English Channel: Heavy shipping traffic

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English Channel: how the place works

One of the busiest waterways in the world, with a tidal stream setting across the course that can at times exceed a yacht's speed through the water. Traffic separation schemes must be crossed at right angles to the general direction of flow, not on the shortest route to the destination. Visibility and traffic change within the hour.

English Channel: what breaks there

The expensive case is not your own boat but what an avoiding manoeuvre sets off. Add nets, fishing marks and debris in the fairway. And the classic: a crossing with too little in hand, where the stream sets the boat into the separation zone.

English Channel: what this means for your policy

Here it is the liability limit that decides, not the hull cover. Anyone who forces or hits a commercial vessel faces figures that have nothing to do with the value of their own boat. Check your limit before you cross, not afterwards.

Cruising range

In the calculator this spot falls under EU inland waters

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