a similar flag with the letter ‘R’ in the lower canton.

[Sydney Amateur Sailing Club] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 June 2022

13.3 Club Ensign
The club ensign shall be the Australian Red ensign.

[Sydney Amateur Sailing Club] image by António Martins, 28 November 2005

Though I followed the constitution where the racing flag is concerned, the one I actually saw depicted was the Racing A Flag in the club's shop: https://sasc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Merchandise-1.jpg
The Vice- and Rear, and in this case also the Fleet Captain all suffer from the lack of precision regarding the size and location of the balls. Note, BTW, that the balls are black, even though the club's charges are otherwise very dark blue.