Insurance

Who reads the fine print of your insurance policy? I mean, I have tried but after the first 28 pages of stuff I don’t understand, I tend to give in. Insurance is important, I have it in several areas. Yet it is not until you make a claim that you can be sure it is worth the money you put towards it. Case in point, those people who have their houses flooded to only be told that on page 34 there is a clause that means the rain had to fall directly on your house to be covered.

There are cases where you realise the money you have been paying has been more than worth it. Cover for a hip replacement perhaps, or incapacity benefits when you are off work due to injury.

I bought two lockable straps to lock down my surfboards during this trip. A type of insurance I guess.  Now, I could have gone years of using these locks thinking that they will stop my boards from getting stolen from the top of the trailer or roof of the car, and probably spent a lot of that time thinking in the back of my mind, that they may actually be really easy to cut and get to the boards.

I then lost the keys.

I then tried to get the boards off without the keys. Four days of talking to a locksmith, borrowing a pair of bolt cutters and finally a solid two hours of basically dismantling part of the trailer, and I finally got the boards.

It’s nice to know when you can trust your insurance.

Good luck anyone who wants to steal my surfboards!