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![[Brixham Yacht Club ensign]](../images/g/gb~brx.gif)
image by Clay Moss, 22 September 2008See also:
The Brixham Yacht Club's history can be found at:
http://www.brixhamyachtclub.com/home/homemain2.html. The club's Commodore
was gracious enough to send me some actual photos of the ensign and burgee, and
these drawings are faithful to those photos. A variant shows
a crown with red dots or circles. This ensign can serve as a variant of sorts,
but all current ensigns and burgees are ordered and manufactured with
yellow/gold dots or circles. I am not sure about the crown, but the orange on
the ensign and burgee represent William of Orange who first set foot in England
on Brixham Quay.
Clay Moss, 22 September 2008
![[Brixham Yacht Club ensign]](../images/g/gb~brx2.gif)
image by Clay Moss, 22 September 2008
![[Brixham Yacht Club burgee]](../images/g/gb_brx.gif)
image by Clay Moss, 22 September 2008
Lloyd's Register of Register of Yachts - Ensigns and burgees of yacht clubs and
distinguishing flags of yachtsmen, shows special ensign and burgee of the
Brixham Yacht Club. For the ensign, it shows the crown with three red dots. For
the burgee, the crown is indeed shown with six dots, too small to determine the
colour. Yacht Club Burgees, by Colin Stewart, ste57, has this as well.
The club themselves represent it differently again, e.g. as an illustration to
the club laws:
http://www.brixhamyachtclub.com/upload/documents/BYC%20Rules%20Feb%202014-1391525827.pdf.
The World Flag Database appears to
interpret the dots as holes in the crown: red on a red field, white on a white
field. I wonder what the ground for that might be.
Peter Hans van den
Muijzenberg, 3 October 2014