Know Your Boat

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Chapter 1

Know Your Boat

•1 Power Types? Cruisers • Gasoline engines • Diesel engines • Jet drive •2 Some types are

Runabouts PWC

1 bow 3 gunwale

beam 3

4 freeboard hull 1 5 draft

1 forward 3 starboard

1 Houseboat

2 Sportfisherman

1 Cuddy, small cabin without full headroom

Quarter, 2 3 Berths, after part of a sleeping accommodations boat’s side

1 Galleys, 2 Heads, nautical kitchens marine toilets

flying bridge 2 1 deck cockpit 3

4 sole

1 safety lanyard

2 steering control

1 steering nozzle

2 impeller 3 intake grate

1 impeller

2 steerable

•1 What is Standing Rigging?

•2 What is Running Rigging?

mainsail 2 3 mast

4 spar 1 headsail stays 5 6 shrouds

8 boom 7 helm

1 keel

Catboat 1 Cutter Yawl 5 3

Sloop Ketch 2 4 16 Copyright 2005 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Association, Inc. Length of Boats 4 Class 3: 40 ft to less than 65 ft 3 Class 2: 26 ft to 2 less than 40 ft Class 1: 16 ft to 1 less than 26 ft Class A: less than 16 ft

1• Displacement

2• Planing

3• Combination

1 Canoes & Kayaks

3 2 Utility Boat Inflatable

1 flat bottom 2 vee bottom

3 round bottom 4 multi-hull

•1 What are the 4 types of propulsion?

1. Outboard 2. Inboard/outboard 3. Inboard 4. Jet

outboard

Stern Drive

Inboard

Jet Drive

1• The maximum width of the hull is known as the:

a• Quarter. b• LOA. c• Beam. d• Tiller.

2• Freeboard is the:

a• right side of a boat when facing the bow. b• distance from the water to the lowest point of a boat where water could come on board. c• height of a boat’s gunwale measured inside the cockpit. d• provision of food and quarters for volunteer crews on ocean races.

3• Three factors affect the seaworthiness and safety of a vessel, its design, construction materials, and:

a• baggywrinkle. b• type of head. c• size. d• cockpit.

4• The lowest part of the interior of the hull is the:

a• helm. b• cuddy. c• quarter. d• bilge.

5• The measurement of how deeply a boat’s hull penetrates the water is its:

a• draft. b• head. c• helm. d• beam.

6• A displacement hull is one that:

a• moves through the water by pushing it aside. b• skims along the surface of the water. c• is capable of very high speeds. d• may easily capsize in heavy seas.