Hazard spot
Steinhuder Meer: Shallows and grounding
Steinhuder Meer: Barely one and a half metres deep on average, with mud banks between the buoys. Keelboats here always run by eye and with a margin.
- Cause
- Shallows and grounding
- Main season
- all year
- Position
- 52° 27,6' N 009° 20,4' E
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Steinhuder Meer: how the place works
The largest lake in northwestern Germany averages only a good metre and a half in depth, less in many places. Wind builds a short sea quickly over that surface, and because there is bottom everywhere it stands up steep at once.
Steinhuder Meer: what breaks there
Grounding with centreboard or rudder, touching bottom while tacking, and dinghies capsizing in the short sea. Motorboats ingest silt and block their cooling circuits.
Steinhuder Meer: what this means for your policy
In a shallow area it is worth checking whether grounding and engine damage from ingested material are included. A cooling circuit full of silt is a classic dispute between damage and wear.
Read this in full: A grounding is not a small claimCruising range
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