Marina · Kesswil · on Lake Constance
Bootshafen Kesswil: berth and insurance
Bootshafen Kesswil lies at Kesswil on Lake Constance. The position is 47° 35,8′ N 009° 19,4′ E.
- Cruising range
- Bodensee
- Winter storage
- ashore, frost protection needed
- Position
- 47° 35,8′ N 009° 19,4′ E
On the map
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Berth, season and winter storage
The boat comes ashore for the winter. Frost is the most expensive damage of the year here: a cooling circuit left full cracks the engine block. Insurers treat that as a breach of a duty of care rather than as an accident, whoever the insurer is. Read what your own conditions require of you before the boat is lifted out. At the pontoon what counts is what the conditions call a duty of care: lines of adequate strength, chafe protection, a working bilge pump and a boat that is not left unchecked for months. This is a small berth and usually without permanent supervision. Pleasant, and a disadvantage in a claim: with no harbour master there is no witness to when the damage happened or how the boat was made fast. The nearest berth, Bojenfeld, is less than a kilometre away. That close together you share the tight water when manoeuvring, and the most common damage is the damage another boat causes.
How exposed the berth lies
Each spoke shows how far the water is open in that direction, up to sixty kilometres. The highlighted spoke is the direction the sea runs in furthest from. Calculated from the coastline, not measured.
The nearest slipway is 0.0 kilometres to the south-east. Whether a fee applies is not recorded in the map data. 140 slipways are recorded within thirty kilometres.
The nearest berths: Bojenfeld, 0.4 kilometres to the north-west, Bootshafen Uttwil, 2.1 kilometres to the south-east and Hafen Zollershuus, 2.7 kilometres to the north-west. 104 other berths are recorded within 25 kilometres.
What this berth means for your policy
Switzerland requires liability cover. It follows from Swiss inland navigation law and therefore applies in the Swiss part of Lake Constance as well. Cross over from the German shore and you are in a country that requires it. Severe gales are rarer here than on the open coast, but the squalls of summer thunderstorms are violent and short. They hit the boat at the pontoon, not at sea: lines chafe through, covers tear, a neighbouring boat comes across. By the coastline the berth is exposed to east-south-east: some 29 kilometres of open water run towards it from there. That is the direction the sea comes from in a gale.
Questions and answers
What owners ask about this berth
Which cruising range do I need for Bootshafen Kesswil?
In the calculator this berth belongs to the cruising range Bodensee. The cruising range is the boundary within which a policy applies. Check the wording before you go beyond it: many policies name a narrower area than owners assume, and an extension has to be agreed before the passage, not after the claim.
Is my boat insured in winter storage?
Hull cover normally applies ashore as well, including storm damage on the cradle and theft from the yard, but two things decide the case. A policy written for a season usually pauses over the winter months and then carries nothing at all, and frost damage to a cooling circuit that was not drained counts as a breach of a duty of care rather than as an accident.
Does the harbour ask for proof of insurance?
Yes, Switzerland requires it, and that includes the Swiss part of Lake Constance. The paper that belongs on board is the International Certificate of Insurance for pleasure craft: it states the cover in a form that is understood across the bordering states.
Cruising range
In the calculator this berth belongs to the cruising range: Bodensee
Berths nearby
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Ausstattung, Liegeplätze, Wassertiefe
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