Starting the Burgee String from Scratch

Arizona Yacht Club’s long string of yacht club burgees is gone. It didn’t come home after the Birthday Regatta this year and is presumed lost or stolen. We’ve filed a police report in case it pops up on Craig’s List. Watch for it. We don’t know how many burgees were on the string, collected over decades, but it was almost certainly over 100 and probably more like 200.
So, we’re starting over.
New burgee number one is from the Lewes Yacht Club at Lewes, Delaware, at the mouth of Delaware Bay. LYC’s Susan Pisarek exchanged burgees June 25 with AYC Membership Director Mark Howell. If you’re traveling to a yacht club and would like to exchange burgees, the club will give you one to swap.
AYC member Bill Cunningham is cruising the Northeast with a bunch of our burgees and (as you’ll see below) is collecting lots of exchanges to get the string rolling.

Susan Kisarek exchanges burgees with AYC's Mark Howell.
Susan Pisparek exchanges burgees with AYC’s Mark Howell.

AYC member Bill Cunningham exchanges burgees with Johnpatrick O'Brien, Rear Commodore of Fayerweather Yacht Club in Black Rock Harbor, Connecticut.
AYC member Bill Cunningham exchanges burgees with Johnpatrick O’Brien, Rear Commodore of Fayerweather Yacht Club in Black Rock Harbor, Connecticut.