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Novamar Insurance Group helps marine businesses secure tailored insurance solutions for vessels, crews, equipment, property, liability, and day-to-day operations. Whether you operate charter vessels, commercial fishing boats, a marina, boatyard, or marine service business, we help identify coverage that fits your risks and contractual requirements.

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Charter Vessels
Commercial Fishing Vessels
Marine Artisan Coverage
Boatbuilders
Boatyards
Marinas

Charter Vessels

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Charter vessel operators face unique risks involving passengers, crew, vessel damage, weather, navigation, and liability. Novamar helps arrange coverage for inspected and uninspected passenger vessels, fishing charters, eco-tours, sailing charters, dinner cruises, and other commercial passenger operations.

Charter Vessel FAQs

Charter vessels need hull and equipment coverage, liability, passenger liability, crew coverage, and fuel/oil spill liability coverage.
Yes, Protection and Indemnity vessel liability coverage protects your business if passengers are injured or property is damaged during a charter.
Cost depends on vessel size and age, vessel type, value, type of charter operation, passenger capacity, use, location, captain experience, safety practices, and claims history.
They can be. Fishing charters may need coverage for fishing gear, tackle, tournaments, crew, as well as passenger exposures

Commercial Fishing Vessels

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Commercial fishing operations face demanding conditions, often have valuable gear on board, crew exposures, and changing catch seasons. Novamar helps fishing vessel owners protect their vessels, equipment, liability, and operations with coverage designed for the realities of commercial fishing.

Commercial Fishing FAQs

It covers the vessel, machinery, fishing gear, liability, crew-related risks, fuel/oil spill liability coverage, and other loss-related expenses.
Coverage may be available for nets, traps, electronics, tackle, and other specialized fishing equipment.
Crew coverage depends on the policy and operation. We can help review your crew-related liability insurance needs.
Vessel value, age, length, fishing type, navigation area, season, gear, claims history, and captain experience all matter.

Marine Artisan Coverage

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Marine artisans work on vessels, docks, marinas, and marine equipment, often at multiple job sites. Novamar helps marine contractors secure coverage for liability, tools, completed work, and property in their care, custody, or control, and can name marinas and boatyards as additional insured as needed.

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Marine Artisan Coverage FAQs

Boat mechanics, painters, welders, electricians, detailers, divers, carpenters, riggers, and marine service contractors.
It may include general liability, tools, equipment, completed operations, non-owned vessel Protection and Indemnity Liability for non-owned vessels you operate, and coverage for work performed on vessels.
Yes, coverage may apply to resulting property damage to a vessel related to your work, depending on the policy terms.
Yes, tools and equipment coverage can typically be added for items used at docks, yards, aboard vessels, marinas, or other job sites.

Boatbuilders

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Boatbuilders need protection for materials, vessels under construction, sea trials, product liability, property, tools, and business operations. Novamar helps boatbuilders arrange coverage that supports production, repair, launch, and delivery exposures.

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Boatbuilders Insurance FAQs

Boatbuilders typically need property, liability, builders risk, product liability, tools, equipment, and sea trial coverage.
Yes, builder's risk coverage can protect vessels while they are being built, repaired, or prepared for delivery and during sea trials.
Yes. Product liability can help protect against claims related to defects, failures, or completed vessels.
Yes, coverage is available for materials, parts, inventory, molds, engines, and equipment.

Boatyards

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Boatyards manage vessels, equipment, employees, contractors, storage, hauling, launching, repairs, and customer property. Novamar helps boatyard operators protect their property, liability, equipment, and vessels in their care.

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Boatyard Insurance FAQs

Boatyards need property for buildings, tools, equipment, parts, cranes, travelifts, railways, general liability, marina operators legal liability, workers’ compensation, and pollution coverage.
Coverage is available for customers' vessels in your care, custody, or control.
It can, but hauling, blocking, launching, and storage exposures should be clearly included in the policy.
Contractors usually need their own insurance. Boatyards should require certificates of insurance naming the boatyard as additional insureds before work begins.

Marinas

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Marinas face risks involving docks, slips, fuel docks, tenants, customers, vessels, storage, weather, cyber risks, and waterfront property. Novamar helps marina owners and operators secure coverage for property, liability, marina operations, cyber exposures, and customers’ vessels.

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Marina Insurance FAQs

Marinas may need property, general liability, marina operators legal liability, docks, piers, pollution, cyber exposures, and workers’ compensation coverage.
Yes, coverage is available for docks, piers, slips, gangways, pilings, and related marina structures.
Marina operators legal liability covers damage to customers' boats in your care, custody, or control.
Fuel dock operations can be covered, but they require careful review due to fire, spill, storage tanks, and pollution risks.
Location, property value, dock condition, number of slips, services offered, storm exposure, claims history, and safety procedures all affect cost.

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Marine insurance is highly specialized. Novamar Insurance Group can help review your operation, identify key exposures, and connect you with coverage options built for your business.

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