I've bought a Nacra 16 square and hope to get some help from the local sailing club in learning how to rig and sail it. They require $10 M 3rd party insurance. Any advice where I can get that at a reasonable price?
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I've bought a Nacra 16 square and hope to get some help from the local sailing club in learning how to rig and sail it. They require $10 M 3rd party insurance. Any advice where I can get that at a reasonable price?
If you're paying for home and contents insurance, these policies often come with a 3rd party liability cover that covers you beyond your home, for injury to persons and damage to 3rd party property. Often these policies exclude incidents that occur when operating a powered vessel, or a vessel over a certain size. They might exclude activities during professional sporting events...etc etc. If you have this type of insurance, you might find you're covered anyway - worth checking the PDS. No sense in paying the insurance parasites twice for the same cover.
Online instruction book/manual: www.manualslib.com/manual/1020957/Nacra-Nacra-F16.html?page=2#manual
Forum about Nacra 16 setting up: www.thebeachcats.com/forums/viewtopic/topic/11155
That's just a quick look online.
My first sailing was to buy a dinghy on a Saturday and an instruction book on the Monday. And I made a few mistakes the next weekend, but I learned. This insurance requirement is too much, too onerous.
Otherwise, if the club won't teach you without instruction, how about putting up an advert or asking to pay a member (as a private person) for 2 or 3 hours of their time?
Select to expand quoteI would get the insurance that cammed suggested. the Richmond is a busy little river with plenty of tide and water users. I would also put a float on the top of the mast while you are learning, even if it looks kooky. The nacra 16 square is a lovely cat but can be a hard thing to right if they go turtle, especially in a strong tide. ( fairly high aspect ally mast). You will learn to sail a cat easily with previous windsurf and wing experience, but there will be tricks to learn like tacking a jib less cat. Plenty of experienced sailors at these little river clubs that are usually happy to share their knowledge and help new people. also if you learn at a club you will have rescue boat to assist. enjoy your new boat.
