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Flag of COM, horizontal and vertical versions - Images by TomislavŠipek, 8 February 2018
The flag of COM (photo) is white with the Committee's emblem.
TomislavŠipek, 8 February 2018
Flag and burgee of SNM - Images by Ivan Sache, 17 February 2010
The Société des Régates de Monaco (website) was founded in 1888 by Louis Adjani, Honoré Bellando, Adolphe Blanchy, Henri and Jean Crovetto, Albert De Millo, Ambroise Delpiano, Victor Lefranc, Jean and Joseph Marquet, Louis Neri and Jean Vatrican. The first rowing and sailing regatta ever organized in the Monaco Bay took place on 17 March 1889.
On 19 May 1953, the club split into the Société Nautique de Monaco (SNM), dedicated to rowing, and the Yacht Club de Monaco (YCM), dedicated to yachting.
With some 200 members of many different nationalities, the SNM, affiliated with the French Rowing Federation (FFSA), is also in charge of the Monegasque Rowing Federation, founded in 1993. Accordingly, the SNM members of
French or Monegasque nationality can compete in the French
championships, while those of Monegasque nationality can also compete
in international events under the Monegasque flag. In the Beijing
Olympic Games (2008), the skiffer Mathias Raymond, standard-bearer
during the opening ceremony, finished 22nd - incidentally, he rank 8th
in the Sexiest Competitor's Contest.
The rowers of the SNM train on sea, between Port Hercule - Monaco's main
port - and the Bay of Roquebrune - located east of Monaco, in French territorial waters. They also row on Lake Saint-Cassien (Provence), at the training base of Montauroux. SNM has closed links with the local French and Italian rowing clubs; a
main event in the rowing season is the sea rowing race San Remo-Monaco.
The flag of SNM (photo) is red with two groups of two white horizontal stripes each at the top and the bottom and a white star in the middle. A white
triangle is placed along the hoist, charged with the club's emblem.
The emblem featured on the flag is made of two oars with white and red
blades crossed in saltire quartered by the black letters "S" (left), "N"
(top), and "M" (right). The emblem is surmounted by a crown and
surmounts year "1888" in gold. On the stand-alone emblem, the letters
are omitted and the blades are superimposed with the club's burgee.
The burgee of the SNM, hoisted over the club house located on the northern side of Port Hercule, is made of nine horizontal stripes, in turn white and red, the stripes # 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 being twice higher than the other ones. A white star is placed in the middle of the central, red stripe.
Ivan Sache, 17 February 2018
Burgee of YCM, two versions - Images by Ivan Sache, 10 May 2010
On 19 May 1953, the Société des Régates de Monaco, founded in 1988, split into the Société Nautique de Monaco (SNM), dedicated to rowing, and the Yacht Club de Monaco (YCM), dedicated to yachting.
The home of big sailing and motor boats, the YCM organizes famous races such as the Primo Cup, the Monaco-New York transatlantic race and the Grand Prix de Formule 40'. Fond of historic yachts, Prince Albert II created in 1994 the Monaco Classic Week and purchased the next year the Tuiga, a cotter built in 1909 in Scotland for Duke of Medinaceli and considered by Éric Tabarly as "one of the ten most beautiful yachts in the world", today the flagship of YCM.
The burgee of YCM is vertically divided, at hoist white with a simplified version of the Monegasque coat of arms surrounded by the letters "Y" (top left), "C" (top right) and "M" (bottom), either black (photo) or red, and at hoist red with two white triangular stripes; the two main fields are separated by a red fimbriation.
Ivan Sache, 10 May 2010