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Aberdeen and Stonehaven Yacht Club

[Aberdeen & Stonehaven Yacht Club] image by Peter Edwards, 17 February 2018

Aberdeen and Stonehaven Yacht Club (United Kingdom)

Estb: 1969.
Locations: Loch of Skene and Stonehaven, Scotland.
Burgee: Pennant. "The buildings on the burgee are the gatehouses to the Dunecht estate at the Loch of Skene. ASYC sail at the Loch of
Skene during the spring, which is a loch on the Dunecht estate, and the clubhouse facilities are in the basement of one of the gatehouses."
Note: The club's access to two sailing sites is the result of a merger in 1969 between two previous clubs, Aberdeen Sailing Club and Stonehaven Yacht Club.
Sources: http://asyc.org.uk/ Image, International Burgee Registry.
Acknowledgement: Quote, Hamish McLullich, Secretary ASYC.
Peter Edwards, 17 February 2018

[Aberdeen & Stonehaven Yacht Club]image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 22 February 2018

I tried to find a different image, but it is rather small. I include it here as it shows details slightly differently: The towers look more like mirror images, and there appears to be an actual gate between the posts. And of course, ratio and shade of blue are different. Source is the ASYC newsletter, "Overboard", of October 2017:
http://asyc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017_10-ASYC-Newsletter.pdf.

There's a clearer photograph of the design at http://www.elyc.org.uk/page-746075/5043330, but I've yet to see an actual burgee.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 22 February 2018


Stonehaven Yacht Club

[Stonehaven Yacht Club]image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 22 February 2018

A Stonehaven Yacht Club is pictured in Ensigns and Burgees of Yacht Clubs and Distinguishing Flags of Yachtsmen [1961], flags supplement or companion of Lloyd's Register of Yachts. The 1963 Register of Yachts lists the club as Est. 1958, with a clubhouse at Shorehead, Stonehaven, which would seem to match. The burgee is 2:3, blue with a yellow saltire, with SYC in yellow one letter each in the hoist top and fly quarters.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 22 February 2018


Aberdeen Sailing Club

The Aberdeen Sailing Club is listed in Lloyd's 1963 as well: Est. 1951. No burgee is pictured in the 1961 flags publication, but as the merged club having two sites is caused by the two original clubs each having one of these sites, the Aberdeen must have been the club at Loch of Skene. It would seem very likely that the current burgee, which shows the Dunech estate site, was the original burgee of the ASC, especially as this would mean the burgee of the older of the two clubs was kept in the merger.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 22 February 2018