For more than eighty years, EYC has collected Yacht Club burgees, courtesy of members who have traveled throughout the country and around the world.
As of November 2024, we have 199 burgees in our collection. They represent 33 US States and Territories. Many of the names are familiar to folks who have traveled up and down the West Coast-- Seattle Yacht Club, Rose City Yacht Club, and San Diego Yacht Club to name a few. But we also have Yacht Club burgees from Alaska to Florida, and California to Maine.
We also have burgees from 20 foreign countries. Many of these are from places that few members will ever visit, let alone sail. These include places like the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, the Royal Tasmania Yacht Club, the Zulu Yacht Club (South Africa), or Grand Baie Yacht Club in the (Mauritius Islands). Hopefully an EYC burgee is also on display in each of these places.
Not only is it fun to see the burgees on display, but it is also fun to realize that there is a “story” behind every burgee. Perhaps the next time you travel, you can help add a new burgee and a story to our collection1.
Check out the following pages in this notebook. There you will find an
alphabetical listing of each and every burgee on display.
And just in case you are wondering, our burgees are not organized alphabetically, or chronologically. Nor are they organized by State, or Nation. To do so, would require us to constantly “reshuffle the deck” every time we received a new burgee. Rather they are simply displayed with an eye to a variety of colors and patterns. However, you will find the name and location of nearly every Yacht Club displayed on the burgees themselves.2
Fair Winds, Gary Powell
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1. If you are visiting a Yacht Club that is not listed, you can trade your EYC burgee and add to our collection. And if you do make a trade, the club will replace your EYC burgee at no cost.
2. We have two “unidentified burgees” hanging near the kitchen that we still need to identify. They are pictured on the last page of the burgee notebook.
Thanks to the hard work of Gary Powell for making these burgees available for everyone to enjoy!! There is also a binder in the clubhouse that has all the burgees in it as well.