Marina · Dargen · on the German Baltic coast
Hafen Dargen: berth and insurance
Hafen Dargen lies at Dargen on the German Baltic coast. The position is 53° 52,4′ N 014° 4,8′ E.
- Cruising range
- Ostsee
- Winter storage
- ashore, frost protection needed
- Position
- 53° 52,4′ N 014° 4,8′ 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, Hafen Gummlin, is 4.0 kilometres away.
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 slipway Hafenverein Gummlin is 3.9 kilometres to the west. Whether a fee applies is not recorded in the map data. 43 slipways are recorded within thirty kilometres.
The nearest berths: Hafen Gummlin, 4.0 kilometres to the west, Naturhafen Stolpe, 5.4 kilometres to the west and Fischer und Segelhafen Kamminke, 8.3 kilometres to the east. 21 other berths are recorded within 25 kilometres.
What this berth means for your policy
Germany has no general insurance requirement for pleasure craft. The harbour will still ask for proof in almost every case, in the form of third party liability with an adequate sum insured. This berth sits in an area where severe gales are part of the year. That makes one distinction in the small print worth reading: most conditions name storm from force 8, while flooding and storm surge are a separate matter. Whether a boat that breaks free, strikes piles or pontoon, is driven ashore or sinks is covered depends on whether the wording insures accidental events at all or only a fixed list of named perils. By the coastline the berth is exposed to east-south-east: some 34 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 Hafen Dargen?
In the calculator this berth belongs to the cruising range Ostsee. 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?
It is not required by law, but it is asked for almost everywhere. Harbour rules make proof of cover a condition of the berth, and the harbour master will ask for it on arrival. 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.
Recorded on site
- Harbour website
- insel-usedom-wollin.de/dargen/hafen.html
Cruising range
In the calculator this berth belongs to the cruising range: Ostsee
Berths nearby
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