Boat Insurance

Boat Insurance Policy cover at a glance

Important Cover Sub-limits

Items limited to a sub-limit unless specified in your policy schedule

Automatic Additional Benefits - Boat Insurance

• Accidental Death
  If you suffer an injury and as a consequence die as the result of a sudden accidental event, we will pay $20,000 to your estate.
  
  
• Accommodation and Travel Expenses
  We will pay up to $1,000 to cover any necessary and reasonable additional accommodation and travel expenses that are incurred to complete your journey following an accident.
  
  
• Locks and Keys
  We will cover the reasonable cost of replacing locks and keys (including electronic access cards and transponders and remote door openers) if they have been lost, damaged, stolen or duplicated. You will not have an excess applied to this claim.
  
  
• Parts and Accessories stored at Home
  $1,000 cover for boat spare parts and accessories that are stored at home in a secured location.
  
  
• Racing Cover
  Wind-powered boats are automatically covered whilst preparing for, or participating in, a social race in New Zealand. This includes cover for damage to the boat’s sails, masts, spars or rigging.
  
  
• Recovery Costs
  If your boat can no longer be powered or sailed as a result of a claimable event, we’ll pay the reasonable cost to remove it and transport it to the nearest repairer or place of safety.
  
  
• Replacement Boat Purchase
  Any replacement boat purchased is automatically covered for 30 days on the same terms and conditions as the existing policy.
  
  
• Replenishment Costs
  We’ll pay the necessary and reasonable costs (up to $2,000) incurred by you to replace, replenish, or refill safety flares or fire extinguishers used to safeguard your boat against loss.
  
  
• Rewards
  If we agree in advance, we will cover the cost of any successful reward payment made to assist in the recovery or protection of your insured boat.
  
  
• Time Trials
  The policy is automatically extended to cover loss that occurs whilst you are participating in a time trials conducted under the control or regulation of a club, association or equivalent body as long as your boat speed does not exceed 30 knots.
  
  
• Towing following Electrical or Mechanical Breakdown
  If your boat suffers an electrical or mechanical breakdown whilst afloat, we’ll pay the reasonable cost (up to $500) to remove it and transport it to the nearest repairer or place of safety.
  
  
• Wreckage Disposal
  If we’ve accepted a claim under the policy, and your boat is deemed uneconomical to repair, we will pay up to $500 to dispose of the boat at a landfill or disposal site.
  
  
• You choose your Repairer
  You can choose to either use one of our preferred repairers and we’ll guarantee their repairs, or you can select a repairer of your choice.

Optional Benefits

Extended geographical limits: For an additional premium on your boat insurance policy, we’ll extend the standard 250 nautical mile limit on the policy to include Australia and the South Pacific for any trips you may be doing to these regions that do not exceed six weeks in duration.

Why insure your boat with MAS?

As a mutual, we work for you, our Members. We seek to ensure that you’re getting the best possible cover for a fair premium and excess.

We provide the following additional benefits for insuring with MAS:

• Easy to understand policies.
• Top quality and empathetic claims service.
• Insure your contents and your house and/or car/motor vehicle and you’ll be eligible for our multi-product discount. Insure your motor vehicle, house and contents and you’ll be eligible for our Goldshield discount. Your boat policy can also have the Goldshield discount applied once you have your motor vehicle, house and contents insured with MAS.
• Where an event results in a claim under this policy and another policy you hold with us, you only have to pay the total excess that applies under the policy with the highest total excess.