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Bay City Boat and Fishing Club (U.S.)

Michigan

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 June 2015

Description of the flag

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Description of the flag

The Bay City Boat and Fishing Club was organised in 1894 as the first boat club on the Saginaw River. On 1 January 1895, the club opened its clubhouse: Foot of Scheurmann Street, Essexville. I was unable to find whether a burgee went with that very first name; by 1897, however, the club apparently had changed its name, as it was now referred to as the "Bay City Boat Club".

By 1904 the club moved their house to a new location. Literally: In the Winter they moved the original clubhouse over the ice to the new site, and afterwards built a new club house attached to it.

Lloyd's Register of American Yachts, 1917, pictures the burgee of the Bay City Boat Club as: A very dark blue broad pennant with a sharp split, with white flywise edges, and with in white the text "B.C.B.C.", slightly lower at the hoist.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 June 2015

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 June 2015

Lloyd's Register of American Yachts, 1929, pictures a slightly different burgee, for the club, which is then named "Bay City Yacht Club": A very dark blue broad pennant with a sharp split, with off-set white flywise edges, and with in white the text "BCYC.", shrinking towards the fly.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 13 June 2015