Yachting Clubs (The Netherlands)

Watersport verenigingen

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• Aegir, Hillegersberg
• Amstel, Amsterdam
• Argo, Wageningen
• Blijdorp, Rotterdam
• Eem, Baarn
• Joure en Omstreken
• Kaag, Warmond burgee, special ensign
• KNZR burgee, special ensign
• Leede, Warmond
• Loosdrecht, Royal Loosdrecht
• Maas, Rotterdam burgee, special ensign
• Maastricht watersportcentrum
• Motorboat Club burgee, special ensign
• Nieuwe Diep, Amsterdam
• Njord, Leiden
• Poseidon, Amsterdam
• Rotterdam Watersportvereniging
• Rotterdamsche Zeil Vereniging
• Schie, Rotterdam
• Spaarne, Heemstede and its new burgee
• Triton, Utrecht

• ARNE Middelburg
• Cloanthes Yachtclub, Rotterdam
• Haarlemsche Jachtclub
• "Lyts Frysia" Zeilvereniging
• Nautilus rowing club
• Proteus-Eretes rowing club
• Roermondsche Roei- en Zwem Vereniging
• Yerseke Watersport Vereniging

• The Netherlands
• The Netherlands - Index of all pages

Aegir, Hillegersberg

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Watersport Vereniging "Aegir", Hillegersberg (Rotterdam) - a red burgee with at the hoist a white saltire.
It has its own homepage. Now named Watersport Vereniging Aegir, Rotterdam, founded 16 Jun 1926 - it still uses the same burgee.
There are several clubs named Aegir, the most notable being in Groningen.
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Amstel, Amsterdam

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Roei en Zeilvereniging "De Amstel", Amsterdam (Row- and Sailing club). A burgee bright-blue over white with in the center a dark blue diamond charged with a white anchor with in the center two white clubs. The Club does still exist according to
its website - the club building is for hire as a party-center (but on warm summer evenings one has to go inside by 22.00 p.m. as the neighbours will complain!). On that site is a flag, essentially the same but a bit more elaborated: a flag blue over white with in the center the club's emblem: a white anchor on two rowing oars in saltire..
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Argo, Wageningen

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Wageningsche Studenten Roei Vereniging "Argo", Wageningen (Gelderland). Flag: horizontal green - white - green, with at top hoist an ancient sail/rowing ship above something (perhaps the golden fleece, perhaps the name???), all white.
At its homepage is a nearly identical flag, with even unclearer device.
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Blijdorp, Rotterdam

Watersport Vereniging Blijdorp, Rotterdam, image after this website, horizontal green - white - green, in white black letters AWSV Blijdorp (can't exactly see what the first letter is - figger it's an A... - the colors are the Rotterdam colors of course. This flag was chosen from 25 designs: a highly original choice if I may say so! See also Schie, Rotterdam.
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Eem, Baarn

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Baarnsche Watersportvereniging "De Eem", Baarn - orange burgee with a yellow diamond with the club's CoA.
The club was founded 20 Mar 1923, but not a trace of the burgee - and I haven't a clue what's on the CoA...
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Joure en Omstreken

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Watersportvereniging "Joure en Omstreken", Joure (Skarsterlân municipality, Fryslân province) - a green burgee with near the hoist a letter ring, containing intertwined red letters WJ..
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Kaag burgee

Burgee of Koninklijke Watersportvereniging "De Kaag", Warmond (Royal Watersport Society "De Kaag")

Kaag Special Ensign

Burgee of Koninklijke Watersportvereniging "De Kaag", Warmond (Royal Watersport Society "De Kaag")

KNZR burgee

Burgee of the "Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeil-en Roeivereniging" (Royal Dutch Sailing and Rowing Club)

KNZR Special Ensign

Special ensign of the "Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeil-en Roeivereniging" (Royal Dutch Sailing and Rowing Club)

Leede, Warmond

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Watersport Vereniging "De Leede", Warmond (near Leiden, Zuid-Holland) - blue burgee with in the center a red triangle charged
with a white Scandinavian cross.
At its homepage one can read that it was founded in 1921; in the 1930's it was moved to the Vennemeer, in the Kager Plassen lake-area; now it is called WSV Vennemeer, with the same burgee, and a very stylish logo..
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Loosdrecht

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
WatersportVereniging "Loosdrecht", Loosdrecht (then Utrecht, now Noord-Holland province. A burgee horizontal green - yellow
- green; on yellow a stylized CoA of Loosdrecht.
At this webpage one can read that it is now royal, and it has a new (similar) burgee: on yellow a green diamond charged with a yellow crown. (it is a flash-object).
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Loosdrecht (royal)

At this webpage one can read that it is now royal (Koninklijke Watersport Vereeniging "Loosdrecht"), and it has a new (similar) burgee: on yellow a green diamond charged with a yellow crown. (it is a flash-object).
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Maas burgee

Burgee of the Koninklijke Roei- en Zeilverebiging "De Maas", Rotterdam (Royal Rowing- and Sailing Club "De Maas")

Maas Special Ensign

Special ensign of the Koninklijke Roei- en Zeilverebiging "De Maas", Rotterdam (Royal Rowing- and Sailing Club "De Maas")

Maastricht watersportcentrum

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Watersportcentrum, Maastricht (Limburg) - blue burgee with in the center a red diamond touching hoist and fly, charged with a white five-pointed star..
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Motorboat Club burgee

Burgee of the "Koninklijke Mederlandsche Motorboot Club" (Royal Dutch Motorboat Club)

Motorboat Club Special Ensign

Special ensign of the "Koninklijke Mederlandsche Motorboot Club" (Royal Dutch Motorboat Club)

Nieuwe Diep, Amsterdam

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Watersport Vereniging "Het Nieuwe Diep", Amsterdam - a blue burgee charged with a red disk. On the disk there are some white or gold smudges, but perhaps that's just dirt from old age. It has no website, but does still seem to exist.
The Nieuwediep (new canal; it's actually a small lake) was formed after the Diemerzeedijk collapsed in 1422. In the 1930's a new part of Amsterdam was built here on soil dug from the place where the new Coenhaven was put in the IJ. The Nieuwediep is idyllically surrounded by the Flevopark..
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Njord, Leiden

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Studenten Roeivereniging "Njord", Leiden (Student Rowing Club) - blue with a white hoist-diagonal; at hoist bottom and top fly a white swan.
According to the club's homepage it was founded in 1974.
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Poseidon, Amsterdam

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Roei en Zeilvereniging "Poseidon", Amsterdam (Row- and Sailing Club), not to be confused with the numerous Poseidon shipping companies. A RWR burgee converging in the fly, with in the center a blue diamond with in saltire a white rowing oar and a trident.
This club  was founded in 1907 and has c. 200 members - no swimming diploma required, as the boats don't sink....
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004

Watersportvereniging "Rotterdam"

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 Aug 2003

Rotterdamsche Zeil Vereniging

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
The Rotterdamsche Zeil Vereniging, Rotterdam (Sailing Club) - white burgeee with a green Scandinavian cross, with at the intersection of the cross-arms a white diamond charged with black letters R.Z.V.
According to its homepage it was founded 22 Nov 1912 - and it has still the same burgee..
Jarig Bakker, 9 Aug 2003

Schie, Rotterdam

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

Spaarne, Heemstede

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

Spaarne new burgee

Triton, Utrecht

The Yearbook of the "Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad" - Wie, Wat, Waar 1941 has two pages with burgees.
Utrechtsche Roei Vereeniging "Triton", Utrecht - a blue burgee with the club's logo in white in the center. The club's homepage seems to have a similar background - an oar and an anchor (that most useful asset for rowing boats, especially Triton, who likes to give opponents a honorary headstart) seem to be part of it...
Jarig Bakker, 14 Aug 2004