# Burgee

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{{Short description|Flag of a sailing club or yacht club}}
[[File:New York Yacht Club Burgee.png|thumb|Burgee of the [New York Yacht Club](/source/New_York_Yacht_Club)]]
A '''burgee''' ({{tooltip|prob. ult.|probably ultimately; see Dictionary.com, OED, etc.}} from [French](/source/French_language) {{wikt-lang|fr|bourgeois}}, "owner (of a ship)") is a distinguishing [flag](/source/flag), regardless of its shape, of a recreational boating organization.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150920224048/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/es/definicion/ingles/burgee Oxford University Press]</ref> In most cases, they have the shape of a [pennant](/source/pennon).

==Etiquette==
[Yacht club](/source/Yacht_club)s and their members may fly their club's burgee while under way and at anchor, day or night. Sailing vessels may fly the burgee either from the main masthead or from a [halyard](/source/halyard) under the lowermost starboard [spreader](/source/Spreader_(sailboat)).<ref>{{cite book |first=John |last=Rousmaniere |author-link=John Rousmaniere |title=The Annapolis Book of Seamanship |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=1999 |edition=3rd |isbn=978-0-684-85420-5 |page=370 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xRqzoX04v5AC&pg=PA370 |access-date=June 30, 2011}}</ref>  Most powerboats (i.e. those lacking any mast or having a single mast) fly the burgee off a short [staff](/source/Flagpole) at the bow; two-masted power vessels fly the burgee at the [foremast](/source/foremast).

==Flag officers==
The [officers of a yacht club](/source/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](/source/Canton_(flag))). A past-commodore may also be given a distinctively-shaped flag.<ref>'Flags and Signals' by Cdr R.L. Hewitt, Royal Yachting Association 1969, 1984</ref>

==Personal burgees==
Personal burgees are called [private signal](/source/private_signal)s, and have also been designed and flown for over one hundred years.<ref>{{cite book |last=Graham |first=Thomas |date=2014 |title=Mr. Flagler's St. Augustine |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvx06xrr |publisher=University Press of Florida |page=351-378 |isbn=978-0813049373}}</ref> Much like club or burgees of rank, personal burgees must be distinct to the owner, but unlike the former, are often swallow-tailed.

==See also==
*{{Portal-inline|Transport}}
*[Broad pennant](/source/Broad_pennant)
*[Civil ensign](/source/Civil_ensign)
*[Courtesy flag](/source/Courtesy_flag)
*[Ensign](/source/Ensign_(flag))
*[Maritime flag](/source/Maritime_flag)
*[Naval ensign](/source/Naval_ensign)

==References==
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==External links==
{{Wiktionary}}
{{Commons}}
*[http://www.seaflags.us/yachting/yc.html Flags of yacht clubs]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110219125047/http://www.clyc.net/burgees.htm Crystal Lake Yacht Club's burgee collection]

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Category:Maritime flags

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