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Atlantic Yacht Club (U.S.)

New York

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Atlantic Yacht Club
Officers' Flags

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Atlantic Yacht Club

Atlantic Yacht Club, www.atlanticyachtclub.com, is located at New York Harbor. The Atlantic Yacht Club was founded in 1866, by members from the Brooklyn Yacht Club, to promote recreational sailing in New York Harbor. Around the turn of the century it was very active, but later became less so. By 1963 it was no longer listed in Lloyd's Register of American Yachts. Currently the Atlantic Yacht Club is more of a family sailing club, with a focus on the purpose from 1866.

The burgee of the club is depicted in Lloyd's Register of American Yachts, 1903, as a ca. 4:7 white triangular with a lying red A, its legs a border along the flywise edges, its bar angled towards the hoist.

Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 26 May 2015

Officers' Flags

Commodore

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Vice-Commodore

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Rear Commodore

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Acting Commodore

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American Yacht List, 1891, lists four officers' flags for the Atlantic Yacht Club: Commodore, Vice-Commodore, Rear Commodore, Acting Commodore. These follow a pattern seen more often, with the first three being white on blue, white on red and red on white broad pennants, bearing the charge of the burgee combined with stars, and the last simply a blue broad pennant. The latter should probably be considered a generic Acting Commodore flag as there's no feature on it that indicates the club.

In this case the charge is a lying capital A, between the hoist and the split, charged with 16 stars. (I have no idea why that number.)

The pattern depicted for rear-commodore is somewhat different in that the panels enclosed by the A are blue, rather than white. It may be the blue in this drawing is a colouring error only, but I have no way to verify. I also don't know whether these flags are still in use today.

Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 26 May 2015