Royal Danish Yacht Club

Last modified: 2025-08-09 by klaus-michael schneider
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• Kongelig Dansk Yachtclub (Royal Danish Yacht Club)
• Ensign
• Current Pennant
• Pennant Version 1902
• Pennant of Dansk Forening for Lystsejlads

• Denmark
• The common Yacht Ensign

Kongelig Dansk Yachtclub (Royal Danish Yacht Club)

The club was established on 3 July 1866 as Dansk Forening for Lystsejlads (something like Danish Pleasure Boat Trips Association). The club was originally based in København. Its first clubhouse was the Langelinje Pavillon near the Frederikshavn Citadel in north eastern Copenhagen.
On occasion of its 25-years anniversary King Christian IX granted the the new name Royal Danish Yacht Club (Kongelik Dansk Yachtklub). According to source the former pennant, which was white with three red stars, was replaced by a white pennant with three yellow stars under the royal crown. (This information is doubtful, as yellow stars are only displayed on the logo but all images of the burgee display red stars.) The ensign was already granted to the club before in 1873. In 2000 the club merged with the Rungsted Kyst Yacht Club, to which existed a good neighbourhood and cooperation before for many years. In 2007 the new clubhouse in the Tuborg Port in Hellerup was opened by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe 2 herself.Currently the club has more than 2000 members and three bases in Hellerup, Skovshoved and Rungstedlund. (I couldn´t get any information about the pennant of Rungsted Kyst Yacht Club)
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 Aug 2001 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Mar 2021

Ensign

It is the state ensign with yellow emblem in the canton consisting of the letters "Y.F." and three five-pointed stars in rising diagonal, approved by royal resolutions of 28 February 1873 and 25 July 1891.
Željko Heimer, 2 June 2004

Current Pennant

The pattern basically has not changed since 1902 (see below), but the ensemble is in the centre of the pennant.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Mar 2021

Pennant Version 1902

The pennant was white with three red 5-point stars ordered 2:1 flanking from below a coloured royal crown in canton.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 8 Mar 2021

Pennant of Dansk Forening for Lystsejlads

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