Real Club Marítimo del Abra-Real Sporting Club (Spain)

Last modified: 2002-09-21 by santiago dotor
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Both burgees flown together, see text
both by José Carlos Alegría

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• Yacht Club Burgees and Flags
• Yachts Ensign
• Spain

I just got the first number of a very nice magazine published by the most important yacht club of Vizcaya (Basque country), the Real Club Marítimo del Abra-Real Sporting Club. This club, located at Guecho, on the outskirts of Bilbao, is the result of the merge, produced in 1972, of the Real Sporting Club, founded in 1898, and the Real Club Marítimo del Abra, founded in 1902. It is curious that each one had his own flag, and the resulting club uses both! They always fly both burgees at the Club, and they use an image of the flags crossed at the mast as their emblem [see below]. Real Club Marítimo del Abra's burgee is the register flag of