Sail Emblems

Sail emblems were printed on the yachts sails from the early days of production in the 1920s, mainly on the larger yachts. The early ink was not very waterproof and to find sails today with the emblems from the 1920 / 30s is quite rare. Very early 1920s had a roundel stamp in black ink.

The 1931 catalogue is the first to include illustrations showing the trade mark emblem, "Star Yacht, Guaranteed to sail, Made in England", there were two similar types, an eight pointed star in the roundel (Left yacht below) and a ten pointed star (Right yacht), the ten pointed version did appear in the late 1920s but the catalogues did not show this at the time. These were printed in black ink.

 

The next change in the 1930s was to an oval shaped emblem of two surrounding lines with hollow block letters designating the model number. Printed mainly in red ink, there were examples also in black, again rare to find nowadays as the red ink was not colourfast and faded with age.

Catalogue photos were not changed very frequently so a pictorial history of the emblems is not possible, but in the 1950s a very basic black and white Star badge was printed on the smaller solid yacht range.

By 1960 the more familiar five pointed Star emblem was in place, most of the ranges were in black ink with the exception of the Endeavour range which was printed in red and for a few years in the 1980s, the SY/7 had a red emblem. Very late models that had coloured sails also had contrasting coloured emblems.