Insurance
lulupuce
We are trying to insure a prototype Mini Transat and this is proving rather
hard. Most guys go without insurance but we don't want to do that.
Any advice on where to go?
Cheers
Lucy
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Lloyds will insure absolutely anything, and quite often they are quite
reasonable too, back in the late 70's I built a trike and after 2 months of
trying every insurance company and broker in the book I wound up at lloyds,
who insured me for just over a hundred quid, policy delivered within a
couple of days.
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Stefan
Noble Marine and craftinsure.com are the two brokers most people I know
use. Both are experienced in covering race boats. Good luck.
lulupuce
> reasonable too, back in the late 70's I built a trike and after 2 months
of
> trying every insurance company and broker in the book I wound up at
lloyds,
> who insured me for just over a hundred quid, policy delivered within a
> couple of days.
>
Lucy
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Assuming he means Lloyds of London
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lulupuce
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> lulupuce wrote:
>
> >> Lloyds will insure absolutely anything, and quite often they are quite
> >> reasonable too, back in the late 70's I built a trike and after 2
months
> > of
> >> trying every insurance company and broker in the book I wound up at
> > lloyds,
> >> who insured me for just over a hundred quid, policy delivered within a
> >> couple of days.
> >>
> > Sorry to be thick but by Lloyds you mean Lloyds TSB?
> > Lucy
> Assuming he means Lloyds of London
> --
I tried finding them on the web and they say that they do not deal with
insurance directly the web says: "Lloyd's is unable to accept requests for
insurance from the public, who should contact their broker:"
The thing for us is that the previous boat was bought when we lived in
France and insured over there.
Therefore I have never had to deal with anything over in the UK and am
finding this a rather painful experience.
How do you know where to go? Who is the best for underwriting the policy?
etc, etc...
Lucy
lulupuce
> > We are trying to insure a prototype Mini Transat and this is proving
rather
> > hard. Most guys go without insurance but we don't want to do that.
> > Any advice on where to go?
> > Cheers
> > Lucy
>
> Noble Marine and craftinsure.com are the two brokers most people I know
> use. Both are experienced in covering race boats. Good luck.
Quick reply from Noble Marine, they won't cover it!
This is fun ;-)
I can now understand why most of the guys on the Mini Transat circuit have
no insurance. But we don't have a main sponsor yet so if something happens
WE PAY!
Anybody else got an idea?
Lucy
Stefan
Are you honestly surprised nobody wants to cover a Mini Transat? The
risk has to be a lot higher than blue-water cruising, and people
struggle to get cover for that.
Have you asked the class association for advice? I realise they are not
UK-based, but there is no reason you HAVE to use a UK insurer. When I
helped run a class association, we used to recommend a couple of brokers
to new owners.
Failing that, all you can do it keep ringing around the marine brokers
and hope you find someone who will cover it.
It surprises me that event organisers will accept entries from totally
uninsured boats. It is normal in the UK for race organisers to insist
competitors have 3rd party cover - when you enter a race you certify you
have it.
Again, good luck.
SailBlade
races with out insurance!
Try Leo website forum here http://www.xs4all.nl/~blvrd/ and ask some of the
other Mini guys, failing that why not try Offshore Challenges for some
advice?
Be careful though, do not use any offshore underwriters as we did, you loose
your rig once and they might pay up, crash the boat in to the side of France
in a storm and they wont give you a penny! And avoid a certain chap running
insurance from home in the Selsey/East Wittering area in West Sussex as he
is the broker for such dodgy underwriters.
Cheers
SailBlade
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lulupuce
> uninsured boats. It is normal in the UK for race organisers to insist
> competitors have 3rd party cover - when you enter a race you certify you
> have it.
>
> Again, good luck.
You are right they probably have 3rd party, but we really want full cover I
am sorry if this was misleading and apologise profusely. ;-(
I am not surprised buy the fact I am ringing and e-mailing around and
welcome any advice.
We knew from the start this would not be easy but it is his dream so it WILL
happen!
Lucy
Sailor
accountants - you might get a more sympathetic ear???
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Stefan
> We knew from the start this would not be easy but it is his dream so it WILL
> happen!
If I were a decade or two younger it would be my dream too......
Sandy Morton
<L.Dr...@kent.ac.uk> wrote:
> I can now understand why most of the guys on the Mini Transat
> circuit have no insurance. But we don't have a main sponsor yet so
> if something happens WE PAY! Anybody else got an idea?
Cuthbert, Service and Jackson in Glasgow - sorry no further info. on
this puter.
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lulupuce
WILL
> > happen!
>
Actually the Mini is one of these categories where you seem to still have a
wide age range, but I see what you mean!
lulupuce
> accountants - you might get a more sympathetic ear???
St Margaret's?
Sailor
St Margaret's Insurances Ltd
153 - 155 High Street
Penge
London
SE20 7DL
Tel - 020 8778 6161
Fax - 020 8659 1968
email - yac...@stminsurance.co.uk
web - www.stminsurance.co.uk
Good Luck!!!
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Lucy