Rules, Lights and Sounds Flashcards
The navigation light that combines sidelights and stern light at the top of the mast is called the:
Anchor light
Tricolor light
360° light
Offshore light
Tricolor light
The tricolor light combines sidelights and sternlight, and can be used when sailing (not motoring) at night or low visibility. Ref: BCME p109
The arc covered by a steaming light on a sailboat under power is:
112.5 degrees
225 degrees
235 degrees
125 degrees
225 degrees
The masthead light is also called the steaming light; it’s a white light and covers an arc of 225 degrees. Ref: CCME p91
While sailing in fog, you hear a prolonged 5 second blast on a horn, what is your response?
Continue your course, you are stand on vessel
Start your engine and turn away from the sound
Listen carefully for another sound
Continue sounding 1 prolonged, 2 short blasts and pay extra vigilance
Continue sounding 1 prolonged, 2 short blasts and pay extra vigilance
The signal for a sailing vessel in fog is 1 prolonged blast followed by 2 short blasts. A prolonged 5 second blast indicates a power vessel underway in fog. Ref: CCME p 90, BCME p 109.
Upon hearing 5 short blasts from another boat close by in restricted visibility, you should:
Immediately respond with 5 short blasts
Turn to port and acknowledge the boat
Engage reverse and stop your boat
Look around and assess your best course of action
Look around and assess your best course of action
5 short blasts indicates an emergency condition, so look around quickly and assess the situation and your best course of action. Ref CCME p89
While you are motoring down a channel, an approaching boat, dead ahead, sounds 1 short blast. What should you do?
Nothing, he intends to pass to your port side
Sound 2 short blasts to acknowledge his intention
Change course to pass starboard to starboard
Sound 1 short blast and alter course to starboard so that you will clearly pass the boat on your port side
Sound 1 short blast and alter course to starboard so that you will clearly pass the boat on your port side
1 short blast indicates a vessel intends to leave you to port. Your should respond with 1 short blast, altering course to starboard to pass port to port. Ref: BCME p 107
When sailing at night, you sight a boat with a green over white light. What is it?
A tug towing a barge
A vessel engaged in trawling
A pilot boat underway
A vessel aground
A vessel engaged in trawling
A vessel engaged in trawling displays a green light above the steaming light, as well as the navigation lights. Sail-ing boats must give way. Ref: CCME p 87, BCME p 109.
Why should you not leave your tricolor on when your steaming light is illuminated?
It uses more power
You appear like a fishing vessel
You appear like a power vessel
You appear like a vessel in distress
You appear like a fishing vessel
A steaming light must be above the navigation lights. A tricolor light is above the steaming light; using that com-bination makes you appear like a fishing or trawling vessel. Ref: BCME p 109
When sailing at night, you see a single white light, which then changes to a single red light. Which statement is correct?
You are the stand-on boat, you should stay your course
You are on a collision course with a power boat
You are the overtaking boat, you must give way
You are the windward boat, you should give way
You are the overtaking boat, you must give way
A single white light is the stern light. If it changes to a single red light, that means you are overtaking a sailing vessel on her port side. Overtaking vessels must give way. Ref: CCME p 84-91
While motoring past the marina, you hear 3 short blasts from another boat. What does this mean?
A boat is backing away from the dock
Nothing, there is no such recognized signal
The boat is not under command, keep clear until the boat has passed
You should stop and wait for the all clear signal
A boat is backing away from the dock
3 short blasts indicates a vessel is operating astern propulsion. In a marina, that would mean a boat backing away from the dock. Ref: BCME p 107
Underway at night, you see red and green lights, and two white lights one above the other. What does this mean?
A tug and tow dead ahead
A vessel at anchor
A power vessel crossing your bow from port to starboard
An approaching vessel of more than 50 meters dead ahead
An approaching vessel of more than 50 meters dead ahead (picture in question)
A power vessel dead ahead shows red and green sidelights, plus a steaming light above. A vessel over 50 meters shows a second white steaming light above and aft of the first. Ref: CCME p91
You are crossing a Traffic Separation Scheme in a sailboat. Which is correct?
Sailboats are prohibited from crossing
Only cross under power
Cross at right angles, as quickly as possible
Only cross after permission is granted by the Separation Scheme Controller
Cross at right angles, as quickly as possible
Avoid crossing a Traffic Separation Scheme. If you must cross, do so quickly, as close to a right angle as possible, and do not impede traffic in the TSS. Ref: CCME p86
You are under sail on a starboard tack and realize that a collision with a port tack boat is imminent. What is your appropriate action?
Take whatever action is necessary to avoid a collision
Maintain course and speed regardless of the other boat’s actions
Maintain that you have “right of way” and stand on
Tack immediately and keep to leeward of the other vessel
Take whatever action is necessary to avoid a collision
While you may be stand-on as starboard tack, if a collision is imminent you are required by Rule #2 to take what-ever action is necessary to avoid the collision. Ref: CCME p 84.
You are motor sailing and a sport-fishing boat is crossing from your starboard side. What should you do?
Stand-on, you have sails up
Give way and turn hard to port
Give way early and turn to cross behind the sport-fisher
Sound 5 short blasts
Give way early and turn to cross behind the sport-fisher
A motor-sailing vessel is a power vessel, and must follow the rules as a power vessel. In this case, Rule 15 says to give way to the vessel to starboard, and cross behind. Ref: CCME p86
