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![[Pennant of the Segelclub Brienzersee ]](../images/c/ch~be@bs.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 November 2013
The burgee of the Segelclub Brienzersee can be found as a large
scale drawing on the pages of the club's websites,
http://www.scb.ch.gg/ and
http://sc-brienzersee.npage.de/.
It's a blue triangular burgee, 4:7, with a narrow yellow border and an even
more narrow flywise yellow centre line, the latter interrupted by a blue
disk fimbriated yellow bearing a yellow emblem. The emblem consists of the
letters "scb", forming the body of a sailing boat, with the "b" forming the
mast, with on it a sail, and the bow, and the "s" forming the stern, from
which the lower line continues as the boat's wake.
Segelclub
Brienzersee (SCB), Lake Brienz Sailing Club, is a sailing club that probably
has Lake Brienz as its home waters, and as the entire lake is in Canton
Bern, I expect the club is in that canton as well. The club's webpages are
very short on general information.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 November 2013
![[Pennant of the Segel Club Cham]](../images/c/ch~zh@sc.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 October 2013
A photograph of the burgee of the Segel Club Cham can be seen in the
club's shop, http://www.scc.ch/shop,
and the site includes various graphics as well. The club's statutes (http://www.scc.ch/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/Statuten-Segel-Club-Cham.pdf)
describe it as:
"Farben § 4
Die Farben des SCC sind: blauer
Wappenmantel mit rotem Balken und einem weissen fünfzackigen Stern im ersten
Drittel der Basis."
Something like:
(Colours $ 4
The colours of the
SCC are: Blue coat with red stripe an a white five-pointed star in the first
third of the base.)
I can't match "in the first third of the base"
with any of the images, so I've mostly followed the photograph instead. I
made it a triangular 3:5 blue burgee with a lengthwise red stripe, with over
all a white five-pointed star, pointing towards the hoist. I used a stripe,
1/6th the height of the hoist in width, and a star constructed within a
circle half the height of the flag in diameter. I placed the star with its
centre half the height of the hoist from the hoist. As a logo, the burgee is
also used with an upright star.
The description in the statutes might
tell us more, if understood correctly. It might be that the intention is
that the star is much closer to the hoist, but an older illustration would
be needed to verify that.
The Segel Club Cham (SCC),
Cham Sailing Club, started its life as the
Cham Group of the Segelgilde Zugersee, the latter having been founded in
1942 in Cham and the two groups having been formed in 1943. As the groups
grew larger, in 1947 they became independent. Thus 22 March 1947 the Segel
Club Cham came into existence. The club has always been located at
Cham, in the northwest corner of Lake Zug. The
SCC aims for sailors to actively sail their boats. For this they educate
young and old, and since moorings are limited the club also encourages joint
use of boats.
Their predecessor, the Segelgilde Zugersee, had a
burgee as well. It may be this was the burgee used today by the Segel Club
Cham, but so far I've not heard from either club to confirm or deny that.
I've not been able to find other information on the SGZ so far either.
Considering the burgees of the two clubs, it would seem likely that the
burgee of the SGZ contained a five-pointed star.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segel-Club Enge]](../images/c/ch~zh@se.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 26 September 2013
The burgee of Segel-Club Enge can be found as drawings at several pages of
the club website, like
http://www.segelclubenge.ch and
http://www.segelclubenge.ch/dokumente/YWB_09_DYN.html. A photograph can be
found in the club shop:
http://www.segelclubenge.ch/images/shop. As all these differ, I've tried to
find a middle ground: A triangular 3:5 blue field with a red and yellow lying T,
with the width of the arms of the T being 1/3rd of the length of the hoist, and
the yellow making up the centre half of each arm. What the meaning of these
yellow crossing lines fimbriated red on a blue field is, I don't know, but at
least three other clubs on the Zürichsee have such a design. The burgee was
designed by Walter Frey, and probably adopted on 9 April 1937 as the club was
founded.
A text on the 75 year jubilee (http://www.segelclubenge.ch/dokumente/Jubilar.pdf)
shows quite a different flag as club house flag. It's a high flag, at least 5:1,
white, with at the top a depiction of the burgee, and along the fly edge "SCE
Segel-club Enge" in sans all caps, the first three letters black and almost half
as high as the flag is deep, the rest in smaller grey letters.
The Segel-Club
Enge (SCE) is, as the name indicates, located in Enge,
on the west coast of the Zürichsee. In the Spring 1937 almost all sailing
members of the Segel-und Motorbootclub Zürich left that club because they felt
the club was obstructing them. On 9 April 1937 22 members founded the Segelclub
Enge. The membership has since grown to more than 400, making the SCE one of the
larger clubs in Switzerland.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg,
26 September 2013
![[Pennant of the Segel Club Männedorf]](../images/c/ch~zh@sm.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 September 2013
In the first year of the existence of Segel Club Männedorf, the club's burgee
was designed by W. Pfister jr.. No formal adoption is mentioned, but the burgee
is described in the statutes. It's shown as a graphic on the club website (http://www.segelclub.ch),
is visible on a photograph (http://www.segelclub.ch/regatten/2005/ZuerichseeCup05_Winner.JPG),
and is in use as a logo on the club documents (http://www.segelclub.ch/kontakt/Interessenten/Statuten_2007.pdf).
The burgee is a triangular 2:3 flag, with 9 black and yellow tapering stripes,
the outer ones half the width of the others, charged with a counter-changed
silhouette of a main sail and spinnaker.
According to the statutes:
"15. Stander Der Clubstander des SCMd ist in den Gemeindefarben gelb und
schwarz gehalten, in dem gelbe und schwarze Streifen alternierend in der
Spitze des Standers zusammenlaufen. Durch Versetzen der Streifen entsteht das
Bild eines stilisierten Grosssegels mit Spinnaker."
(15. Burgee The club
burgee of the SCMd was kept in the Municipal colours, by having alternating
yellow and black stripes converge in the tip of the burgee. Through
displacement of the stripes an image of a stylised main sail and spinnaker
emerges.)
Segel Club Männedorf (SCMd) is located in
Männedorf,
directly on the water. This places it more or less in the middle of the
Zürichsee, with an superb view of the lake. The club was founded on 24 May
1973, with the obvious intention to take part in competitive sailing.
Currently it has approximately 350 members, and competitive sailing is still
a large part of the club's activity. (No reason is given for the unusual "Segel
Club", rather than "Segelclub".)
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg,
21 September 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Neuhaus-Interlaken]](../images/c/ch~be@ni.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 November 2013
The burgee of Segelclub Neuhaus-Interlaken is only visible as graphics on
their website, http://www.scni.ch, where it is
drawn as a 3:5 triangle with a yellow field with a wide blue border around it,
and over both shaped black letters "SCNI", and around the entire design a narrow
yellow border. There are, however, slight variations between the drawings.
Segelclub Neuhaus-Interlaken (SCNI), Neuhaus-Interlaken Sailing Club, is
located in Interlaken though at Neuhaus, which is on
the Lake Thun shore. The club was founded 27 April 1972, and makes a point of
not targeting a specific type of member, other than people who enjoy sailing.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 November 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Oberer Zürichsee]](../images/c/ch~sz@oz.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 October 2013
A graphic of the burgee of the Segelclub Oberer Zürichsee can be found on the
pages of the club's website. A photograph of it
can be seen in a list of Zürichsee-Segelverbandes (1976) burgees (http://www.scoz.ch/index.jsp?nodeId=11483).
Apparently it's a 3:5 triangle, with a white sail-like shape separating the red
upper hoist from the blue field. At the foot of the shape a yellow circle.
André Cemin, president of the SCOZ, let me know that 'The flag shows you the
"view from the top of the mast" (Yellow dot) dawn on the foresail (jib-white) to
the water (blue). The red partition on the top left together with the white sail
also resembles the official colors of the Swiss National Flag as well as the
colors of the Swiss district (Kanton) where the SCOZ is home based.' (The canton
being Schwyz itself.)
The burgee was designed in
1974 by Hans Uster, one of the founders of the SCOZ.
The Segelclub Oberer
Zürichsee Name (SCOZ) was founded in 1974. The club has the Obersee as its home
waters, and the Yachthafen Kiebitz in Nuolen, in Wangen
commune, as its home harbour. Primarily the club members sail recreational
on the lake's waters, but they also sail competitive, there and elsewhere in
Switzerland, and a growing number also sail the seas.
Other flags:
- Harbour feast photographs show a
KIBAG pennant, whatever that is.
- At
http://www.scoz.ch/NeoDownload?docId=403687 I encountered a mention that the
club's rescue boats are marked with an orange flag. I don't know whether this is
club-specific or general for all of Switzerland, though.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Pfäffikon SZ]](../images/c/ch~sz@sp.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 October 2013
With the help of Cornelia Kegele of the SCPF I was able to put together the
following report:
A drawing of the Segelclub Pfäffikon SZ burgee at good
resolution can be found at the club website at
http://www.scpf.ch/clubdesk/fileservlet?type=image&inline=true&id=1000000,
though I could not find the page it is linked from. It's an approximately 3:7
triangular blue field with a yellow off-set cross fimbriated red.
The
Segelclub Pfäffikon SZ (SCPF) was founded on 24 October 1963. The burgee was
created shortly after the foundation of the club. The members of the
Segler-Vereinigung Thalwil protested against the design, however, as their
burgee already had a blue field with a cross and crossing yellow stripes
fimbriated red. However, the SCPF decided to keep the design as it was.
The club's home-town is Pfäffikon in Freienbach next
to the Seedamm. The SCDF club house is in the former brickworks, and the club
built itself a harbour on the south shore of the Zürichsee. There, a club flag
flies from a flag mast on the pier, with the same design as the burgee as that's
the only flag design the club uses. The SCPF currently has about a hundred
members.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Schloss Greifensee]](../images/c/ch~zh@sg2.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 October 2013
The burgee of the Segelclub Schloss Greifensee can be found on the front page
of the club website,
http://www.segelclub-scsg.ch. A photograph
of it can be seen in a list of
Zürichsee-Segelverbandes (1976) burgees (http://www.scoz.ch/index.jsp?nodeId=11483).
Though these don't match precisely, it appears to be a 3:5 triangular yellow
field with a red tricross, with arms with a width of 1/5th the length of the
hoist. A graphic where the burgee bears the letters SCSG can be found on
a website page as well. Until I learn otherwise, I'll assume this is only a
graphic, whatever the purpose of adding lettering to the burgee may be.
The colours of the burgee are those of the community
Greifensee.
Segelclub Schloss Greifensee (SCSG) was founded on 14 May
1949, by a group of only 5 charter members. It has grown to a club of more than
200 members. Greifensee is the club's home, and the lake of the same name are
its home waters. The club is proud of its national, European and world
championship medal-winners, but stresses that recreational sailing is as
important as competitive sailing. The SCSG also stresses fellowship and teaching
youth. Exactly why the club is named after Greifensee Castle, is not mentioned
on their website.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Schloss Greifensee]](../images/c/ch~sz@ss.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 October 2013
The burgee of the Segelclub Sihlsee is only visible as a logo on the club's
website and documents (http://www.segelclub-sihlsee.ch).
It's a blue triangle of approximately 5:8, with a charge in white. The charge
looks like three images of film, but I would not know why such a charge would be
on a burgee, so I expect it's something else.
Segelclub Sihlsee (SCS),
Sihlsee Sailing Club, is located in Einsiedeln. Its
home water is the Sihlsee, Switzerland's largest artificial lake. It may be that
the character of the lake means that cruising is not very interesting, but in
any case the club seems to focus an competitive sailing and training children
and youngsters.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub vom Greifensee]](../images/c/ch~zh@gs.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 October 2013
The burgee of the Segelclub vom Greifensee can be seen as a graphic on, among other places, the front page of the club, and as a photograph in a list of Zürichsee-Segelverbandes (1976) burgees (http://www.scoz.ch/index.jsp?nodeId=11483). Following the photograph, I'd say it's a blue triangular flag in a ratio of 6:11, with a white line with a width of slightly more than 1/11th of the length of the hoist through the middle. Parallel to it, above it, the last one slightly overlapping it, five stripes of the same width, red and white, so long that the top stripe is cut diagonally by the flag's edge.
Exact design: No
formal description found. Though the photograph shows overlapping, it may be
that this is not part of the design. Also, the ratio may in reality be
different.
Meaning: The five red over white stripes obviously come from the
municipal flag of Uster.
It took the people of Uster a while to realise that the Greifensee could be
used for sailing. After the Segelclub vom Greifensee (SCvG) was founded in
1943, their next problem was to convince the rest of Switzerland that sailing
on such a puddle was indeed possible. Where in the first year, regattas were
sailed with shore start, in the years since then it turned out that the
puddle could even be used to organise Swiss Championships on. Nowadays the
club supports both recreational and competitive sailing, even if they are
justifiably proud of the club members who sail competitively in the Olympic
Games.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Wendelsee]](../images/c/ch~be@ws1.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segelclub Wendelsee]](../images/c/ch~be@ws2.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 October 2013
The burgee of Segelclub Wendelsee can be found as a logo on the club
website, http://www.scwe.ch, and the documents
on it. It's a triangular flag with a black hoist and red fly, the two separated
with a shaped W the two outer tips of which form the hoist corners. Presumably
the W stands for "Wendelsee". The logos do not all show the exact same design,
though, differing in the style of W used, and in the ratio. As I could not find
specifications or a photograph, I settled on an average 2:3 burgee, showing one
with a W with an sharp inner point and one with a blunt inner tip.
Counter to what the name suggests, the home water of Segelclub
Wendelsee, Lake Wendel Sailing Club, is not Lake Wendel, as the club is not
old enough for that. "Lake Wendel" was, more than a millennium ago, the name
for the combination of Lake Brienz and Lake Thun before the lakes were
separated, and may have remained the old name for Lake Thun for a number of
centuries afterwards. Segelclub Wendelsee (SCWe) was founded 15 May 1975.
Their home water is the lake now named "Lake Thun", where they strive to
further both the activeness and cosiness aspects of sailing. As their
clubhouse is in the boat house of Ruderclub Thun, the location of the SCWe
must be Thun, though they don't seem to
mention it anywhere.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg]](../images/c/ch~zh@hb1.gif)
![[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg]](../images/c/ch~zh@hb2.gif)
images by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 October 2013
The burgee of Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg can be seen as a graphic on the
pages of the club's website, where it appears to
be 2:3. A photograph of an actual burgee in the club shop, however, shows that
it really has a 3:4 ratio. It's a triangular blue field with three yellow wavy
lines of two waves. Though the charges are probably indeed meant as waves, they
may refer to the three yokes in the municipal flag.
There is a flag for
the club house. The terrain rules even require the members to hoist it on longer
stays. This might be the flag that we see hanging in the tent during the 40 year
celebration. It is similar to the burgee, but 3:5 and with more massive charges.
Club:
Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg (SYH), Herrliberg Sail and Yacht
Club, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2013, so they were probably founded
in 1973. The club is apparently located in Herrliberg
on the east coast of Lake Zurich, though I could find no mention of their
location on their current website. Apparently they target the local population,
who would know where to find them. To these, the club is "more than sailing",
according to their tag.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 October 2013
![[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen]](../images/c/ch~gl@gw.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, November 2013
A graphic on the website of the Segel- und Motorbootclub Glarnerland und Walensee, http://www.smcgw.ch, shows a waving and rippling burgee. It's a 4:7 red over black over red, 3:4:3 burgee with tapering stripes. Spanning the black is a white compass star, its centre 1/4th of the length of the hoist away from the hoist.
![[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen]](../images/c/ch~gl@gw1.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, November 2013
The Dumpy Pocket
Book of Sailing Dinghies and Yachts [ele60?], shows a similar design, but with a
larger star, extending some length into the red. This is also how
the SMCGM burgee logo is depicted on at least one shared document on the SCOW
website, e.g. http://www.scow.ch/regatta/fairplay_text.gif. What seems to
be a more recent document,
http://www.scow.ch/regatta/junioren/junioren.htm, shows the logo as it is
currently visible on the SMCGW website. It may be the burgee, or at least the
flagoid, changed recently to a smaller star version.
Segel- und
Motorbootclub Glarnerland und Walensee (SMC GW), Glanerland and Lake Walen
Sailing and Motor Boat Club, was founded in 1955. Though originally harboured
in Weesen itself on the lower, west end
of Lake Walen, over time it transferred to a harbour a kilometre to the
south-east. Appropriately, this has moved the club across the canton border
into canton Glarus. The club has developed
the harbour further, and now offers its members space for both yachts and
motor boats.
As the two clubs share the Walensee, the SMC GW organises
activities together with the SCOW.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, November 2013
![[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen]](../images/c/ch~zh@sw.gif)
image by
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 September 2013
The statutes of the Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen correctly refer to the
often-overlooked point that boats should do their burgee justice: The board can
refuse a poorly maintained ship the right to fly the burgee.
http://www.sycw.ch/index.php/de/79-sycw/73-nutzungsbedingungen
The statutes do not, on the other hand, tell us what that burgee looks like.
The drawing that is used as a logo on the web site (www.sycw.ch),
however, is a yellow triangular field with a black lying T that doesn't reach
the hoist. Assuming that the arms are supposed to be equally wide, the flag
would have to be approximately 1:2. I couldn't find any other details regarding
the burgee, except that maybe the club had different burgees to go with the
different names.
Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen (SYCW) was founded on 7
January 1948, for the purpose of fellowship and providing winter storage for the
boats. Originally, the club was named "Pirat" (Pirate). A mention is made of a "Piraten-Abzeichen"
(pirate badge), but I don't know whether that would mean an actual badge, and a
burgee showing it. As the name of the club was not understood in the spirit it
was chosen in, the club in 1951 changed their name: First to "Neuer Segelclub
Zürich", and when the Zürcher Segelclub immediately took legal action against
that choice, secondly to "Segel- und Motorbootclub“, as there were some
motorboats in the club as well. Their website doesn't say whether that was just
"Segel- und Motorbootclub" or rather "Segel- und Motorbootclub Zürich". If the
latter, that means the club that of that name that the SCE split off from in
1937 must have ended its existence before then.
Later members began
moving their boats to the new harbour in Wollishofen
on the west shore of the Zürichsee, and as the "Motorboot" part of their name
harmed their image of a sailing club, as their fourth name the club picked "Segel-
und Yachtclub Wollishofen". On their website, the club also writes the name as "Segel
und Yacht Club Wollishofen". The club may have had earlier burgees that went
with the earlier names. Apart from the mention of a "Piraten-Abzeichen", the WVR
have a burgee in their club house looking like a yellow burgee with a black
lying T on it with on the T the letters SMCZ and what looks like a fouled anchor
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/wvrrichti/5003445987).
Is this burgee from the "Segel- und Motorbootclub" era, I wonder?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg,
27 September 2013
