| "Why Boat Insurance Is A Necessity" | | | | Washingtonand have your boat insurance in order as |
| - by John Edwardson | | | | you do when you are sailingfrom Bermuda to Florida. |
| Boat insurance is necessary for all boat owners who | | | | While I contemplate the last half of my life; (I am getting |
| live on or reallyvalue their boats. If it is something that | | | | close tothat turning point) I must make some decisions |
| you feel you must replacethen you need to insure it. If | | | | as to what I want todo with my leisure years. I have |
| you live on your boat it isabsolutely necessary that it | | | | many thoughts in mind but one ofthose options that |
| be insured. Who would want to lose theirhome? | | | | keep coming to mind is sailing the world. |
| Also most boats are financed in the beginning. The | | | | All of us need to plan for what we want. If I choose to |
| lending companywill insist on insurance in those cases | | | | go sailing Iwill need several things of those things that I |
| just as they would with ahouse or a car. This is not | | | | will need if I dochoose a boat insurance is the top of |
| unreasonable; they have as much to losein the financial | | | | that list. I might wind up in acabin by the woods or on a |
| sense as you do if anything happens to the boat. | | | | beach in the South Pacific, I am by naturea solitary |
| Some areas are more dangerous than others for | | | | person. |
| boaters. While some ofthose areas are famous or | | | | If that is the case I will happily spend my time sipping |
| infamous 'the Bermuda Triangle' and the | | | | iced tea andspoiling my grandchildren. If I am on a boat |
| Dardanelles others are less well known but can be just | | | | I think I will see the |
| as dangerous. | | | | Sargasso Sea and sail around the world and across |
| Cape Disappointment in Washington State is one of | | | | the equator. |
| the most dangerousareas on the seas when the | | | | Discoverimportant advice and information about boat |
| conditions are right (or wrong). You needto be just as | | | | insurance. What dealsshould you look for ? And what |
| prepared when you off the Pacific coast of | | | | should you avoid. |