Hazard spot
Müritz and the small lakes
Heavy charter traffic on shallow lakes with stone fields close beside the channel. The peak season brings the most groundings.
- Cause
- Shallows and grounding
- Main season
- April to October
- Position
- 53° 25,2' N 012° 43,2' E
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How the place works
The Müritz is large enough for a proper sea and shallow enough for that sea to stand everywhere: outside the buoyed channel wide areas lie at a metre and less. The lake district beyond is a network of canals, locks and narrow passages, used mostly by charter boats that need no licence.
What breaks there
Grounding outside the channel, impact damage in locks and at pontoons, plus propellers and rudders in the shallows. Rarely expensive in the single case, but this is the area with the highest number of reports of all.
What this means for your policy
Two things pay off here: hull cover that carries a grounding without argument, and a look at how the policy handles charter and changing helmsmen. On licence-free boats the question of whether the driver was entitled is regularly the point of dispute.
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