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Cruising Yacht Club of Australia

Rushcutters Bay, New South Wales

image by Ivan Sache, 29 Jul 2006

Cruising Yacht Club of Australia
Burgee
Ensign

See also:

Cruising Yacht Club of Australia

The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA) is located in Darling Point, next to the Rushcutters Bay Park, near central Sydney, New South Wales. It was formed in 1944; the next year, a planned cruise to Hobart (Tasmania) quickly turned into a race and the famous Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race was born. The race attracted competitors from all around the word and is now considered as the Everest of ocean racing. The next race will start on 26 December 2006. A CCYA team came close second at the famous Admiral's Cup in England in 1965 and won the Cup in 1967. The CYCA has today almost 3,000 members.

Sources:
CYCA website
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race official website (by CYCA)
Ivan Sache, 29 July 2006

Burgee

The burgee of CYCA is blue with the Crux Australis constellation in yellow. All the graphical representations of the burgee found on websites, clothes, umbrellas etc. are triangular, but the real burgee, as sold by the CYCA, is trapezoid, the point of the triangle at fly being truncated.

Source: CYCA website
Ivan Sache, 29 July 2006

Ensign

image by Clay Moss, 28 Feb 2006

I am in the process of trying to find out if this ensign is correct as I think it possible that the letters "CYCA" may make up the actual defacement. but until I have definitive proof, here's what we think it looks like based on a verbal description.

The CYCA was itself established in 1944 according to its website, but at a cursory glance, there's no mention of when the ensign came into use.
Clay Moss, 28 February 2006

First appeared in the Navy List of yacht clubs using a special ensign in 1954.
David Prothero, 1 March 2006