Hi everyone,
So I am ready to embark for my second round of the world.
New boat, new ideas and new
destination.
Last trip was with an
Albin Vega 27’ . Now totally upgraded to a Great Dane 37. Removed the mizzen
mast for
single mast setup (more place for
wind vane, solars,
wind generator etc etc.
So the plans are to go from
Europe to the
canaries but instead of joining everyone else I go to Gambia and later guinea Bissau. From there
Brazil and further south to round the cape.
But I was also thinking about taking it a step further and go to Antarctica (when in the neighborhood!)
The
boat is equipped and complete refitted for the hardest condition I expect to meet during the sail.
However, I see it is very (very very) difficult finding
insurance companies willing to insure boats to meet new
regulations of visiting this land.
The
boat is registered in
Norway which mean I can use Norwegian
regulations (needs to have
insurance covering
health and
safety of an insane amount) or I can use my citizenship of Swedish. Then I only need to use insurance covering any natural disasters I may cause (oil spill etc - still at a crazy amount).
Every insurance company I speak to are either not doing it or “just” stopping providing this
service.
I’ve tried so many insurance companies it is insane. If anyone have any pointers please let me know.
(Or for that matter have any ideas if possible fines for not being allowed visiting this land of, what it seem, everyone’s claim but none that controls...)
Thanks!