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Back - Answer-to stop or to propel boat backward by holding the clew of a sail out to windward. apparent wind - Answer-The wind aboard a moving boat aground - Answer-a boat whose keel is touching the bottom balance - Answer-the capability of the boat to sail straight without changing tille...

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US Sailing Basic Keelboat Exam
Questions with Correct Answers
Back - Answer-to stop or to propel boat backward by holding the clew of a sail out to
windward.

apparent wind - Answer-The wind aboard a moving boat

aground - Answer-a boat whose keel is touching the bottom

balance - Answer-the capability of the boat to sail straight without changing tiller
positions

bail - Answer-to empty a boat of water

Athwartships - Answer-across the boat from side to side

batten - Answer-a thin slat that slides into a pocket in the leech of a sail, helping it hold
its shape.

beam - Answer-the width of a boat at its widest point

beam reach - Answer-(point of sail) sailing approximately 90 degrees to the wind

bearing - Answer-the direction from one object to another expressed in compass
degrees

beating - Answer-a course sailed upwind

below - Answer-the area of a boat beneath the deck

bear away - Answer-to fall off, head away from the wind

bend - Answer-to attach a sail to a spar or a hearsay, or attach a line to a sail.

bight - Answer-a loop in a line

blanket - Answer-to use a sail or object to block the wind from filling a sail.

block - Answer-a pulley on a boat

boat hook - Answer-a pole with a hook on the end used for grabbing hold of a mooring
or retrieving something that has fallen overboard.

,bolt rope - Answer-the rope sown into the foot and the luff of some mainsails and the luff
of some jobs by which the sails are attached to the boat.

boom vang - Answer-a block and tackle system which pulls the boom down to assist sail
control

bottom - Answer-the land under the boat

bottom - Answer-the underside of the boat

Breast line - Answer-a short dockline leading off the beam of the boat directly to the
dock

Bow line - Answer-a line running from the bow of the boat to a dock or mooring

Bowline - Answer-a knot designed to make a loop that will not slip and can easily be
untied

broach - Answer-an uncontrolled rounding up into the wind, usually from a downwind
point of sail

Broad reach - Answer-(point of sail) sailing in a direction with the wind at the rear corner
of the boat (approximately 135 degrees from the bow)

bouy - Answer-a floating marker

Bulkhead - Answer-a wall that runs athwartships on a boat, usually providing structural
support to the hull.

By the lee - Answer-Sailing on a run with the wind coming over the same side of the
boat as the boom

cabin - Answer-the interior of the boat

can - Answer-an odd numbered, green, flat-topped bouy marking the left side of the
channel as you return to port.

Catboat - Answer-a boat with only a main sail and the mast located at the bow

capsize - Answer-to tip or turn a boat over

centerboard - Answer-a pivoting board that can be lowered and used like a keel to keep
a boat from slipping to leward

centerline - Answer-the middle of a boat running from bow to stern

, chafe - Answer-to wear on a line caused by rubbing

chainplates - Answer-strong metal plates which connect the shrouds to the boat

channel - Answer-a (usually narrow) path in the water, marked by bouys, in which the
water is deep enough to sail.

Chart - Answer-a nautical map

adrift - Answer-a boat drifting without control

charter - Answer-to rent a boat

chock - Answer-a guide mounted on the deck through which docklines and anchor rode
are run

chop - Answer-rough, short, steep waves

cleat - Answer-a nautical fitting that is used to secure a line.

clew - Answer-the lower, aft corner of the sail.

close-hauled - Answer-the point of sail that is closest to the wind.

Close reach - Answer-(point of sail) sailing in a direction with the wind forward of the
beam (about 70 degrees from the bow).

Coaming - Answer-the short protective wall surrounding the cockpit

Cockpit - Answer-the lower area in which the steering controls and sail controls are
located.

coil - Answer-to loop a line neatly so it can be stored

come about - Answer-to change direction by turning the bow through the wind; to tack

companionway - Answer-the steps leading from the cockpit or deck to the cabin below

compass rose - Answer-the twin circles on a chart which indicate the direction of true
North and magnetic north

course - Answer-the direction in which the boat is steered

crew - Answer-besides the skipper, anyone on board who helps sail the boat

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