Cruising area · Saône and Rhône · EU inland waters
Boat insurance for Saône and Rhône
The Saône is calm and wide; the Rhône below it is a different water: strong current, large lock chambers with several metres of lift, and commercial traffic that will not make room. Damage happens mainly in the chambers when the boat is pushed around during filling, and in high water, when debris comes down and berths are flooded.
- Season
- April to October
- Berth
- €€ moderate
- Winter storage
- ashore storage usual, frost protection needed
- Position
- 46° 18,0' N 004° 54,0' E
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Berths, season and winter storage
From April to October the route is comfortable, with berths in the middle price band. Ashore storage is usual in winter, in the lower reaches also because of flooding. If you leave the boat afloat, watch the gauge and rig the lines for rising water.
What this means for your policy
The route belongs to the cruising range for the Belgian and French canals. Locking out into the Mediterranean at Port Saint Louis leaves that range and needs its own entry. Clarify beforehand whether lock damage is paid without deduction and how your policy treats flooding.
Questions and answers
What owners ask about this area
Which cruising range do I need for the Saône and the Rhône?
The range for the Belgian and French canals. Anyone locking out into the Mediterranean at Port Saint Louis leaves that range and needs a separate entry for it. Premium covers six weeks a year beyond the agreed range anyway.
Is damage inside a lock chamber covered?
On your own boat from Basis-Plus: striking the chamber wall and collision with fixed objects are named there as accident events, and the partial hull cover of the Basis tariff does not include them. What you do to someone else's boat is paid by the liability cover in every tariff.
And what about driftwood during high water?
Collision with a floating object is covered from Basis-Plus. High water itself is not a named peril; what counts is what actually happened. If the boat breaks loose, drifts off or sinks, those are accident events, and they are named from Basis-Plus.
Cruising range
In the calculator this area belongs to the cruising range: Belgien & Frankreich (Kanäle)
Hazard spots nearby
And one level down: the individual marinas, anchorages and mooring fields.
