{"id":648,"date":"2012-04-19T07:47:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.171.78.101\/wordpress\/?p=648"},"modified":"2012-04-19T07:47:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:47:55","slug":"sailing-trivia-burgee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/sailing-trivia\/sailing-trivia-burgee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Trivia &#8211; Burgee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q. What is a burgee?<br \/>\nA. A <strong>burgee<\/strong> is a distinguishing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag\">flag<\/a>, regardless of its shape, of a recreational boating organization.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yacht_club\">Yacht clubs<\/a> and their members may fly their club&#8217;s burgee while underway and at anchor, day or night, but not while racing. Sailing vessels may fly the burgee from the main masthead or from a lanyard under the starboard spreader on the mast.<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burgee#cite_note-0\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> Power boats fly the burgee off a short staff on the bow.<br \/>\nTraditionally, the first time a member of one yacht club visits another, there is an exchange of burgees. Exchanged burgees are then often displayed on the club&#8217;s premises, e.g., in the office or bar. On &#8220;Opening Day&#8221;, sailors fly their burgees together.<br \/>\nThere is a free international registry of burgess where any club can register their design: <strong>To Register Your Burgee &#8212; send an e-mail to <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:Halling@Burgees.com\"><strong>Halling@Burgees.com<\/strong><\/a><strong> and include your web address, or an image of the burgee.\u00a0 Registering your burgee in the International Burgee Registry is FREE<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe origin of the word probably comes from French dialect <em>bourgeais<\/em> or literally shipowner, first Known Use: 1750<\/p>\n<p>By Tradewinds Instructor Ian Joseph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. What is a burgee? A. A burgee is a distinguishing flag, regardless of its shape, of a recreational boating organization. Yacht clubs and their members may fly their club&#8217;s burgee while underway and at anchor, day or night, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/sailing-trivia\/sailing-trivia-burgee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sailing-trivia","tag-sailing-trivia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tradewindssailing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}