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Yachting & Rowing clubs (The Netherlands) [w]

Watersportverenigingen

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Wakend Oog, Terschelling

image from http://www.wv-hetwakendoog.nl .

"Het Wakend Oog" (the waking eye) is a yachting club on the island of Terschelling (Fryslân province) with a rather unusual burgee: from hoist to fly dark to bright blue; at the hoist a vertical row "TERSCHELLING" in white; in the center a dark-grey oval bordered with a yellowish rope, with in the center an eye, over which is written in white: HET WAKEND OOG.
Stefan Lambrechts, 5 Jul 2005

Watersportvereniging Alphen a/d Rijn

by Jarig Bakker, 8 Dec 2004

Watersportvereniging Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland province, after image on this website: red burgee with a black compass-rose within a white steering wheel; at the hoist white letters wva.
The club was founded in 1971.
Jarig Bakker, 8 Dec 2004

Watersportvereniging De Peiler

image located by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 June 2023

Watersportvereniging De Peiler (The Pillar), is a water sports club in Vianen, Utrecht. The club lies 3 km downstream along the Lek from the old city of Vianen, in what before 1975 was a sand extraction pit.

I found the flag it at https://www.depeiler.nl/zoeken. I don't know how I would normally find it, though. It's also not the image I originally found: What I saw, was a burgee on a boat here in Sneek (it was actually flown as a jack, but it was clearly a triangular burgee). I have not seen that version elsewhere, but I'll copy this to the club, and maybe they'll help us with the flags. Anyway: a Red over Yellow field, with towards the hoist a big Blue circle depicting a pillar, drawn in what looks like a darker shade of Blue. I have yet to determine the origin of the name.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 10 June 2023

Watersportvereniging Rotterdam

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 3 October 2017

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees. The Watersportvereniging "Rotterdam" in Rotterdam had a green burgee with a white Scandinavian cross, with W.S.V.R. written in the central white horizontal stripe.
Jarig Bakker, 9 August 2003

The Watersportvereniging Rotterdam, WSVR (http://www.wsvr.nl), was founded in 1932. In the first years of the war, it merged with the older Zeilvereniging Kralingen, ZVK, founded in 1908.

Their burgee is a green pennant with a white cross slightly offset towards the hoist, with on the cross in black the text "W.S.V.R." (wtq). Green and white are, of course, the colours of Rotterdam. As the name of the WSVR was kept in the merger, one might expect that the design of the burgee would have been that of the ZVK. We can see that this is not the case here, as the ZVK burgee was blue, rather than green. It would still be interesting to know for certain what the burgee of the WSVR was before the merger.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 3 October 2017

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 3 October 2017

The website shows several photographs where the club flag is visible, e.g. https://get.google.com/albumarchive. This is apparently a green flag with a white cross, with on the cross in black the text "W.S.V.R." (wtq). I would say that on the flag the cross is not offset.

Several drawings of the burgee show the text in green. If this is correct it must be a recent change, since drawings from 2011 still showed black text, as did the flag in 2016.

The site's history page, at https://sites.google.com/site/wsvrotterdam/geschiedenis, includes a photograph that appears to show a rectangular ZVK flag. However, drawing it based on that photograph would be mostly speculation.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 3 October 2017

Watersportvereniging St. Nicolaasga

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 May 2023

The Watersportvereniging St. Nicolaasga, is a water-sports club without a burgee (https://www.wsv-stnic.nl). At least, its constitution and by-laws don't mention any. But still, the club provides a very small burgee image in abundance. I can't say much about it, as the image is low on detail, but I take it the shape in the area that isn't quite a circle, is a gradient of colour featuring what is supposed to be the catholic church of St. Nicolaasga. Not that such a church in itself has much relevance for yachters, but Saint Nicolas is the patron of mariners, so there is a possible connection.

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 May 2023

In 2019, the club's jubilee was to be celebrated, but no mention seems to be made on the site of plans for a special burgee. Maybe such a burgee was announced elsewhere; not all links on their website are actually up-to-date, but I had to assume they did not improve their burgee for the occasion. In their carousel is an image that may be a club flag, but I can't quite make out the details.

However, they also have Facebook page, not up-to-date either at https://www.facebook.com/wsvstnic. There, they show, 4 years after the fact what might be/have been a jubilee burgee. Does it need mentioning that this again is a gradient flag with the text in the fly to make it as difficult to read as possible?

This is the "vibrant-est water sports club in Frisia", which can be seen from this image, showing the vibrant-est water sports club flag (ah, so there is one; again, nothing in the documents), shown prominently between such unimportant flags as that of the Nation, and that of the Province.

Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 May 2023

Watersportvereniging Zwartsluis

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 June 2023

Watersportvereniging Zwartsluis (Water sports club Zwartsluis), is part of Recreation Center Zwartsluis, which also includes marinas and a camp site. The club in 2022 celebrated its 75 year jubilee, but I've not seen an image of a specific jubilee pennant. I intend to copy this to the club, in case they know more.

The club provides an image of the club's burgee. (Now that I write this, I wonder if this might be jubilee version, as it has the Z in gold.) The burgee is a white field, with hoist triangles of red over blue, encentred in the white a capital letter "Z" in gold.

The club draws the burgee with blue edges separating the fields, but there is not really any need to do so. It may be those are actually part of the flag, though. Colours are the Dutch colours (except that I'm assuming the yellow colour is gold).
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 June 2023

Weesp WV

image by Jarig Bakker, 9 Dec 2004

Watersport Vereniging Weesp, Noord-Holland province after image on this website: vertical divided burgee BWB, with on each field letters wvw countercharged.
Club founded 4 May 1977, along the wildly streaming Vecht river.
Jarig Bakker, 9 Dec 2004

Werkendam WV

image by Jarig Bakker, 1 Dec 2004

Watersportvereniging Werkendam (Noord-Brabant), after image at this site: yellow trapezoid burgee; at top hoist W.S.V.; in the center "WERKENDAM", and at hoist bottom a black duck.
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Westend, Aalsmeer

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Watersport Vereniging "Westend", Aalsmeer - a burgee with a black hoist; in the center two green connecting triangles; from the black stripe till the fly a red diamond.
Red, green and black are the colors of Aalsmeer; West of Aalsmeer are the "Westeinder Plassen" (lakes). According to this website this was better known as Jachthaven Dragt, named after the founder, an adventurer from Drenthe. In the center of the harbour was a small house for Watersport Vereniging "West End". On the site are ancient fotos with BW burgees, none of them looking like the one depicted in WWW41...
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Westland, De Lier

image by Jarig Bakker, 9 Dec 2004

Watersportvereniging Westland, De Lier, Zuid-Holland province, after image on this website: blue trapezoid burgee with a central red horizontal stripe charged with W.S.V.W. in black.
Club founded 26 Oct 1974.
Jarig Bakker, 9 Dec 2004

Willem III, Amsterdam

image by Jarig Bakker, 10 Sep 2004

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Roeivereniging "Willem III", Amsterdam - flag blue over blue with a white diamond charged with a rowing boat with crossed oars over a foul anchor, all white fimbriated black. (the book shows clearly a horizontal black stripe - no idea why...)
Its homepage mentions that was founded 22 Aug 1882. The club is at the Amstel near the Utrechtse bridge in Amsterdam-Zuid, along the road to Utrecht all the way to Umukoroshe.
Jarig Bakker, 10 Sep 2004

The attributes on the white diamond have been colored realistically, not "void"..
Jeroen van Leeuwen, 23 Mar 2005

Witte Huis, Oud-Loosdrecht

image by Jarig Bakker, 9 Dec 2004

Watersportvereniging Het Witte Huis, on the Loosdrechtse plassen, between Hilversum and Utrecht, after image on this website: blue burgee, with a blue lozenge fimbriated white, charged with vertical letters HWH. "Het Witte Huis" is of course the white house.
Founded 1935..
Jarig Bakker, 9 Dec 2004

Wormerveersche RoeiVereniging

image by Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Wormerveersche RoeiVereniging, Wormerveer (Noord-Holland). A burgee quartered red and white. It's a mirror of the Wormerveer municipal flag without lions.
According to this website it is now named "Wormerveerse Roeivereniging DE ZAAN", in Zaandijk; it's a rowing club for Zaanstad; the burgee on that site is also quartered, but black and white (a misprint?); it was founded in 1896.
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004