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![[Sydney Amateur Sailing Club burgee]](../images/a/au~sasc.gif)
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.
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]](../images/a/au~sascrf.gif)
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]](../images/a/au~sasccm.gif)
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]](../images/a/au~sasccv.gif)
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]](../images/a/au~sasccr.gif)
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]](../images/a/au~sasccp.gif)
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]](../images/a/au~sascrc.gif)
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]](../images/a/au~red.gif)
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.
