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Subject: TWL: Re: Insurance
From: C. Marin Faure (cmfaure@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 00:51:43 EST
From: "Bob Austin" <thataway4@XXX.XXX>
Subject: TWL: Insurance
To: "1trawler world" <trawler-world-list@XXX.XXX>
>Often I would take a skiff out and ask them if they were going to put out a
second anchor, remove the canvas etc--invariabley the answer was "Heck No,
I have insurance--and many times those boats would be the ones on the beach
at the end of the storm"--The reason I would ask about their ground tackle,
is that they poised a risk to the home owners and the boats at the docks
which were well moored, as well as boats properly anchored out. I think
that there are many boaters who do not act as responsibally because they
have insurance. They paid their premium and who cares?
I would find this attitude virtually impossible to understand. Well, no, I
would understand it, but I would really wonder at the mentality behind it.
I suppose some people are wealthy enough or blase enough to view a boat as
simply another appliance, like an expensive car. If something happens to
it, you get another one. But I suspect most of us put a huge amount of
effort and time into our boats, even if we have much of the work done by
professionals. My wife and I couldn't imagine leaving something that's
become so much a part of our lives to "sink or swim" on its own, as it
were.
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C. Marin Faure
GB36 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, WA
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