Cruising area · Venetian Lagoon · EU inland waters
Boat insurance for Venetian Lagoon
Outside the buoyed channels the lagoon is rarely deeper than a metre, and the channels shift. Add traffic at a density you will not meet on any other inland water: vaporetti, water taxis, cargo boats. The typical loss is either a grounding beside the line of buoys or a collision caused by wash in a narrow canal.
- Season
- April to October
- Berth
- €€€ upper band
- Winter storage
- ashore storage usual, frost protection needed
- Position
- 45° 24,0' N 012° 24,0' E
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Berths, season and winter storage
From April to October it is busy, with berths in the upper price band. Ashore storage is available and boats also stay afloat, because hard frost is rare. Expect acqua alta in autumn: pontoons go under water, and lines made off too short pull cleats out of the deck.
What this means for your policy
The lagoon belongs to the cruising range for Italy, Sardinia and Sicily. Going out into the northern Adriatic stays within that range, but the bora offshore makes very different weather from the lagoon. Check whether inspection costs after a grounding are paid even when no visible damage remains.
Questions and answers
What owners ask about this area
Does hull cover pay for a grounding beside the buoyed channel?
From Basis-Plus it does; running aground is named there as an accident event. What matters in the lagoon is this: report the contact even when there is nothing to see. The inspection costs are covered, up to 500 euros in Basis-Plus and without a cap in Premium, and in Premium such an inspection without consequential damage costs you no no-claims step.
What should I watch out for during acqua alta?
High water is not a named peril; what counts is what happened. If the pontoons go under and lines made off too short pull the cleats out of the deck, that is not a natural-forces claim but a question of how the boat was moored. Leave slack for rising water; if the boat breaks loose and drifts off all the same, that is an accident event covered from Basis-Plus.
And a knock from wash in a narrow canal?
Collision with a fixed or floating object is covered from Basis-Plus. What you do to someone else's boat is paid by the liability cover in every tariff. The range for Italy, Sardinia and Sicily covers the lagoon and the northern Adriatic together.
Cruising range
In the calculator this area belongs to the cruising range: Italien, Sardinien & Sizilien
Hazard spots nearby
And one level down: the individual marinas, anchorages and mooring fields.
