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Balatonfüredi Yacht Club
The Balatonfüredi Yacht Club (BYC) is Hungary's oldest established and one of its leading yacht clubs. Since its founding in 1867, its youth programmes have trained multiple olympic sailors and Blue Ribbon Round the Lake Balaton Race winners. On the Hungarian Yachting Association's leaderboard BYC is ranked among the best yacht clubs in the country. History The Balaton-Füred Yacht Association was founded by members of the Hungarian gentry in 1867. Its first president learned to sail in England. In 1881, an English boatbuilder set up shop adjacent to the clubhouse. In 1884 and again in 1912, it changed names first to Stefania Yacht Association and then to the Magyar Yacht Association and, finally, until World War II, the Royal Hungarian Yacht Club. After World War II, private social groups were disbanded, including the yacht club. In 1948, Istvan Németh founded the Balaton Shipping Workers Sports Association, which became the ''Balatonfüredi Vasas SC'' in 1951. In 1985 it b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgee Of Balatonfüredi Yacht Club
A burgee is a distinguishing flag, regardless of its shape, of a recreational boating organization. In most cases, they have the shape of a pennant. Etiquette Yacht clubs and their members may fly their club's burgee while under way and at anchor, day or night. Sailing vessels may fly the burgee either from the main masthead or from a halyard under the lowermost starboard spreader. Most powerboats (i.e. those lacking any mast or having a single mast) fly the burgee off a short staff at the bow; two-masted power vessels fly the burgee at the foremast. Flag officers The officers of a yacht club may fly various burgees appropriate to their rank: for example, the commodore may fly a swallow-tailed version of the club burgee (and the vice- and rear-commodores the same, but distinguished by the addition of one or two balls respectively at the canton). A past-commodore may also be given a distinctively-shaped flag. Personal burgees Personal burgees are called private signals, and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary lies within the drainage basin of the Danube, Danube River and is dominated by great lowland plains. It has a population of 9.6 million, consisting mostly of ethnic Hungarians, Hungarians (Magyars) and a significant Romani people in Hungary, Romani minority. Hungarian language, Hungarian is the Languages of Hungary, official language, and among Languages of Europe, the few in Europe outside the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Budapest is the country's capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, largest city, and the dominant cultural and economic centre. Prior to the foundation of the Hungarian state, various peoples settled in the territory of present-day Hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
