How do you get from one lake to another? My brother Jack, a ferry captain, wanted to know this when I said I was off to sail a cruising yacht on the Masurian Lake District.
“And, where is it?”
The vast network of more than 2,000 lakes is in the north-eastern part of Poland, formerly part of East Prussia, with Olsztyn being the closest airport. You explore by motorboat–or yacht if you’re willing to drop your mast–passing under bridges and through canals and forest-lined rivers. A lifting keel helps negotiate the shallower points and is also handy for tucking into creeks for a night at anchor.
“I never knew Poland had a lake district”, said my travelling companion, PBO’s Ali Wood, “and I’ve been a yachting journalist for 20 years.”
We joked that it reminded us of Ozark, a Netflix series set in an idyllic lake resort in Missouri, USA.
“Welcome to the Polish Ozarks,” replied our skipper Wojtek Tomala,
