Applies worldwide except in CA, OR, WA, AZ, NV and BC
As a BoatU.S. Member in good standing with valid towing service, TowBoatU.S. on-the-water service is available from our Licensed Towing Companies up to the per-incident service level on your Membership card at the time of the breakdown. Per-incident service levels include $50, $150, $350, $500, and Unlimited. The Unlimited Option has no per-incident limit for services as listed below, when a boat is disabled and towed within the same TowBoatU.S. Service Area. A TowBoatU.S. Service Area is defined as 50 coastal miles (25 miles and either direction to a TowBoatU.S. home port) and 25 miles offshore.
TowBoatU.S. Service applies to you and any recreational boat owned, borrowed or chartered by you and dispatch is available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. Service provides for the commercial towing of your disabled boat from the point of breakdown at sea to your port of choice; at sea battery jumpstarts, delivery of fuel, engine fluids and basic engine parts necessary to avoid a tow, subject to availability; ungrounding assistance for a soft grounding; and towing of your disabled boat from a restricted use dock to your port of choice for the purpose of making repairs. A restricted use dock is one from which you are required to move immediately, i.e. fuel or restaurant docks and docks without overnight facilities. After the first 30 days of Membership, TowBoatU.S. Service also includes up to ½ of the cost to tow your disabled boat from an unrestricted use dock or mooring, i.e. home docks or marinas, for the purpose of making repairs.
One Member's benefit applies per incident. An incident is an event or series of events arising from the breakdown. You are responsible to pay any expenses incurred in excess of your service level at the time service is delivered. In an emergency situation, contact the Coast Guard immediately. IN all other situations, contact TowBoatU.S. At times when TowBoatU.S. is not available, you must contact the 24-hour Dispatch Center via cell phone or USCG VHF relay at 800-391-4869 prior to accepting towing assistance. If Boat U.S. authorizes this assistance, you are then eligible to be reimbursed for towing from a breakdown location at sea to the nearest repair facility and soft ungrounding assistance up to $10 per foot of the boat, up to your per-incident service level ($1,000 for the Unlimited Towing Option). To receive reimbursement consideration, the invoice must be submitted within 90 days of the tow. Benefits or reimbursement payments under this service agreement may not be transferred or assigned to any other party.
Towing Services becomes effective 11:59 PM on the day of payment. This Service does not apply to: pre-existing conditions; or battery jump starts, dive service, and fuel delivery at a dock; or any tow from a repair or storage facility; or salvage, including but not limited to hard groundings, or any assistance requiring more than one vessel, pumps, divers, airbags, or other special equipment; or the cost of fuel, supplies or equipment; or charges for escort, navigational assistance, search for lost vessels, retrieving anchors or other boating equipment; or charges to repair, haul, launch, commission, decommission, moor, dock or other marina charges. It does not apply to you as a guest or as a paid captain on any boat; or any boat used for commercial purposes. Service will be provided to the safe limits of the local towing company's capabilities, but may be limited or will not be rendered when the disabled vessel cannot be safely or reasonably reached or secured and/or properly serviced without damage or grave danger to either vessel or people on board. This service is not a promise of rescue and will be limited to that which can be provided with equipment ordinarily used for Member service by TowBoatU.S. This Service is not an insurance policy and does not provide for any liability or damages arising out of injury to persons boats or property.
You are required to use care and diligence in the operation and maintenance of the boat. BoatU.S. may, at its sole discretion, withdraw this Service for abuses including excessive towing or lack of such care. This Service does not apply if insurance or other prepaid towing services are providing for the same incident. Service expires with your Membership.
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