New to the site, competant crew.

[Shortspeter]

Male looking to help crew, past boating experience as a senior sailing and canoeing instructor. Has some experience on inland waterways, able to crew and helm. As I'm retired I'm not restricted re time away. Have some arthritis but as yet has not impeded activity.

[TR Chef Steff]

Hi, where in the country are you? X

[bottle]

On the left just under his name etc it says Woking Surrey

[TR Chef Steff]

I'm on a mobile, just shows his name, also no mention in his profile!

Thanks though!

 

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[Collie]

Hi Shortspeter

I occasionally need some help to do a flight of locks - but how far are you willing to travel to help out? I see that you are in Surrey, so maybe the Oxford/Grand union would be a bit distant for you?

Best wishes

[The Boater]

I am also available as experienced crew. I have both wide and narrow beam experience, and can single hand for those who need their boat moving to a new location.

Ian 07704 249 523.

[bottle]

Volunteering is good, you are not advertising are you. (forum rules)

 

and

 

If moving someone else's boat, for a fee, are you fully insured?

 

If you are volunteering to move someone's boat, then they will have to make sure their insurance cover you and the boat.

[The Boater]

I don't make any charge for this at all for private boaters, I do it for the love of boating only. It is a bonus if I get fed and watered.

Ian

[The Boater]

I don't make any charge to private boaters. It is a bonus if I get fed and watered.

Ian

[Peter X]

I haven't seen the small print of a boat insurance policy, and am happy to be corrected if wrong, but I would expect a typical policy for a leisure boater to cover any guests invited on the boat, including all aspects of operation of the boat such as steering and lock operation. Where I suspect the underwriter will start to have kittens is if money changes hands; if a boat has paying passengers it becomes a business, or if crew are paid they become employees. Either way there is paperwork involved.

 

A professional boat mover would be a business with their own insurance, but does a typical policy cover the owner to lend a boat to friends (or to some knowledgeable amateurs on Crew Swap) without being aboard if there is no payment, I wouldn't know? I could understand an insurance company stipulating that the owner must be aboard.