Cruising area · Marquesas · Worldwide
Boat insurance for Marquesas
After around three thousand miles from Panama or Galápagos, the Marquesas are the first solid ground. The bays are deep and open to the south, with a swell that makes anchoring uneasy; stern anchors are usual. There are no sheltered marinas and yard infrastructure is minimal. Damage here almost always means waiting for parts from Tahiti or France.
- Season
- April to October
- Berth
- € inexpensive
- Winter storage
- mind the storm season, move the boat in time
- Position
- 09° 0,0' S 139° 30,0' W
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Berths, season and winter storage
The busy time is April to October and costs are low, because you anchor. Boats arriving here often carry wear damage to sails, rig and self steering from the passage; the repair is the real expense, not the berth.
What this means for your policy
The Marquesas belong to the cruising range for the Pacific and South Seas. Check how your policy treats damage to rig and self steering after a long passage, and whether transport costs for spare parts enter into the settlement.
Questions and answers
What owners ask about this area
How does the policy treat rig and self-steering damage after a long passage?
Breaking and buckling of masts, spars and booms, of standing and running rigging, and tearing of sails are expressly named as accident events from Basis-Plus. Material fatigue in the standing rigging and wear are not: keep the inspection intervals and the one is cleanly distinguished from the other.
Do transport costs for spare parts count in the settlement?
The repair is compensated, and what it costs in this place belongs to it. What is not compensated are indirect losses, that is diminished value and lost use — the weeks you wait are paid by no policy. Report the damage before the yard starts and we will agree the route together.
Three thousand miles to the first landfall: which cruising range?
The Marquesas belong to the Pacific and South Seas range; the passage there calls for a blue water or worldwide range. With the worldwide range the digital NAMMERT logbook must be kept as soon as your position changes by more than 300 nautical miles.
Cruising range
In the calculator this area belongs to the cruising range: Pazifik & Südsee
Hazard spots nearby
And one level down: the individual marinas, anchorages and mooring fields.
