While the sloughs are home to many rotting hulks that were the former homes of some of the non-conforming members of the waterfront community, it was the feeling of freedom and serenity that drew the Muddies to the peaceful achorages in the sloughs. The club house was NOD.

The SAYC burgee symbolizes the South Bay. The brown represents the mud (Yes, the color of mud is hard to duplicate), the blue represents the sky, and the black semi-circle is a white-letter steel-belted radial tire representing the junk people throw into rivers that eventually make their way into the Bay filtration system that is the sloughs. Sadly, the sight of tires sticking out of the mud at low tide is not that rare. One of the legendary Muddy feats was Downwind snagging an old tire with his anchor while single-handing.