ScharmützelseeIt doesn't get any more beautiful than this

Jan Jepsen

 · 28.03.2020

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Photo: Jan Jepsen
In the off-season from Berlin towards the south-east, into Brandenburg. The destination is the Scharmützelsee.

Arrival Citymarina Berlin. Sunday afternoon. A familiar face is casting off: Uli Wickert, former "Tagesthemen" presenter, is treating himself to an hour on the Spree. A short coffee cruise on licence-free sloops from Holland - called sloops, I learn.

We are planning a major excursion. The boat for our week-long Brandenburg trip is moored at the jetty opposite, a Schulz 40 Max. The three-cabin version. Our crew is spontaneously very impressed. Even me, who grew up as a sailor, as I should perhaps mention.

Among water sports enthusiasts, it's often a question of faith whether you belong to one group or the other.

In this respect, this journey can also be seen as a kind of "conversion". How quickly can you convert? Very quickly, to put it bluntly.

Jan Jepsen

Jan Jepsen

Freier Autor

Jan Jepsen, freier Autor, Fotograf, Schriftsteller, Krimiautor - in Hamburg Övelgönne (schon mit Gummistiefeln) auf die Welt gekommen. Er hat das Reisen früh zu seinem Beruf gemacht. Seitdem schreibt und segelt er sich durch die Welt. Am liebsten und längsten für die YACHT - mit über 100 Reportagen in knapp 40 Jahren. Sein ewiges Motto: „Hier bin ich ja sowieso – schön ist es auch anderswo.“

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