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![[Aberdeen & Stonehaven Yacht Club]](../images/g/gb~yasyc.gif)
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]](../images/g/gb~yasyc2.gif)
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]](../images/g/gb_sc@sy.gif)
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
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