Burgee

The name

bur·gee

/ˈbərjē/ noun

The burgee began as the owner’s flag: an eighteenth-century shipowner’s own colors at the masthead. Sailing and golf share one symbol, and here every collection flies its own.

Duxbury, Mass.

From a harbor town.

Burgee is from Duxbury, Massachusetts. A bay, a wooden bridge, a beach that goes for miles. The kind of town where the yacht club is a shingled building and the golf course meets the marsh. That is the standard. Not nostalgia, just how things are made there.

Modern, yet built to never date.

Fixed points

  • Powder Point Bridgeest. 1892
  • Gurnet Lightest. 1768
  • Bug Lightest. 1871
  • The barrier beachsix miles
  • Duxbury Bayten-foot tides

The house codes

Four rules. That is all.

Clean & breezy

Air in the layouts, nothing shouting.

Old school materials

Wool felt, waxed canvas, grosgrain, brass, full-grain leather.

Preppy, not costume

If it would look wrong in a 1970s harbor-town photo, it's off-brand.

Built for the coast

Real golf utility or it doesn't ship.

To wear it is to fly it.

Not a logo on a shirt; colors being flown.