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| Rosy winding at Buchholz, southernmost end of the Muritzsee |
thinned out again. It was warmer! Mike was up early and set off at 7.00 a.m. retracing our steps of the day before back north into the Kleine Müritz, then southwest down the long narrow Müritz Arm. I had been up at 5 a.m. coughing again, but went back to bed and didn’t wake again until 8 a.m. by which time we were off down the lake. I got the chores done first thing expecting it to get hot later. We winded at the end of the lake in front of the marina at Bucholz. On the way back we decided that discretion was the better part and didn’t
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| Boathouses on Muritz |
try to get through the very
narrow shallow reedy channel into Thüren and Nebel at Alt Garz. I took photos
of the house boats. Turned into the Kleine Müritz again and took a photo of the
signpost and Rosy. A very large fast cruiser coming from the direction of the
Müritz cut across the corner and went the wrong side of the green marker buoys,
made a sudden large stern wash on both sides of his boat as he came into very
shallow water - that slowed him down! We turned right into the MHW again and
the big cruiser followed, it was called Rockin’
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| Signpost on the Klein Muritz |
Chair from Berlin! I took a
photo of him (and his wash!) just before he overtook us. As we went along the
canal section to the quay at Lärz we had another cleg attack (horse flies that
bite). It was 10.50 a.m. The trip boat from Mirow went uphill, passing us at KP
27. More boats came past from Schleuse Mirow, then we went down it with Rockin’
Chair in front of us and two smaller cruisers. The lady keeper only appeared at
her upstairs office window as we left the chamber - she operates the lock from
up there with the use of CCTV. It took an hour to clear the lock, it was just
11.50 when we passed a queue of sixteen boats waiting below to go up. We turned
left and went to have a look at the Mirowersee. Moored in
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| Rosy turning on the Klein Muritz |
the corner of the
lake with the rest of the WSP boats was a Katastrophenschutz, which we took to
be a fast response emergency police boat. We motored on to the top end of the
lake, noted that we could have gone beyond the “no propellers” marker by 350m
to a “holiday village” and hireboat (Kuhnle) base at Granzow. We winded before
the start of the narrow water lily bordered channel and headed back south again
at 12.20 p.m. I made some lunch as we rejoined the MHW and we ate it as we
followed Rosy across the Zotzensee. There were canoes, cruisers and hireboats
everywhere! Several very fast speed
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| Speeding Rockin' Chair |
boats zoomed across the lake and there were
loads more paddle boats as we entered the recumbent L-shaped Vilzsee, turning
right to steam on up to the end (like the Mirowersee, we’d missed this lake
last time we were here). At the end of the Vilzsee is a small blob of a lake
called the Zehtnersee, which we did a tour around before heading back along the
Vilzsee to wait in a queue for the next lock, Diemitz. There was a big queue,
we dropped a rope on the stumps and Bill brought Rosy alongside. A lockful came
down and the queue moved forward. Fanny had to have a quick shampoo and dip in
the lake - she’d rolled in something smelly while Bill wasn’t watching! The
keeper, a middle aged bloke, was packing the boats in and we went in, still
moored side by side, behind a cruiser which had to shift its inflatable dinghy for
us to get in and still the keeper packed some more canoes in
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| Rosy leaving Mirow lock |
behind us! No
spare space in this lock - he’d make a good Thames lock keeper! We dropped down
just 1.2m and went out on to Labussee. After crossing the lake we had to wait
again for the next lock, Canow, this time we were left out and therefore first
in the queue for the next locking. Two small cruisers, one large one and a
stack of paddle boats filled the lock chamber and we dropped down 1.4m with a
young man pressing the buttons. The queue below the lock stretched out on to
the lake, the Canowersee. Got the camera out to photograph a lovely sailing
canoe with two minute sails out. Through the narrows into Kleine Palitzsee,
running east, then swung south to the Rheinsberger schleusenkanal. The blue and
cream painted Dutch hotel boat, Greta von Holland, was moored in the corner of
the lake by the narrows. Having too much airdraught for the bridges on the
canal to go directly there, we presumed they would take their passengers to
visit Rheinsberg by minibus. We tied up at the beginning of the moorings for
lock waiting and I took a walk down to Wolfsbruch lock to ask permission to
moor there overnight. There was a lockful coming up, no access on to the
lockside from the road bridge and a crowd of gongoozlers on the bridge. When
the boats left the lock I shouted down to the people on the l
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| Boathouses at Mirow - same view as in Mr McKnight's book |
ockside, one of
whom replied when I asked if they spoke English - but in German - he was the
keeper, a young wiry lad aged about 25, who understood what I’d asked and said
“Yes, it would be OK”. I also asked if there was a bakery in the village, to
which he said “Yes”. I cooked chicken and chips for dinner. Peter sent us a
text which we received just as we finished eating. He wanted to know if we
wanted to try calling on HF. Sent him a message back to say we’d be putting the
antenna up. We tried 40m but it was not very good as the QRM (interference) was
abysmal, but we managed a short QSO (conversation). He said he’d got some
traction batteries for his boat from a breakers yard. He wanted some
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| A sailing canoe on Cannowersee |
information from Bill about taking dogs back into the UK. His new dog, a boxer
bitch called Sandy, had been vaccinated against rabies and been chipped too. He
didn’t want to have the same problem Bill had when trying to get his dog back
into the UK when he comes over here to visit. He had to finish at 9 p.m. as
he’d got to go and eat his dinner as he had to go work for 10 p.m.
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