Single Handing - Insurance

[jollysailor17]

I have now solved the problem. Yachting24 have offered me a policy which includes single handing up to 200 miles offshore around most of Europe, including all of Norway to the Russian border, up to Faeroe and south to Gib and east to Turkey. That will be fine for the present time. The policy funnily enough was one of the most competitive quotes I was offered.

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

That sounds good.
How much was your policy and excess, what value your boat?

Not a clue if the company I use would help anyone else but they seem very competative to me and others who use them....
http://www.denovo-group.com/

 

[charles_reed]

Ask to speak to a broker. Jumblie is insured with GJW and though single-handing is excluded in their standard contract, they were very happy to add daylight single-handing for me at no extra charge. They were also happy to extend "within 12 miles of the UK coastline" to cover the RoI coastline and the whole Irish Sea as well, again at no extra charge.

I agree that the standard GJW policy will automatically exclude single-handing, unless you have applied to the underwriter.

Nearly all the insurers will permit daylight-only single handing, in coastal waters.

My GJW contract permits single-handing for day or night, night single-handing limited to not exceed one period of darkness. In effect that gives me 36 hour passages.

No limitation as there is with Pantanaeius, to being within coastal waters.

There is one catch-22 in it all - you have to prove competence in single-handing for extended periods, I sent them log-copies.

 

[Clyde_Wanderer]

April Fool perhaps? GJW typically offers single-handed coverage for daylight hours only which is enough to get across the Channel.

Which is exactly what I have with them.
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