"Duh" Flag Awards

Not your ordinary yacht club award

If our Flag Officer, Tony Angel, finds out that a captain made a stupid error, while on their boat, our Flag Officer invents a flag to be presented to the embarrassed captain. The "Duh" Flag Awards, invented by George Freund (pictured right), are unique and BCYC is the only known boat club to offer such awards. George, who joined BCYC in 1982, served as Commodore, Board Member, Christmas Parade Chairman, and Vice Commodore; and to most members of our club, created the most honorable position, the club’s Flag Officer.

Captains, watch it and do not fall off your boat, hit another boat or marker, drag an anchor, be caught nude on the deck of you boat, forget to unhook your electric power cord before leaving the dock and many more.

    
BCYC cruiser, be careful, our current Flag Officer Tony is watching for you to screw up. 


Here are a few flags awarded over the last few years:

	Water pump failed, engine overheated, Captain did not properly check his engine		Dragged Anchor, did not properly set their anchor
	Boat Captain ran the vessel hard aground		Captain caught NUDE on the deck of his vessel
	Boat had to be towed		Fell getting on or off their boat
	Flying the wrong flag. Learn the purpose of your flags		One night a gang boarded their boat, took their liquor, and put toilet paper all over the boat
	Captain not paying attention and ran out of the channel		Captain was heading in wrong direction and almost hit another boat
	Captain mad, he was being told how to sail their boat		Boat’s engine failed while on a cruise
	Captain had to jump from the dock to get on their boat		On board radio failed, battery died, dropped and it broke, or could not figure out how to use it
	Lights went out, battery failed, electric short, and no hand held light that would work		All battery power lost, could not start the engine, lost use of GPS, lights or all other electrical equipment
	Engine would not start, lost power, starter failed, or some electrical component, switch, wire shorted out		Lost all lighting, had to travel in absolute darkness
	On board cell phone failed, battery died, dropped and it broke, or could not figure out how to use it		Went crazy due to an accident, Captain did something stupid that blew their mind, got hit in the head with a sail boom, or a safety hook
	Bent their rudder, ran aground, or hit some underwater object when being somewhere that they should not		Trying to sail without putting down the centerboard
	Best Flag of all, a lollipop, an reward for helping a fellow sailor		Captain tied their finger and not the cleat
	Captain knocks a hole through boat's hull		Got caught swimming  in the nude
	Super Nice Captain, fixed a helpless Club member's sail		Bad bad bad prop. Hadn't cleaned the prop in years, engine moaned and squeaked