11.5° C. Hazy sun, clouded over until midday then the sun
came out for a beautiful afternoon.
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| Ziegelwerder island (nature reserve) in Schwerinersee Wikimedia photo by niteshift |
We left at 8 a.m. The lake was flat calm
and placid, which was nice after all the sloshing produced by yesterday’s
winds. The midges were out in force as a result. We sailed serenely down the
eastern side of the lake, taking the narrow channel called the Langer Graben
which lead into the chain of smaller lakes into Schwerin. We paused at the
yacht harbour at Marina Nord in Schwerin for water. The harbourmaster came out
in a dinghy first to tell us where to go and then came round on foot to speak
to us. He said to say hello to Jim on Elizabeth - small world, of all the
boatyards to pick we found the one that Jim stopped at whilst waiting for
visitors from England! (We sent him a text later) He only charged us 1€ for
water for the two of us (about 700 litres). I made lunch and we ate it while
the tanks filled very slowly. A woman on a cruiser asked if she could borrow
our hose. I told
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| Beautiful aerial photo of Schwerin and the lakes Wikimedia photo by Ronald Bierber |
her it was our own and that we were just leaving. Someone had
taken the hosepipe that was originally attached to the tap - a man on a large
cruiser who had landed at the same time as us, obviously for the same reason,
but he’d taken the hose off to use it somewhere else and hadn’t returned it.
There was another hose coiled up on the post at the end of the landing stage so
Mike set it up for her and her husband went off to find the other hose. (It
occurred to us later that it was probably their mooring, their tap and their
hose pipe - you can’t leave anything for ten minutes!!) I turned the ‘fridge
off to defrost it. When it finished defrosting at 2 p.m. I refilled it just as
we turned on to the Störkanal, heading back to Banzkow. A crowd of boats came
past, they must have just been let through
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| Liftbridge at Plate on the Storkanal Wikimedia photo by Uwe Barghaan |
the bridge at Plate at 2.30 p.m.
Bill was in front and had stopped to let Fanny off. As we came alongside he
said “One of us has fallen in”. He didn’t look wet - so it must have been the
dog, poor Fanny had jumped for the bank and missed! We moored at Banzkow (on
the very end again) at 3.30 p.m. The liftbridge went up and a cruiser came out
of the lock. I went to tell the young man who was working the lock and bridge
today that we wanted to stay on the lock mooring as he was waiting for us to
come into the lock. He understood that we were staying put, lowered the bridge
down again and went away. Mike and I went shopping by car to the Real in
Schwerin. Bill stayed, he said he was OK as he’d bought spuds off the old
couple. Best to avoid all our germs as we’d now both got a cold! Found the
large hyper on a new commercial centre called Sieben Seen (seven seas). I was
tired before we started shopping and by the time we’d finished I was well and
truly shattered, my feet and legs were aching. I put the groceries away and did
some spuds while Mike set up the BBQ.
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