Marine Trades Insurance

Our history in marine trades Insurance

Noble Insurance Brokers brings together the marine trades insurance experience of Noble Marine Insurance, Yachtline Insurance, Yachtmaster Insurance Services and WG Yachts. Our collective experience caters for everything from small work boats and charter yachts to marine repairers and boat builders. For over 50 years, these businesses have been serving the marine insurance community.

Yachtmaster Insurance has been providing specialist marine insurance to the marine pleasure craft community. The experience and expertise we have gained allows us to find solutions for almost any marine insurance requirement.

Noble Insurance Brokers has access to a wide range of solutions from across the marine trades insurance market. Using our expertise we are able to find competitive marine trade insurance solutions.

Noble Insurance Brokers works with you to find the right solution from our panel of insurance providers. 

Marine Trade Insurance

From bustling coastal marinas along the Solent to independent boat repair yards on inland waterways, the UK’s leisure marine SME sector keeps the nation afloat. Operating a marine business is highly rewarding, but handling, repairing, and storing vessels involves complex, overlapping risks.

Standard commercial insurance packages typically fall short where the water begins. Specialist marine trade insurance ensures that your property, your team, and the vessels trusted to your care are fully protected against coastal elements and operational mishaps.

A robust marine trade policy provides the specialist protection required by marine businesses, including: specialised

Defective Workmanship & Shiprepairers’ Liability: If a faulty repair or hull modification leads to a vessel sinking or sustaining damage later down the line, this cover handles the resulting legal claims and rectification costs.

Vessels in Your Care, Custody, and Control: Standard business insurance won't cover third-party property. This specialist extension protects your business if a customer's luxury yacht or rib is damaged while being craned, dry-stored, or moored on your pontoon.

Marine Property & Infrastructure: Covers physical damage to specialized coastal assets, including floating pontoons, jetties, slipways, hoists, and clubhouse buildings against storm surges and accidental impact.

Public and Employers’ Liability: Protects against slips on wet decking, rigging accidents, or injuries sustained by your shipwrights and engineers working in high-risk environments.

The Risk of Lifting Operations Moving pleasure craft via sub-contractors or using your own hoists introduces additional liability exposure. Marine trade policies explicitly account for "hook risks".