Marina · Licata · on Italian waters
Marina di Cala del Sole, Licata: berth and insurance
Marina di Cala del Sole lies at Licata on Italian waters. It is recorded with 250 berths.
- Cruising range
- Gardasee & italienische Seen
- Winter storage
- ashore, frost protection needed
- Berths
- 250
- Position
- 37° 5,8′ N 013° 56,6′ 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. With that number of berths this is a large harbour, and it shifts the risk: most damage here does not happen at sea but while berthing in a tight basin, or comes from the neighbouring boat that breaks loose. The nearest berth, Porto Rifugio di Gela, is 25.7 kilometres away. Tie up here and in a freshening wind there is no harbour within easy reach, and that is the situation the expensive cases come from.
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 0.7 kilometres to the west. Whether a fee applies is not recorded in the map data. 9 slipways are recorded within thirty kilometres.
The nearest berths: Porto Rifugio di Gela, 25.7 kilometres to the east, Porto di San Leone, 37.2 kilometres to the north-west and Porto di Scoglitti, 48.4 kilometres to the south-east. No other berth is recorded within 25 kilometres.
What this berth means for your policy
Italy requires third party liability cover, for powered craft and for sailing boats with an auxiliary engine, during transport and storage in the country as well and not only under way. The statutory minimum is 6,450,000 euros for personal injury and 1,300,000 euros for property damage. 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 has no cover to west-south-west: in that direction there is no land within sixty kilometres. It is also open to the south-west and south-south-west. In a gale from west-south-west the sea runs in over the full distance, and the berth is then the most dangerous place for the boat.
Questions and answers
What owners ask about this berth
Which cruising range do I need for Marina di Cala del Sole, Licata?
In the calculator this berth belongs to the cruising range Gardasee & italienische Seen. 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, and during transport and storage ashore as well, not only under way. 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
- Telephone
- +39 0922 183 7137
- Harbour website
- portoturisticolicata.com
Cruising range
In the calculator this berth belongs to the cruising range: Gardasee & italienische Seen
Berths nearby
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Ausstattung, Liegeplätze, Wassertiefe
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