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Bayside Yacht Club (U.S.)

New York

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 August 2015

Bayside Yacht Club

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Bayside Yacht Club

According to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 8 September 1910, page 70, bklyn.newspapers.com/image/53910892, covering the Long Island yacht clubs, the Bay Side Yacht Club was founded in 1902, with Little Neck Bay as its home waters.

Lloyd's Register for American Yachts, 1905, shows a burgee for the club:
A blue circa 6:11 triangle. bearing in the hoist a white hoistward chevron and beyond that a small red disk.
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 August 2015

Later in the article, the Eagle calls the club the "Bayside Yacht Club", which has a certain logic, given that its station was Bayside, Long Island. Indeed, later editions list the club thus as well, at least as late as 1929. By then the burgee is depicted more as a 2:3 triangle though, and the red disk apparently has moved hoistward so it's halfway between the arms of the chevron.
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 August 2015
I don't know whether this was indeed a development of the burgee, or merely of its depictions.

The Bayside Historical Society lists the club as having "closed it[s] doors" in 1994, though I'm not sure whether this refers to the organisation being dissolved or the building being closed.
www.hoflink.com/~bayside/baymapx3.html#16

On the other hand, the Soverel 33 quick links still list a Bayside Yacht Club, www.soverel33.com/Quicklinks/YCandA/NY/Links.html, even with a photographed burgee, which image unfortunately is too small to recreate accurately. (Not having the red disk it looks a lot like the Buffalo Canoe Club, though.)

Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 August 2015