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Yacht Care & Maintenance

Yacht Care & Maintenance What is just as important as yacht insurance to protect your marine investment? Consistent boat or yacht care and a regular maintenance schedule. Summer is in full swing. The best way to get the most out of the boating season is to ensure that your yacht or boat is well maintained. […]

Prevent Secondary Drowning

How to Prevent Secondary Drowning After an Incident Most boaters are well aware of drowning prevention strategies and yacht safety during emergency situations, but have you heard of secondary drowning? This dangerous possibility, also called dry drowning, occurs after someone has had a water incident or near-drowning experience. Like an aftershock after an earthquake, secondary […]

Ghost Yacht Reminds Us to Check Insurance

Ghost Yacht Reminds Us to Check Insurance Have you heard about the wandering yacht some call a ghost ship that beached itself in New Hampshire? It will have you checking your yacht insurance policy! This past winter, a 70-foot yacht named the Guest List washed up along the shore of popular holiday town Hampton Beach. […]

Global Marine Insurance Goes West

MEDIA RELEASE August 18, 2014 Global Marine Insurance Expands West Coast Operations Traverse City company announces new Pacific Northwest presence Seattle, WA -Global Marine Insurance announces that Gregg Reynolds and Ron Randall have joined the company to offer clients local expertise in the Pacific Northwest. “We feel the unique needs of boaters and marine business […]

Maritime Alliance Schooner Festival

As local yacht insurance providers, Global Marine Insurance is thrilled to be the main event sponsor of the Traverse City Schooner Festival 2014. We invite you to come and join in the festivities! The Traverse City Schooner Festival 2014 is a community-wide celebration of Northern Michigan’s maritime history. Our region’s rich and storied past has inspired […]

Marina Electric Shock Drowning Dangers

As marine business insurance specialists, we know that marinas have to be scrupulous about compliance and vigilant about safety. A recent Traverse City case involving the marina electrocution drowning of a teenage boy underscores how seriously things can go wrong if standards are lax. In August of 2011, Michigan teenager Michael Knudsen and his friends […]

Boat Dealership Demo Safety

Each year, there are serious recreational boating accidents. Most accidents are preventable, but due to inexperienced captains, inclement weather, mechanical failures, alcohol and other factors poor choices are made that lead to a tragedy. It’s not just leisure boat trips that can go wrong. When boat dealers take prospective boat owners out to demo a […]

Marina & Boat Manufacturer Forklift Safety

As marine business insurance specialists one challenge we see for marina and boat manufacturers is fork lift operators with inadequate training. Often on the job training results in the sharing of unsafe practices and inadequate safety measures. The results can be catastrophic when operators make a mistake while stacking boats on racks sometimes several stories […]

Reviving a Drowning Victim

As a yacht insurance provider, we hear stories of tragedies, which in turn can make the pursuit of safety on the water a passion. We hope that this simple advice in addition to some formal training will help you to enjoy the water safely and help others in the event of an emergency. There is […]