"John H" wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 03:05:25 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:50:19 -0500, "Bert Robbins"
wrote:

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One major difference between a marine insurance company and a car
insurance company willing to write a policy on a boat is that a boater
can buy a "yacht" policy through a marine insurance company.

Chuck, I can tell that you really don't know anything about USAA and the
services they provide to their members.


Care to enlighten we ignorant few? Their website doesn't mention
boating insurance.... but, ever mindful of a good deal, I'm
interested.

I think Chuck is correct in his assessment that companies regularly
insuring marine concerns have a better understanding and response than
those not doing so.... Personally, I got tired of being dropped by
insurors because my boat was on the East Coast. Every time a major
hurricane hit the East Coast the geographical extent of insurance
cancellations crept North.... wave after wave....

I finally settled on a marine insuror and I no longer have to play the
cat and mouse game by proxy held between Mother Nature and
underwriters that just don't have their heart in marine casualty....

Gene, if you're not an officer in the military, active or retired, forget
it.

They have opened up membership to enlisted also and many years ago they
created a subsidary named CIC that insured the dependents, that's how I got
into the USAA system once reaching the age of majority.

During the time I was enlisted in the USMC I had a military dependents ID
card and my military ID, the red one, and I had an officer's sticker on my
car. It was fun driving into my unit compound for the first couple of
weekends when everyone was saluting the car. They finally caugh on and
ignored me after that. However when I was on ATD down at Cherry Point I was
great to drive with on base because of the good old blue sticker.