Embroidered boat club hats and polos are the formal default at almost every yacht club, sailing club, and cruising club in the US. Embroidery sits flush in the fabric, holds up through years of washing, and reads as more polished than print. This guide walks through embroidery placement, file requirements, color matching, and how the club store handles embroidered pieces with no minimum order.
Standard embroidery placements on boat club pieces:
The embroidery team accepts most common logo file formats:
The Pro Shops design team handles the conversion to embroidery-ready DST or similar files. No technical work required from the club.
Bear Grips Pro Shops: Custom Apparel for Your Team. No Minimums. Free Shipping.Embroidery thread comes in a standard palette of about 300 colors. The team matches the burgee colors to the closest available thread shades. For most clubs the match is exact. For clubs with a non-standard burgee color (deep maroon, specific shade of teal), the closest match runs within one or two shades of the exact color.
The team can send a digital mockup of the embroidery preview before any pieces are printed. Clubs that want to approve thread colors specifically should request the mockup at store setup.
The three hat formats and how the embroidery sits on each:
Stock at least the rope hat and the 5-panel. Add the snapback if the member demographic skews younger.
Traditional embroidery shops charge a setup fee per design ($30 to $80 typical) and a per-stitch charge for complex designs. Pro Shops embroidery includes setup and stitching in the base price of the polo or hat. The price is the same whether the burgee has 1,500 stitches or 8,000 stitches.
This matters most for clubs with complex crests or detailed burgees. Traditional embroidery would add $40 per piece for a high-stitch design. Pro Shops keeps the base price flat regardless of design complexity. The club passes that savings into either lower retail prices or higher margin per item.
Burgee on left chest. No setup fee, no minimum, US-embroidered, free shipping.
Start FreeNo. The minimum is one piece. A member can order a single embroidered polo or a single embroidered hat. The embroidery is set up once per design and applied to every order from that point forward.
Embroidery is included in the base price. The Sport-Tek performance polo with embroidered burgee starts at $34.88 base on the VIP plan. The Yupoong rope hat with embroidered burgee starts at $29.86 base on the VIP plan.
Yes. A combined burgee plus club name design works at chest-burgee size on a polo or hat. The team scales the design to fit cleanly. Best to keep the wordmark short (3 to 5 words) so it reads at small embroidery scale.
Most embroidered orders ship in 4 to 6 business days and arrive in about a week to ten days. Free shipping to each member.
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