Anyone with Noble Marine?

I suspect it may have hit the bottom ?

Originally posted by 2547 I insured with Nobles for years; I had a very clean record until I snapped a carbon mast on a 2 week old boat during a capsize... I wasn't worried that I had flights and transport booked for a world championships in Garda 2 weeks on as Noble had a good reputation and advertise "Never miss another weekends sailing" let alone a worlds .... Anyway; they said the breakage was repairable and so insisted on a repair ... the best any of their approved repair shops could do was 6 weeks which would have meant a missed worlds and considerable money wasted. I pointed this out and they would not budge  ... so I had to buy myself a new mast so I could go to the worlds ... I was not impressed.

Originally posted by jaydub That's a bit harsh if that was pointed at me.

Not sure it is actually. If you can't tie your boat down to a decent anchorage you should take the mast down if you want to pay the same insurance rates as the rest of us who do tie the boats down properly. Otherwise the rest of us are subsidising you.

The club is the members, so if you point the finger at the club for not providing ground anchors then you are just pointing the finger at yourself.

That's a bit harsh if that was pointed at me.  Tying boats down to trolleys in our part of the dinghy park is common practice as it is almost impossible to get anything into the ground that will hold.  Wooden stakes and dog stakes won't go in.  Tent pegs will go in if you are lucky, but are inclined to pull out.  Some people have created concrete blocks in buckets, but that doesn't weigh any more than a trolley.

I have always found Nobles sorted out claims quickly and very fairly.