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The officers of a yacht club may fly various burgees appropriate to their rank: for example, the commodore may fly a swallow-tailed version of the club burgee (and the vice- and rear-commodores the same, but distinguished by the addition of one or two balls respectively at the canton). A past-commodore may also be given a distinctively-shaped flag.
The club was founded and first organized in 1894 under the name "Neptune Yacht Club". The name was soon changed to "Huguenot Yacht Club" (HYC) to commemorate the founders of the community, the Huguenots, who settled the area after fleeing religious persecution in France. The club opened its doors on January 1, 1895 and officially incorporated ...
The Ocean Cruising Club (OCC) is an international club for cruisers. Members are identified by a distinctive blue and yellow burgee with a stylized Flying Fish on the blue part of the flag. Founded in 1954 by the late Humphrey Barton after his east–west crossing of the Atlantic in the 25 foot Vertue XXXV, [1] the club exists to promote long ...
From 1888 to 1893, the Cape Florida lighthouse was leased by the United States Secretary of the Treasury for a total of US$1.00 (20 cents per annum) to the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club for use as its headquarters. It was listed as the southernmost yacht club in the United States, and the tallest in the world.
A pig stick (occasionally pigstick [1] or pig-stick [2]) is a staff that carries a flag or pennant, usually the burgee of the boat owner's yacht club or private signal, above a mast of a sailboat. [3]
Ruff's Mill and Concord Covered Bridge: 1864, 1872 1980-11-24 Smyrna: Cobb: Covered: Watson Mill Covered Bridge and Mill Historic District: 1868, 1885, ca. 1906 1991-09-05 Comer: Oglethorpe: Covered Town lattice truss
Buccaneer Yacht Club (abbreviated formally as BucYC or in local tradition as BYC) is a member-run sailing club which has operated out of Mobile Bay, Alabama since 1928. It is a member club of the Gulf Yachting Association and the United States Sailing Association .
The DYC is unique among yacht clubs in the United States because it is the only American yacht club to offer athletic recreation besides yachting and golf, and one of five American yacht clubs to offer athletic recreation besides yachting. [2] It was among the first yacht clubs founded in the United States in the 19th century. [3] [4]