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Watersportvereniging Saefthinghe-haven Paal, near Graauw, along the
Westerschelde, in Hulst municipality, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, after image on
this
site: a yellow burgee, bordered blue, charged with red letter "S".
Jarig Bakker, 1 Dec 2004
Watersportvereniging Scharendijke, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland province,
after image on this website
- yellow burgee
with at the hoist vertically placed blue letters wv; at the fly a lying
letter S.
This club was founded 21 Oct 1972, along the Grevelingenmeer, the largest
saltwater lake of Europe. This place has room for 850 ships (barring tankers
and the Mozart :-)
Jarig Bakker, 8 Dec 2004
Watersportvereniging De Schelde, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, after
image on this site: burgee red
over green; in the center a yellow crab.
The club is the result of the merger between the canoeing club "De
Schelde", and the yachting club "De Krab" on 20 Dec 1938; the burgee was
also a merger of green/red of the canoeing Schelders and the crab of the
Krabbers.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Dec 2004
The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941
has two pages with burgees.
Watersport Vereeniging "De Schie", Rotterdam - a green flag with a
white disk in the center, charged with a black S.
According to this
website this club merged on 20 Sep 2001 with WSV De Kolk and Piet Heyn
to form the new Watersport Vereniging Blijdorp.
(Piet Heyn was born in Delfshaven; he was a famous 17th century seaman,
who conquered the Spanish "Zilvervloot" in the Caribbean; Blijdorp
is the Rotterdam Zoo and now harbours also yachtsmen and -women)..
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004
The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941
has two pages with burgees.
Watersport Vereniging "Schiedam", Schiedam (near Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland)
- a white burgee with a green Scandinavian cross; at the intersection of
the cross-arms a white diamond charged with a black capital S...
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004
Watersportvereniging Schiphol, after image on this
site - yellow with at 1/3 length a blue disk, charged with a white
seabird; on blue and yellow two waves countercharged.
This yachting club was founded 7 Jun 1951 as "K.L.M.-Zeilvereniging
Schiphol". Since 8 juni 1954 is the name is "Watersportvereniging "Schiphol",
abbreviated to W.V.S. Its location is in Aalsmeer.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Dec 2004
Those of you not familiar with Dutch domestic affairs may not know that
Schiphol is not a hole for ships but the place where the international
airport of Amsterdam is located; and KLM is of course the Dutch national
career, which once had a flag, went down
in history, being swallowed by a big French firm.
Ivan Sache, 2 Dec 2004
Watersportvereniging Sint Annaland, Tholen municipality, Zeeland province.
After image at this website:
a burgee with 5 red and 4 white horizontal stripes, at the hoist a yellow
lion passant, armed black. The yachtclub was founded in 1963.
Jarig Bakker, 1 Dec 2004
A unique and vexillological correct design is owned by the Rotterdam
Rowing club "Skadi". The origin of that
flag is not known. Since 1928 "Skadi" used a green shifted cross on white
with a golden emblem in top hoist (two rowing oars in saltire with an arrow).
A design like that is not unusual for Rotterdam, see the Rotterdamse
Zeilvereniging. The flag, which is used nowadays, is of the Rotterdam
Rowing- and Yachting Club "Hades", founded in 1961, which merged into "Skadi"
in 1976, on condition that the colors were taken over. In the statutes
of "Hades" was written that the flag was striped blue - white - black -
white - blue. The origin of those colors is unknown. As well as who made
the changes in it. The flag seems to have been like that since
the beginning. There is a photo taken on the Mont Blanc at this
website with the Skadi flag.
Jeroen van Leeuwen, 24 Apr 2005
The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941
has two pages with burgees.
Koninklijke Zeil Vereniging "Sneek", Sneek (Fryslân) -
a burgee vertically divided yellow - black; in the center a white disk
charged with a yachting scene; in the canton on black a yellow crown.
On this
webpage are several flags, none of them looking like the WWW41 burgee.
The club has merged into the Koninklijk Watersportvereniging Sneek, which
was founded 1 Jun 1851, and is the organizer of the "Sneekweek",
a famous summer-event. The Sneekweek was first organized in 1935, and found
its origin in the "Hardzeildag" (fast-sailing day), which was first
held in 1814 when it was discovered that the French had discharged Jacob
Sjoukes Visser from military service, and all Snitsers sailed to Joure
to welcome JS. This trip was very much to the liking of the Snitsers, and
they decided to have every year a Hardzeilersdag.
Jarig Bakker, 7 Sep 2004
The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941
has two pages with burgees.
Roei en Zeilvereniging "Het Spaarne", Heemstede (Row- and Sailing club),
near Haarlem, Noord-Holland. A white burgee bordered red on top and bottom,
in the center a yellow "S". Het Spaarne is a river. This club is now "De
Koninklijke Roei- en Zeilvereniging Het Spaarne" - it has become royal,
see the club's website - the modern
burgee is white, with top and bottom bordered red; in the center a red
diamond charged with a white crown.
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004
Watersport Vereniging Steenwijk, Overijssel province, after image on
this
website: burgee yellow over blue; in the center a white diamond, fimbriated
black, charged with a stylized anchor; on top of the diamond left and right
a black saltire.
Club founded 31 Jan 1989.
The charge is a stylized version of the Steenwijk arms. It took Mr.
Bontekoe, the municipal council, the High Council of Nobility, the Council
of State (Raad van State), and Home Minister Wiegel over 6 years to design,
approve, disapprove, etc, that Coat of Arms - Ralf
Hartemink has written juicily about it and about dear old St. Clemens,
who was thrown in the water with an anchor and miraculously reappeared
with the anchor floating upsidedown.
Jarig Bakker, 11 Dec 2004
image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 30 May 2023
Stichting Watersportcentrum 'Vlietland' (Foundation Water-sports Centre
"Vlietland"), is a water-sports association on the land-side of
Maassluis. They started in 1962 and have basically
over the years built themselves a 100 berth marina.
Their webmaster as a
bonus for a small service, provided us with an image of the S.W.Vlietland
burgee. It's an orange burgee, with along the hoist the Maassluis flag, and
below it hoist-wise "S.W.Vlietland" (wtq), in white capitals. In the fly is a
white water lily with blue details around it.
Peter Hans van den
Muijzenberg, 30 May 2023
Watersportvereniging Strijen-Sas, Strijen, Zuid-Holland province, after
image on this
website: white burgee with a wavy blue horizontal stripe, charged with
two red drawbridges facing, surrounding a white S.
This is in the "Hoekschewaard", southwest of the city of Dordrecht,
opposite the big planned port of Moerdijk. The club was founded 1 Jan 1962,
on the place where Prince Johan Willem Friso of Orange drowned in 1711.
Jarig Bakker, 11 Dec 2004