Hazard spot
Szczecin Lagoon: Shallows and grounding
Szczecin Lagoon: Shallow murky water with a narrow fairway and rocks close beside it. Leave the buoyed channel and you usually find the bottom sooner than expected.
- Cause
- Shallows and grounding
- Main season
- all year
- Position
- 53° 49,2' N 014° 03,0' E
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Szczecin Lagoon: how the place works
Shallow, murky water over wide areas, with a narrow buoyed channel and stone fields immediately alongside. You cannot see into the water, the echo sounder warns too late at three knots, and the level shifts with the wind between the lagoon and the Baltic.
Szczecin Lagoon: what breaks there
Propeller, rudder blade and saildrive meet stones that no chart marks individually. On displacement boats it often stops at the propeller; on boats with a sterndrive the drive leg becomes the single most expensive part.
Szczecin Lagoon: what this means for your policy
Check whether your hull cover includes the drive or only the hull, and whether machinery cover is part of it. It is exactly on that line between wear and damage that most cases here are decided.
Read this in full: A grounding is not a small claimCruising range
This spot lies in the cruising range the calculator lists under this step: German inland waters
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