Accidents and Major Damages

This page is for accidents and major damagess. In case of minor damages, such as as replacing missing shackles, taping shrouds etc. please refer to the YCC maintenance page.

Damaged sails

Boat users are kindly requested to repair small holes by using the Sail repair kit.

For major sails damages, please contact one of the maintenance coordinators before taking any action and enter details in the log book of the boat.

Extended damage

In case of extended damage, such as broken halyards, lost rudders, holes in the hull etc., contact one of the person in charge of the boat and offer your help for the repair.

Enter details concerning the damage in the log book of the boat. Indicate clearly, if justified, that the boat is out of use and try to inform the people who have reserved the boat after you.

Accidents

In case of an accident (i.e. contact with a person, a boat or an obstacle causing injury to persons, damage to your boat, damage to other boats and/or deterioration of the installations in the harbour), take immediately the following steps:

• People first! Provide assistance and contact emergency services, as needed.
• Seek contact with the owners of all boats which may have touched yours.
• Go and see, the same day still, the police if the owners of the other boat or boats involved are absent.
• Inform the YCC responsible(s) of maintenance and insurance.
• Complete an accident report and send it by email to ycc-insurance@cern.ch who will take care of transmitting the report to the insurance company
• Enter details concerning the damage in the log-book of the boat; indicate clearly, if justified, that the boat is out of use and try to inform the people who have reserved the boat after you.

Owners of private boats will not take lightly a seemingly insignificant scratch on the hull. Apologise for the inconvenience, but do not discuss the extent of the damage, do not enter into a debate as to responsability for the accident, do not sign any declaration of guilt, do not ask for such a declaration either.

Damage is in many cases covered by the YCC insurance, provided action is taken sufficiently quickly. Although every attempt should be made to avoid accidents, the YCC recognises that accidents are an unavoidable part of sailing. However, failure to take the above actions after an accident is considered a serious breach of YCC internal rules.

Last updated June 2024, TF