Szczecin Lagoon: Shallows and grounding

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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.

Cruising range

In the calculator this spot falls under German inland waters

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