{"id":450,"date":"2020-08-17T02:28:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/hooklinescience\/?p=450"},"modified":"2023-07-28T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T16:21:33","slug":"whats-the-greatest-risk-to-your-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/hooklinescience\/whats-the-greatest-risk-to-your-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the Greatest Risk to Your Boat?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The 10 Most Frequent Insurance Claims Reveal the Perils of Ownership<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s only mid-August, and I\u2019m already tired of the 2020 hurricane season. Just last week I had to prepare my small center console \u2014 stored in an open-air dry stack at a local marina \u2014 for Hurricane Isaias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luckily, my boat and most of the others at the marina escaped unscathed. Other boats at other marinas in southeastern North Carolina were not as fortunate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you own a motorized boat, regardless of whether you carry insurance on it, or where you store it, you might be interested in knowing the top 10 most frequent boating insurance claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The BoatU.S. Marine Insurance Program recently examined it\u2019s top 10 claims from the last 5 years, from 2013 to 2017. They also looked at the most common claims over a 5-year period ending in 2013 and in 2005, using a similar methodology to rank claim types across time periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat did they study?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n