{"id":12742,"date":"2023-03-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/?p=12742"},"modified":"2023-04-10T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T20:10:10","slug":"four-things-you-might-not-realize-about-boat-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/four-things-you-might-not-realize-about-boat-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Four things you might not realize about boat insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Boat Insurance | <a href=\"https:\/\/app.usecanopy.com\/c\/Shield-Insurance-Agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Start a quote Today!\">Start a quote Today!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Purchasing boat insurance is important for boat owners in Michigan. Shield Insurance Agency provides boat insurance policies that can cover your watercraft.<\/p>\n<p>Before you buy boat insurance, it&#8217;s a good idea to spend some time researching how boat insurance works\u00a0and what the different coverage options are.<\/p>\n<h2>The following are four things you might not realize about boat insurance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h3>A boat insurance policy typically offers some coverage for belongings in your boat.<\/h3>\n<p>If you keep valuable items in your boat, these items can be covered up to a certain amount by your boat insurance policy.<\/p>\n<h3>Boat insurance is frequently required by marinas.<\/h3>\n<p>You aren&#8217;t required by law to have boat insurance in Michigan. However, boat owners often need coverage because it is a requirement of the marina they use to store their boats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Boat insurance policies specify a certain geographic area.\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Boat owners need to realize that they won&#8217;t be covered if they travel in their boat outside of the coverage region that&#8217;s specified by their policy. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important for boat owners to let their boat insurance provider know where they&#8217;ll be traveling with their boat when they buy their policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>A number of boat insurance policy add-ons are available.<\/h3>\n<p>When you buy a boat insurance policy, you may want to take advantage of various policy add-ons. Add-ons available for boat insurance policies include coverage for dock contract liabilities, ice and freezing issues, towing, boat trailers, and equipment like fishing tackle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Reach Out To Us<\/h3>\n<p>Do you have questions about boat insurance coverage in Michigan? Get in touch with us at Shield Insurance Agency to learn more about boat insurance coverage. 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Shield Insurance Agency provides boat insurance policies that can cover your watercraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,1,2],"tags":[182,71,62],"class_list":["post-12742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boat-watercraft-insurance","category-insurance","category-shield-blog","tag-boat-insurance","tag-michigan","tag-shield-insurance-agency"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12763,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742\/revisions\/12763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}