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Registrant Name dei_EntityRegistrantName Starboard Investment Trust
Prospectus Date rr_ProspectusDate Feb. 12, 2018
Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund | Institutional Class Shares  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed On Purchases (as a % of offering price) rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a % of the lesser of amount purchased or redeemed) rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther none
Redemption Fee (as a % of amount redeemed) rr_RedemptionFeeOverRedemption none
Management Fees rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 1.00% [1]
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets none [1]
Other Expenses rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 3.46% [1]
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets 0.31% [1],[2]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 4.77% [1]
Less Fee Waiver and/or Expense Limitation rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets 3.21% [1],[3]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Limitation rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.56% [1]
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 159
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 1,148
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 2,141
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 4,646
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 159
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 1,148
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05 2,141
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10 $ 4,646
Performance Availability Website Address [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityWebSiteAddress http://www.ncfunds.com/fundpages/854.htm
Year to Date Return, Label rr_YearToDateReturnLabel Year-to-date return
Bar Chart, Year to Date Return, Date rr_BarChartYearToDateReturnDate Dec. 31, 2017
Bar Chart, Year to Date Return rr_BarChartYearToDateReturn 9.28%
Highest Quarterly Return, Label rr_HighestQuarterlyReturnLabel Highest quarterly return
Highest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturnDate Mar. 31, 2017
Highest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartHighestQuarterlyReturn 7.12%
Lowest Quarterly Return, Label rr_LowestQuarterlyReturnLabel Lowest quarterly return
Lowest Quarterly Return, Date rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturnDate Dec. 31, 2014
Lowest Quarterly Return rr_BarChartLowestQuarterlyReturn (4.86%)
Past 1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 9.28%
Past 5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 5.16%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 4.91% [4]
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Sep. 20, 2012
Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund | Institutional Class Shares | After taxes on distributions  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Past 1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 7.35%
Past 5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 3.07%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 2.87% [4]
Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund | Institutional Class Shares | After taxes on distributions and sale of shares  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Past 1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 5.24%
Past 5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 3.01%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 2.84% [4]
Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund | Institutional Class Shares | S&P 500 Total Return Index (reflects no deductions for fees and expenses)  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Past 1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 7.47% [5]
Past 5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 5.80% [5]
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 5.99% [4],[5]
Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund | Class C Shares  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed On Purchases (as a % of offering price) rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a % of the lesser of amount purchased or redeemed) rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther 1.00%
Redemption Fee (as a % of amount redeemed) rr_RedemptionFeeOverRedemption none
Management Fees rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 1.00% [1]
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 1.00% [1]
Other Expenses rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 3.46% [1]
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets 0.31% [1],[2]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 5.77% [1]
Less Fee Waiver and/or Expense Limitation rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets 3.21% [1],[3]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Limitation rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 2.56% [1]
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 359
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 1,432
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 2,587
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 5,398
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 259
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 1,432
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05 2,587
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10 $ 5,398
Performance Availability Website Address [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityWebSiteAddress http://www.ncfunds.com/fundpages/855.htm
Past 1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 8.22%
Past 5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 4.00%
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 4.00% [4]
Inception Date rr_AverageAnnualReturnInceptionDate Sep. 26, 2012
Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund | Class C Shares | S&P 500 Total Return Index (reflects no deductions for fees and expenses)  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Past 1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 7.47% [5]
Past 5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 5.80% [5]
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception 6.18% [4],[5]
Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund | Class A Shares  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed On Purchases (as a % of offering price) rr_MaximumSalesChargeImposedOnPurchasesOverOfferingPrice 4.50%
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a % of the lesser of amount purchased or redeemed) rr_MaximumDeferredSalesChargeOverOther none
Redemption Fee (as a % of amount redeemed) rr_RedemptionFeeOverRedemption none
Management Fees rr_ManagementFeesOverAssets 1.00% [1]
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees rr_DistributionAndService12b1FeesOverAssets 0.25% [1]
Other Expenses rr_OtherExpensesOverAssets 3.46% [1]
Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses rr_AcquiredFundFeesAndExpensesOverAssets 0.31% [1],[2]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses rr_ExpensesOverAssets 5.02% [1]
Less Fee Waiver and/or Expense Limitation rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssets 3.21% [1],[3]
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Waiver and/or Expense Limitation rr_NetExpensesOverAssets 1.81% [1]
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleYear01 $ 626
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear03 1,615
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear05 2,604
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleYear10 5,074
1 Year rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear01 626
3 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear03 1,615
5 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear05 2,604
10 Years rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionYear10 $ 5,074
Performance One Year or Less [Text] rr_PerformanceOneYearOrLess The Class A Shares have not yet commenced operations, and therefore will not have data to present for one calendar year.
Performance Availability Website Address [Text] rr_PerformanceAvailabilityWebSiteAddress http://www.ncfunds/fundpages/879.htm
Past 1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 none [6]
Past 5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 none [6]
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception none [4],[6]
Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund | Class A Shares | S&P 500 Total Return Index (reflects no deductions for fees and expenses)  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Past 1 Year rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear01 7.47% [5],[6]
Past 5 Years rr_AverageAnnualReturnYear05 5.80% [5],[6]
Since Inception rr_AverageAnnualReturnSinceInception none [4],[5],[6]
Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund  
Risk/Return: rr_RiskReturnAbstract  
Risk/Return [Heading] rr_RiskReturnHeading

CAVALIER 
HEDGED HIGH INCOME FUND
Objective [Heading] rr_ObjectiveHeading
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES
Objective, Primary [Text Block] rr_ObjectivePrimaryTextBlock
The Cavalier Hedged High Income Fund (the "Fund") seeks to achieve current income and real return.
Expense [Heading] rr_ExpenseHeading
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
Expense Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseNarrativeTextBlock
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund:
Shareholder Fees Caption [Text] rr_ShareholderFeesCaption

Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
Operating Expenses Caption [Text] rr_OperatingExpensesCaption

Annual Fund Operating Expenses

 

Fee Waiver or Reimbursement over Assets, Date of Termination rr_FeeWaiverOrReimbursementOverAssetsDateOfTermination September 30, 2019
Portfolio Turnover [Heading] rr_PortfolioTurnoverHeading

Portfolio Turnover. 

Portfolio Turnover [Text Block] rr_PortfolioTurnoverTextBlock

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio).  A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account.  These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund's performance.  During the most recent fiscal period, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 184.78% of the average value of its portfolio.

Portfolio Turnover, Rate rr_PortfolioTurnoverRate 184.78%
Expenses Not Correlated to Ratio Due to Acquired Fund Fees [Text] rr_ExpensesNotCorrelatedToRatioDueToAcquiredFundFees The "Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses" and "Net Annual Fund Operating Expenses" will not match the Fund's gross and net expense ratios reported in the Financial Highlights from the Fund's financial statementswhich reflect the operating expenses of the Fund and do not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses.
Expense Example [Heading] rr_ExpenseExampleHeading

Example. 

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block] rr_ExpenseExampleNarrativeTextBlock

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.  The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods.  The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and the Fund's operating expenses remain the same.  The example includes the Fund's contractual expense limitation through September 30, 2019.  Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example, No Redemption, By Year, Caption [Text] rr_ExpenseExampleNoRedemptionByYearCaption

You would pay the following expenses if you did not redeem your shares:

Strategy [Heading] rr_StrategyHeading

PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES

Strategy Narrative [Text Block] rr_StrategyNarrativeTextBlock

The Fund's portfolio managers seek to achieve the Fund's investment objective of current income and real return by investing in mutual, exchange-traded, and/or closed end funds that are registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act") and not affiliated with the Fund ("Portfolio Funds") or making direct investments in portfolio securities based upon institutional research. The Fund may invest in Master Limited Partnerships ("MLPs"),  Real Estate Investment Trusts ("REITs"), and Limited Partnerships that the portfolio managers believe will generate income.  The Fund is considered "diversified" under the 1940 Act.

 

The investments of the Fund and Portfolio Funds will be comprised primarily of fixed income securities, principally consisting of bonds, corporate debt securities, and government securities.  Such investments will frequently include high yield corporate bonds (or "junk bonds"), emerging market debt, and mortgage- and asset-backed securities.  The Fund will invest a significant amount of its assets in securities that are related below investment grade at the time of investment.  The Fund and Portfolio Funds may invest in fixed income securities of any maturity and any credit rating, including bonds of issuers in default. The Fund and Portfolio Funds may occasionally invest in inverse high yield investments (which attempt to short high yield or "junk" bonds) to provide a hedge to the portfolio during negative credit events, such as when an increase in the default rates of any of the U.S. high yield sectors occurs or when there is an increase in the high yield bond spread.  A high yield bond spread is the percentage difference in current yields of various classes of high-yield bonds compared investment-grade corporate bonds or another benchmark bond measure.  The inverse high yield investments that the Fund and Portfolio Funds may invest in are exchange-traded funds ("ETFs") that provide inverse exposure to high yield or "junk" bond markets.  The Fund and Portfolio Funds do not have an established average portfolio duration and the average portfolio durations will vary.  The Fund and Portfolio Funds will not be limited in their investments by sector criteria, and may invest in foreign securities, including foreign securities in emerging markets.  The Portfolio Funds in which the Fund invests will have an investment objective similar to the Fund's or will otherwise hold permitted investments under the Fund's investment policies.  Although the Fund principally invests in Portfolio Funds with no sales related expenses or very low sales related expenses, the Fund is not precluded from investing in Portfolio Funds with sales-related expenses, redemption fees, and/or service fees.

 

The portfolio managers will sell a Portfolio Fund when a more attractive investment opportunity is identified or the Fund's portfolio needs to be rebalanced.  Decisions by the Advisor or Sub-Advisor to sell other portfolio securities will be based upon institutional research.  As a result of this strategy, the Fund may have a relatively high level of portfolio turnover compared to other mutual funds, which may affect the Fund's performance due to higher transaction costs and taxes.  Portfolio turnover will not be a limiting factor in making investment decisions.

Risk [Heading] rr_RiskHeading

PRINCIPAL RISKS OF INVESTING IN THE FUND

Risk Narrative [Text Block] rr_RiskNarrativeTextBlock
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Performance Narrative [Text Block] rr_PerformanceNarrativeTextBlock
Performance Information Illustrates Variability of Returns [Text] rr_PerformanceInformationIllustratesVariabilityOfReturns The following bar chart and tables provide an indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund's Institutional Class Shares performance from year to year and by showing how the average annual total returns for each class compared to that of a broad-based securities market index.
Performance Past Does Not Indicate Future [Text] rr_PerformancePastDoesNotIndicateFuture The Fund's past performance is not necessarily an indication of how the Fund will perform in the future.
Bar Chart [Heading] rr_BarChartHeading
Annual Return 2013 rr_AnnualReturn2013 8.66%
Annual Return 2014 rr_AnnualReturn2014 2.44%
Annual Return 2015 rr_AnnualReturn2015 (0.10%)
Annual Return 2016 rr_AnnualReturn2016 5.84%
Annual Return 2017 rr_AnnualReturn2017 9.28%
Bar Chart Closing [Text Block] rr_BarChartClosingTextBlock
Performance Table Heading rr_PerformanceTableHeading
Performance Table Uses Highest Federal Rate rr_PerformanceTableUsesHighestFederalRate After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes.
Performance Table Not Relevant to Tax Deferred rr_PerformanceTableNotRelevantToTaxDeferred Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor's tax situation and may differ from those shown and are not applicable to investors who hold Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account (IRA).
Performance Table One Class of after Tax Shown [Text] rr_PerformanceTableOneClassOfAfterTaxShown After-tax returns are shown for only one class of shares and after-tax returns will vary for other classes.
Performance Table Narrative rr_PerformanceTableNarrativeTextBlock
[1] The expense information in the table has been restated to reflect current fees rather than the fees in effect during the previous fiscal year.
[2] "Acquired Fund" means any investment company in which the Fund invests or has invested during the previous fiscal year. The "Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses" and "Net Annual Fund Operating Expenses" will not match the Fund's gross and net expense ratios reported in the Financial Highlights from the Fund's financial statements, which reflect the operating expenses of the Fund and do not include Acquired Fund Fees and Expenses.
[3] Cavalier Investment Funds, LLC, the investment advisor to the Fund (the "advisor"), has entered into an Expense Limitation Agreement with the Fund under which it has agreed to waive or reduce its fees and to assume other expenses of the Fund, if necessary, in an amount that limits the Fund's annual operating expenses (exclusive of interest, taxes, brokerage fees and commissions, extraordinary expenses, acquired fund fees and expenses, and payments under the Rule 12b-1 distribution plan) to not more than 1.25% of the average daily net assets of the Fund for each of the share classes. Net annual operating expenses for the Fund may exceed these limits to the extent that it incurs expenses enumerated above as exclusions. The Expense Limitation Agreement runs September 30, 2019, and may be terminated by the Board of Trustees of the Fund (the "Board" or the "Trustees"). The Advisor cannot recoup from the Fund any amounts paid by the Advisor under the Expense Limitation Agreement.
[4] The Institutional Class Shares began operating on September 20, 2012. The Class C Shares began operating on September 26, 2012. The Class A Shares have not yet commenced operations. The performance of the fund is attributable to its previous investment adviser until July 31, 2015.
[5] In prior prospectuses, the Fund compared its performance against the Barclays Capital Global High-Yield Index. The Advisor believes the Bank of America Merrill Lynch US High Yield Index is a more appropriate and accurate index against which to compare the Fund's investment strategies than the Barclays Capital Global High-Yield Index and, therefore, the Bank of America Merrill Lynch US High-Yield Index will replace the Barclays Capital Global High-Yield Index in future comparisons.
[6] The Class A Shares have not yet commenced operations, and therefore will not have performance data to present for one calendar year.