Several articles and letters have appeared in this newspaper lately about the way we fly the flag of the United States of America at the Palm Coast Yacht ... because our club's burgee appears ...

Framed on a wall at the Stuyvesant Yacht Club is a special club burgee, a small yachting flag issued in 1990 on its 100th anniversary. Now a quarter-century later, the club may not survive another ...

and obviously another flag, such as a yacht club burgee at the masthead, will be higher than the U.S. flag when the latter is at gaff. This is entirely proper because "above" in flag etiquette ...