Huntsville, Alabama Boat and Yacht Insurance
Burkett & Associates Insurance Agency, in Huntsville, Alabama will protect you, your boat and your passengers with the precise boat insurance needed for your vessel. We know our area and the waters in it. Our office is located at 2400 Bob
Wallace Avenue, Huntsville, Alabama which is surrounded by several
counties including Marshall, Jackson, Limestone, and Morgan which have
beautiful lake areas with great boating. Burkett & Associates Insurance has served boaters in Huntsville, Alabama and the surrounding areas since 1991.
In 2010, the U.S. Coast Guard reported that there were 4604 accidents, 3153 injuries and 672 deaths. Three-fourths of the fatalities were victims of drowning. Eighty-eight per cent were not wearing their life jacket. Eight out of the ten who drowned were using vessels less than 21 feet in length. These statistics are proof of the risk involved in boating.
If you have spent any time in the water, be it a lake, river or ocean, you know what can happen, happens quickly.
Last summer, a party of four took a sailboat out on a Great Lake at about 1:00 am. Once they were a few miles from shore, they decided to take a midnight dip. All four of them. Before the boat was anchored. As soon as the captain hit the water, he realized what they had done. By the time he began furiously swimming toward the boat, it had already drifted 20 feet in 10 seconds. His lifeless body was found a week later floating near shore. Two of the passengers threaded water for four hours. Some early morning fisherman rescued them. The Coast Guard located the other passenger. He did not survive. The boat drifted about eight miles south.
As serene as the water appears is when a storm will rear up or another boat will lose an engine in the marina and collide into you.
A boating accident can ruin your peace of mind, finances and in the case of the poor people in the sad story above, it can take a life.
For the price of a few dollars a month, you will be protected against any calamity that occurs on the water or to your vessel.
Complete the Protection Savings Form right now, before that boat launches. The professionals at Burkett & Associates Insurance Agency will contact you with boat protection that will pay for itself in peace of mind as well as dollars and cents. To speak with an Huntsville agent call 256-704-7400.