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Virginia Clean Marina Flag (U.S.)

image by Eugene Ipavec, 25 August 2008

Description of the flag
Variant flag
Burgee

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Virginia

Description of the flag

The Virginia Clean Marina flag can be found at http://www.virginiacleanmarina.com.
“The Virginia Clean Marina Program promotes the voluntary adoption of measures that prevent or reduce pollution from traditional and non-traditional marinas, boatyards and recreational boats. Marina operators that adopt these measures are designated as "Virginia Clean Marinas.”

If I am not mistaken the programme was launched in 2001; as could be expected, it awards flags to successful applicants. See a very large logo here, featuring a compass rose (as they use in nearby Maryland, for instance): http://www.midatlanticmarinegroup.com/Severn/VA%20Clean%20Marina%20Logo.jpg.
Compass rose of eight points (large cardinal points plus four smaller ones) in two colours, blue and yellow; surrounded by programme name in blue ‘VIRGINIA / CLEAN MARINA’ with large blue dots between the words. Also found at https://www.deq.virginia.gov/p2/images/cmlogo.gif.

Now the flags – two different ones appear on this page (York County News Release 2008-115): http://www.yorkcounty.gov/publicinfo/pr2008/2008-115.pdf. One is a rectangular flag, white, with the name & dots in blue – exactly like the logo.
Jan Mertens, 21 August 2008

Variant flag

image by Eugene Ipavec, 25 August 2008

Another flag – or a variant – appears on p. 6 of this file: http://www.deq.virginia.gov/coastal/documents/magss02.pdf. White rectangular flag with name and dots in dark blue (possibly not significant) but in addition a yellow ring (blue holding lines, I believe) surrounding the logo (photo by H. Bresee). It also appears here: http://www.hqda.army.mil/ACSIM/env/cbi/newletters/cbreview/06_Summer.pdf.
Jan Mertens, 21 August 2008

Burgee

image by Eugene Ipavec, 25 August 2008

One flag is a tapering swallowtail, white, bearing above logo but with the name & dots in grey. Of course there is an operational difference between a burgee and a flag used on land but I have no idea whether the yellow ring means something – added for better visibility perhaps, or is it simply the present version?
Jan Mertens, 21 August 2008