Marina · Tauranga · in New Zealand
Tauranga Bridge Marina: berth and insurance
Tauranga Bridge Marina lies at Tauranga in New Zealand. It is recorded with 500 berths. The harbour is called on VHF channel 73.
- Cruising range
- Südostasien & Australien
- Winter storage
- afloat all year is possible
- Berths
- 500
- VHF channel
- UKW 73
- Position
- 37° 40,3′ S 176° 10,7′ E
On the map
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Berth, season and winter storage
A berth afloat all year round is possible here, which is exactly what makes the season a question. Policies written for a season commonly pause over the winter months, in harbour and ashore alike. Anyone who leaves the boat in the water through the winter should check which months their own cover actually runs. 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, Tauranga Marina, is 1.4 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 nearest berths: Tauranga Marina, 1.4 kilometres to the north-west, Whangamata Marina, 59.5 kilometres to the north-west and Whakatane Yacht Club, 78.3 kilometres to the south-east. One other berth is recorded within 25 kilometres.
What this berth means for your policy
On this route it is not the local compulsory insurance that decides your cover, but two other things: whether the agreed cruising range takes in this ocean at all, and what your conditions say about the cyclone season. On arrival almost every authority asks for a certificate of insurance, and the International Certificate of Insurance for pleasure craft is the paper they mean. New Zealand lies south of the cyclone belt, which is exactly why half the blue water fleet spends November to April here. It is not entirely safe: a cyclone that turns into a deep low on its way south arrives here at force eight to ten. For the policy that means the bolt hole solves the exclusion but not the storm. 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 has no cover to north-north-east: in that direction there is no land within sixty kilometres. It is also open to the north. In a gale from north-north-east 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
Does my policy apply here at all?
That depends on the agreed cruising range, and it is the most common reason a long distance claim fails. In the calculator this berth belongs to the cruising range Südostasien & Australien. If your policy names something narrower, the narrower wording wins, however high the sum insured. The range can be extended before you leave, not after the loss.
Can I leave the boat afloat here over winter?
It is possible, but a policy written for a season commonly pauses over the winter months, whether the boat is sailing, lying in harbour or standing ashore. Anyone leaving the boat afloat needs cover that runs the whole year.
What does a salvage cost this far out?
More than the boat. A salvage in the Pacific or the Caribbean means a tug from another country, day rates in dollars and, at the end, wreck removal if the boat cannot be saved. Check what your conditions cap salvage and wreck removal at: a limit of ten per cent of the sum insured is common and rarely enough.
Cruising range
In the calculator this berth belongs to the cruising range: Südostasien & Australien
Berths nearby
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