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Funboarding and your insurance

Funboarding is windsurfing on a short board in waves and at speed. Recreational use is often included, but competitions and damage to the board usually are not.

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Deze pagina in het Nederlands: Funboarden en uw verzekering.

The calculator and the quote form below are in Dutch. Prefer to do this in English? Email info@finassverzekert. nl or call 072 - 509 24 56 and we will take it from there.

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In brief

Most insurers do not treat funboarding as an extreme sport. As long as you sail recreationally, injury and medical costs are normally included under travel and personal accident cover. The risk here lies not in height or depth but in speed on busy water: collisions with swimmers, other boards or a boat, and a mast or fin that comes with you in a fall.

It does go wrong on three points. Insurers exclude speed competitions and training for them, luggage cover excludes sports equipment while in use, and liability insurance carries an exclusion for damage caused with craft, under which some insurers also class a sailboard.

What is covered in funboarding?

Your cover falls into three parts: yourself, the other person and the equipment.

Yourself

Injury and medical costs

Recreational sailing usually falls within the ordinary cover.

  • Treatment and transport on the spot
  • Repatriation through the emergency assistance centre
  • Report competitions separately
The other party

Liability after a collision

If you hit a swimmer or another surfer, Article 6:162 DCC applies.

  • Injury and damage to third parties
  • Watch the watercraft exclusion
  • Never admit liability yourself
Equipment

Board, mast and sail

Your equipment is insured as luggage, not while you are sailing.

  • Theft from the car covered only in part
  • A hired board falls under care, custody and control
  • The hire company's deposit is your risk

What is covered

SituationStandardWith extension
Medical expenses after a fall or collisionYesYes
A search and rescue operation on open waterProvided thatYes
Liability after a collision with a swimmerProvided thatYes
Your own board breaking while sailingNoProvided that
Taking part in a speed or slalom competitionNoProvided that
Sailing when the event is called off or from a closed beachNoNo

What is actually covered is set out in the policy conditions and the insurance card (verzekeringskaart) that you receive in advance.

Where things go wrong in practice

Two points that determine whether your policy pays after an accident on the water.

Competitions fall outside the ordinary cover

Travel and personal accident policies exclude four categories as standard: mountain sports off the beaten track, air sports, deep diving and speed contests. Funboarding mainly touches on the last of these. A local slalom or speed run with timing counts too, however informal the organisation.

Your board is precisely not insured while you are sailing

Baggage cover excludes sports equipment while in use: a broken mast or a torn sail on the water is not luggage damage. If you hire equipment, the care, custody and control exclusionapplies on your liability insurance. Report damage straight away, as Article 7:941 of the Dutch Civil Code requires.

What does your premium depend on?

  • Risk class of the sport: funboarding sits in the middle class
  • Recreational or in competition: competitions attract a surcharge
  • Destination. Europe, Cape Verde or further afield
  • Duration of the trip: a single week or the whole season
  • Insuring the equipment as well: declare the board and sail separately
  • Sums insured: especially medical costs and disability

Insurers weigh these details differently. That is where your saving is.

How we arrange it

  1. You request a quoteWe take stock of your situation, risk and wishes.
  2. We compareseveral insurers, on premium as well as conditions.
  3. You receive a proposalWith an explanation of the differences and the exclusions.
  4. We arrange the switchIncluding cancellation, so there is no gap in cover.

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Frequently asked questions

This is what people ask us most.

Is funboarding a risk sport for insurers?

Usually not. With most insurers, recreational windsurfing sits in the normal risk class, unlike mountain sports or deep diving. If you take part in competitions or sail in the waves at an ocean spot, check the exclusions in your conditions.

Does my liability insurance cover a collision?

That depends on the definition in the policy. Many liability policies exclude damage caused with watercraft and class a sailboard as such. Others make an exception for small, unpowered craft. Ask about this before you travel.

Is my own board insured?

As luggage, often yes; while sailing, no. Breakage or loss on the water falls under the exclusion for sports equipment in use. Theft from a car is usually covered only in part, and only if the board was stowed out of sight.

What if I am injured and have to be rescued?

Call your insurer's emergency assistance centre before you incur costs. They arrange the guarantee of payment for treatment and transport. The costs of a rescue operation on open water are not covered everywhere; have this confirmed in writing in advance.

Are you going funboarding?

Have it confirmed before you travel what is arranged for yourself, your liability and your equipment.

Request a quote

Prefer to call? 072 - 509 24 56, weekdays 09:00–17:00.
Claim on the road? Emergency line 06 - 55 20 40 72.

About our service

Finass Verzekert is a trading name of Finass Advies B.V. We advise on and arrange non-life insurance on the basis of an objective analysis of several insurers, and receive commission for this from the insurer, which is included in the premium. You pay no separate advice fee. Before you take out cover, we establish your wishes and needs.

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This page was written and checked by an adviser at Finass Verzekert. Last updated on .

The information on this page is general in nature and is not personal advice.