Stormweekend was a wonderful weekend! Although the wind was too strong to sail, we made the best of it and played typical tourists in Friesland.
On Friday everyone arrived in Friesland one after another. First the three cars towing a Laser arrived, which were early to ditch a storm coming up in the night from Friday on Saturday. Then, after dinner, the rest of the people slowly arrived and when we were complete and everyone had claimed their bed in the sleepingroom, the ZeilCie gave a welcome speech in which they already expressed their doubt whether we could sail due to the Storm. After this speech we celebrated our freedom and played some games together. Some of the games even completely in theme: Super Mario!
On Saturday everyone woke up a little later then we usually do on weekends and right after breakfast the ZeilCie and skippers had a quick emergency meeting on whether or not to sail and together with the verdict of the boat rental, we came to the conclusion that it was not safe enough to sail with the Valk, but Niek could go on the Vago with someone else as soon as the wind was not too strong for that anymore.
For the rest of the people the ZeilCie had a quick meeting on a plan B and came to the conclusion to give everyone three options for what to do on Saturday: a citytrip to Sneek and the maritime museum, a citytrip to Leeuwarden or stay at the camping and go to the cat cafe in Oudega. In the end everyone chose where they wanted to go and departed to their trip of choice.
In the evening everyone got back together at the camping and we had dinner together. After dinner we again enjoyed our liberty and the theme of the weekend with everything it brought.
Then on the Sunday morning the ZeilCie had made a new selection of activities to do! Now the choice was between ice skating in the 11steden ice skating rink, a visit to the AquaZoo in Leeuwarden, or again to stay at our accommodation and go to the cat cafe in Oudega.
Around 15:30 we gathered back at the accomodation, to clean up, and start our journey back to our bueatyful Wageningen. Off course the journey back was a quite tense, as the wind was on it's peak of the storm and the trailers were at risk of flying away. Luckily we filled the boats with water, so they would be waighed down more and took a different route to ditch the highest winds along the coast. On our way with all the cars we had to stop tighten some loose straps on the trailers and we caused a traffic jam on google maps! (first ever aqua traffic jam 😎).
All in all it was a very fun weekend although we could not sail and we hope next year will be just as fun!
~ Olaf
FixCie evening 
Zeilcie Casino Night! 
ConstitutieBorrel (CoBo) Opwindend! 
