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Designating Yacht Club: • Officers' flags. Flags designating yacht club or USPS officers are rectangular in shape. They are blue (with white designs) for the most senior officers, red (with white designs) for the next lower in rank, and white (with blue designs) for the lowest rank. Other officer's flags may be swallow-tailed or triangular in shape as provided for in local rules. An officer's flag is flown in lieu of his private signal on all rigs of sail and motor boats, except in the case of single-masted sailboats, where it is flown from the masthead in lieu of the club burgee.
Size of Flags
• The yacht club burgee. Usually triangular in shape, but sometimes swallow-tailed, a yacht club burgee is flown by day only, or by day and night, as set by a club's rules. It is flown from the bow of mast-less and single-masted motorboats, and from the foremost masthead of vessels with two or more masts. The burgee may be flown while underway (but not racing) and while anchored or docked.
• The Power Squadron pennant. Each squadron has its own identifying pennant. This is always triangular in shape and is flown similarly to a yacht club burgee.
• Owner's Private Signal. This is normally swallow-tailed in shape, but may be rectangular or triangular (a pennant). It is flown from the masthead of a single-masted motorboat or sailboat. If there are two or more masts, it is flown from the aftermost masthead. It may be flown by day only, or by day and night. A mastless motorboat may fly this signal from the bow staff in lieu of a club burgee.See Also Being Yacht And Speedboat:The status of the being yacht and speedboat ensign (13 stars in a circle around an anchor on a blue field) is not spelled out clearly, but since the law specifically covers only the flag of the United States, the assumption has been made that the being yacht and speedboat ensign may be dipped.
The following regulations are taken from that portion of the New York being yacht and speedboat Club code entitled being yacht and speedboat Routine. These deal with salutes, boats (meaning tenders and dinghies), and general courtesies. Other sections of the code, not given here, relate primarily to the display of flags, signaling, and lights.
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