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1. The Language Of Boating Flashcards

1
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What is a vessel?

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A boat, ship, or other moving and floating craft.

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What is a yacht?

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A power or sail vessel that is used for recreation and pleasure–as opposed to work. The term is usually reserved for boats 40 feet or more in length with accomodation; in American usage the idea of size and luxury is usually conveyed, either sail or power.

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In sailboat racing, what is every competing boat called?

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A “yacht” without regard to size or accomodation.

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What is an auxiliary sailboat?

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Usually over roughly 18 feet long and have inboard gasoline or diesel auxiliary engines; smaller ones often have an outboard motor.
Uses sails for propulsion except in calms and for close-quarter maneuvering where power may be used.

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What is a daysailer?

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A boat without a cabin that is used for short sails or racing.

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What is a dinghy?

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A very small boat used to ferry crew and supplies.

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What is a “power-driven vessel”?

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A boat propelled by machinery. Including sailboats using auxiliary engines, whether or not they have sails up.

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What is a motorboat?

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Craft propelled by gasoline or diesel engines. A growing number are now propelled by environmentally friendly electric motors and storage batteries

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What are motorsailers?

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A hybrid between pure powerboats and sailboats. They have modest sails, but my powerful engines than auxilery sailboats.
They share the benefit of both sailing and powerboating, they are relatively inefficient in either mode.

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What are cruisers?

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Sail or power, carry some form of overnight accomodation.

If they are powerboats, they are also described by their methods of propulsion.

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What is an inboard cruiser?

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Powerboat with an inboard engine.

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What does outboard mean?

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(1) a propulsion unit for boats, attached at the transom; includes motor, drives haft, and propeller; fuel tank and battery may be integral or could be installed separately in the boat (2) outside or away from a vessel’s hull; opposite of inboard.

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What does inboard mean?

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More toward the center of a vessel; inside; a motor fitted inside the boat.

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What are the names of powerboats too small for overnight accomodation?

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Daycruisers, runabouts, or sportboats

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How do you describe houseboats?

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More house like than boatlike. Many are little more than motorized platforms with living accommodations.

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What are Housecruisers?

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A step closer in evolution to boats. Their hulls are generally better suited to higher speed and may be able to handle small waves in protected waters.

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What is a hydroplane boat?

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A racing-style powerboat that travels so fast that much of the force supporting its weight is created by air pressure rather than water pressure or buoyancy.

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What are hydrofoil boats?

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A type of boat that have hydrofoil (“water wings”) that creates lift while immersed, spring the hull above the water when high speeds are reached.
Until recently, horsepower requirements of hydrofoil boats made engines necessary, but now a few sail-powered boats are also using hydrofoils.

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What is a sailboard?

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A more common form of high speed travel under sail.
The sail on this type of craft is partially supported by the operator who streets by shifting the position of both the sail and his or her weight on the board.
Boardsailing is a popular water sport, especially among the young and physically fit.

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In what ways can a dinghy be propelled?

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By oars or by a very small motor.

21
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What is a davit?

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A swing-out device, a crane, used to hoist; a pair of davits, at the stem or at the side of the vessel, handles a dinghy or other small boat; a single davit at the now is often used to handle a heavy anchor.

22
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What is a pram?

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A small boat used as tender; a dinghy in the U.S., usually with a squared-off bow.

23
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What is a launch?

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Similar to the tender, but it suggests elegance and a length of at least 20 feet.
(1) To move a boat into the water from land. (2) a powerboat used as a ferry between land and a moored boat; also “shore boat”

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What is a Hull?

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The structural body of a vessel, not including super structure, masts or rigging.

25
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What are multihulls?

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Any of several boat designs with more than one hull, as a catamaran or trimaran.
Most are sailing craft, however specialized powerboats are sometimes built with more than one hull.

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What is a catamaran?

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A twin-hulled vessel, sail or power. The two hulls are either identical or mirror images of each other.

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What is a trimaran?

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A boat with three hulls, a larger central hull for crew accomodation and two smaller outer hulls.

28
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What are inflatable boats?

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(1) Craft that has an inflatable structure. (2) Boats usually associated with tenders of 10 feet or less but are occasionally seen 25 feet or longer.

29
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What are some pros and cons of inflatables as tenders?

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They can be delayed and stored in a small space. In this mode they can be doubled as life rafts though they lack many of the protective features that are associated with a proper life raft.

Inflatables provide greater capacity and more stability for the same length as compared to conventional tenders.
The soft contours of their inflated tubes spare the finish of the main hull when the tender is alongside. Unfortunately, they can be difficult (if not impossible) to row under windy or choppy conditions, so are usually powered with a small outboard motor.

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What primary considerations should be taken with inflatables?

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The quality of the fabric and the gluing process used in their construction.
High quality fabrics that resist abrasion and sunlight and high strength seams.

31
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For safety, what should any inflatable have?

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Two or more seperate air chambers.

If damage causes one to deflate, the boat will be kept afloat by the other, undamaged chamber.

32
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What are rigid inflatable boats or RIBs?

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A combination of inflatable and conventional boat construction.
Built with two-part hull: the lower closely resembling the bottom of a high-speed fiberglass powerboat; the upper consisting of inflated tubes. Giving both the efficient high speed performance of a conventional powerboat and the great stability of an inflatable.

33
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Life afloat is always oriented to ______, and not to _______

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Life afloat is always oriented to the boat and not to the individual members of the crew.

34
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What is port side?

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The left side of the boat.

No matter which way the observer is facing.

35
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What is starboard?

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The boats right side.

36
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Anything towards the bow is ______

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Forward

37
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Anything to the stern is _______

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Aft

38
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A position aft of an object is _____ of it

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Abaft (a landmark may be said to be “abaft the beam”

39
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What does it mean when something is abeam?

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(1) To one side of a vessel, at a right angle to the fore-and-aft line. (2) When it lies of either side of the boat at right angles to the keel.

40
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What are athwartships/meaning of athwart?

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(1) at right angles to the centerline (2)Parts of the vessel, such as seats or a swim platform, which run across the boat.

41
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Along the vessels centreline is _________

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Fore-and-aft

42
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Anything in the middle of the boat is _______

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Amidships, whether fore-and-aft or athwartships.

43
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What is the meaning of inboard?

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Towards the center.

44
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What is the meaning of outboard?

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Away from the center

45
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Going _______ refers to a person moving from the deck to a lower cabin inside the hull

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Going below refers to a person moving from the deck to a lower cabin inside the hull.

46
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Going ______ refers to a person moving from a lower cabin inside the hull to the deck

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Going above refers to a person moving from a lower cabin inside inside the hull to the deck.

47
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What is the term used for climbing the rigging and masts?

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Aloft

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