Marina · Neusiedl am See · on Lake Neusiedl
Marina Union Yacht Club Neusiedlersee, Neusiedl am See: berth and insurance
Marina Union Yacht Club Neusiedlersee lies at Neusiedl am See on Lake Neusiedl. The position is 47° 55,8′ N 016° 50,0′ E.
- Cruising range
- Österreich
- Winter storage
- ashore, frost protection needed
- Position
- 47° 55,8′ N 016° 50,0′ 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, Union Yachtclub Neusiedler See, 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 0.1 kilometres to the north-east. Whether a fee applies is not recorded in the map data. 22 slipways are recorded within thirty kilometres.
The nearest berths: Union Yachtclub Neusiedler See, 0.1 kilometres to the south, Segelhafen West, 0.6 kilometres to the north-east and Segel-Akademie OeSV, 0.6 kilometres to the south-east. 17 other berths are recorded within 25 kilometres.
What this berth means for your policy
Austria has no insurance requirement for pleasure craft. Individual lakes and municipalities make proof of cover a condition of the berth through their harbour rules. 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 south-south-west: some 23 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 Marina Union Yacht Club Neusiedlersee, Neusiedl am See?
In the calculator this berth belongs to the cruising range Österreich. 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?
There is no legal requirement. Harbour rules still often make proof of cover a condition of the berth, and on some lakes the municipality regulates it. 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: Österreich
Berths nearby
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Ausstattung, Liegeplätze, Wassertiefe
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