Cruising area · St Helena · Worldwide
Boat insurance for St Helena
The island lies eighteen hundred miles from the nearest coast. There is no harbour, only an open roadstead off Jamestown with mooring buoys; you land by tender or ferry service. The swell never stops, and stepping off at the landing steps is where most tenders come to grief.
- Season
- all year
- Berth
- € inexpensive
- Winter storage
- mind the storm season, move the boat in time
- Position
- 15° 54,0' S 005° 42,0' W
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Berths, season and winter storage
The anchorage works year round and is inexpensive, because there are only buoy fees. Repair options are practically nil; a serious failure here is a problem that can be solved with what is on board or not at all. Provisioning is possible, spare parts arrive with the supply ship.
What this means for your policy
St Helena belongs to the cruising range for blue water and circumnavigation. Salvage is the decisive point: check what sum your policy provides for salvage and wreck removal and whether it is available on top of the sum insured, because there is no cheap local solution.
Questions and answers
What owners ask about this area
What sum does the policy provide for salvage and wreck removal?
If a state or the competent authority orders salvage, wreck removal or disposal, the expenditure is covered per claim: up to the sum insured in Basis, up to 1 million euros in Basis-Plus and up to 2.5 million in Premium — independently of what is paid for the damage to the boat itself.
Is that sum available on top of the sum insured?
For authority-ordered salvage, yes: it applies independently of the indemnity for the craft. And expenditure you incur to avert or reduce a covered loss is expressly reimbursed even when it exceeds the sum insured together with the indemnity.
Open roadstead, no yard, eighteen hundred miles to the nearest coast: which tariff?
The highest you are willing to carry. There is no cheap solution on the spot here, and the difference between the tariffs is exactly the amount at stake: accident cover only from Basis-Plus, a salvage limit of 1 against 2.5 million, inspection costs with and without a cap.
Cruising range
In the calculator this area belongs to the cruising range: Blauwasser & Weltumsegelung
Hazard spots nearby
And one level down: the individual marinas, anchorages and mooring fields.
