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Municipal flag of Ostend - Image by Ivan Sache, 18 November 1991
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The municipality and town (Stad) of Ostend (70,000 inhabitants) is the capital city of the arrondissement of Ostend.
The flag is horizontally divided red and yellow.
The flag was adopted on 2 September 1985. That flag has been
known since at least the XVIIth century. Wilson's "Flags at Sea"
[wil86] has a wimpel for
Ostend, and an Ostend Fighting flag (p. 68, flagchart of
William Downman, 1685-86), and on p. 69 an Ostend Ensign.
Jarig Bakker, 10 November 1991
The Royal North Sea Yacht Club at Ostend was founded during winter 1946-47,
receiving the port's Montgomery Dock (cap. 100 yachts) as a base of
operations. Very active in organizing races, the club has a substantial
number of Dragon Class boat owners as members.
Special vessels are the committee boat and two Zodiac pneumatic boats.
Since 2004, the Mercator Dock (named after a former Belgian school ship),
renamed Mercator Marina, is under the club's responsibility as well.
A photography on the club website shows a white burgee with
off-set cross in the Belgian colours (red on yellow with a thin black outside
border) and a royal crown in the upper hoist.
Another photography shows another burgee, unfortunately unclear - perhaps the
version for officials - seemingly having a Belgian cockade, crowned, in the
upper hoist.
Source: RNSYC website
Jan Mertens, 18 May 2007
![[Royal YC d'Ostende]](../images/b/be~rycdo.gif)
Burgee of RYCDO - Image by José Carlos Alegria Diaz & Jaume Ollé, 29 October 1999
The burgee of the RYCDO is red with two yellow triangles placed along the hoist and a Royal crown in the red field.
Ivan Sache, 29 October 2005
Watersport Oostende Spuikom (WOS) has its club house and a large number of mooring places at the Spuikom. Planned for drainage, the Spuikom was never used as such but proved handy for growing oysters, preserving and investigating nature, and even served as a landing place for German seaplanes during the Second World War.
The club burgee, as shown on drawings on the WOS website,is white with stylized blue letters WOS, correctly read in the vertical position.
Source: WOS website
Jan Mertens, 17 March 2007