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Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron (Australia)

St Kilda, Victoria

image by Clay Moss

Description
Burgee

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Description

The Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron flies the undefaced British blue as their special yacht ensign. The club's history can be found on their website
Clay Moss, 19 July 2007

Australian Yacht Clubs currently (2009 Navy List) Entitled to a Special Ensign.
Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron.
1924. Warrant for plain Blue Ensign.
David Prothero, 6 February 2015

Burgee

image by Clay Moss, 10 Sep 2007

Mr. Neil Freeman provided me with the spec sheet for the burgee.
Clay Moss, 19 July 2007

We don't have those specifications, but from the image, they appear to be something like:
A burgee with ratio 1:2, red with a centred white cross whose arms are 1/10 of the fly in width, with a crown at the centre of burgee and cross, and a white seven-pointed star one point straight up, its spanning circle with a diameter of 1/4th the hoist centred in the upper quadrant.

I found a photograph at the squadron's own website, at http://www.rmys.com.au/?Page=56036 [no longer available] that is different from our image, where the cross is not centred, having it shifted much further towards the hoist, and the star appears to be smaller as well, maybe only as wide as an arm of the cross. As the photograph is newer than our image, I wonder: Don't they keep to their own specifications, or have they changed those specifications since Clay made our image?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 28 February 2012