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DECK GENERAL (Boat Handling) Quiz

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

One of the following statements is accurate concerning vessel stability. The accurate statement is:

a) It cannot be changed after construction.

b) Increased freeboard increases stability.

c) Free shifting weights onboard decreases stability.

d) Decrease in draft increases stability.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

Which statement is accurate regarding a “tender” vessel that rolls slowly and sluggishly?

a) It has been loaded so as to be top heavy.

b) Concentration of weight is towards the bottom.

c) It is overly stable.

d) Weight should be removed from the keel area.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

You are approaching a dock with your vessel. If possible, you should:

a) Go in with the wind and tide.

b) Approach at 90-degree angle and swing to.

c) Go in against the wind and tide.

d) Approach stern first to maintain control.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

If a water tank, which is below the vessel’s center of gravity, is filled with sea water, the affect would be:

a) Stability increases, draft decreases

b) Stability decreases, draft increases

c) Stability and draft increases

d) Stability and draft decreases

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

You are driving your vessel in a following sea. The tendency of the vessel would be to:

a) Pitch

b) Roll

c) Reduce Speed

d) Yaw

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

You can control your vessel’s yawing in a following sea by:

a) Decreasing speed.

b) Shifting weight astern.

c) Towing a small sea anchor.

d) Any of the above.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

A wedge of water that builds up between the head of a barge and the bank is called:

a) Bank cushion

b) Bank suction

c) Bow wave

d) Veering cushion

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

Your engines are stopped and your vessel is hove to in heavy seas. What is the best method to prevent broaching?

a) Alternate shifting of rudder.

b) Lash the helm.

c) Shift weight to the stern.

d) Use a sea anchor.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

Which of the following could be used to construct an emergency sea anchor?

a) A bucket.

b) An air tank filled with water.

c) Weighted blankets, oars and canvas.

d) Any of the above.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

Yawing can be reduced or controlled by:

a) Increase speed.

b) Shift weight to the stern.

c) Shift weight to the bow.

d) None of the above will help.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

A temporary repair to a hull leak can be done by:

a) Parbuckling.

b) Seizine.

c) Caulking.

d) Parcelling.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

Which of the following would not reduce yawing of a tow?

a) Moving deck loads aft.

b) Trimming by the bow.

c) Drogues put over the stern.

d) Changing the hawser length.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

The visibility of lights would be affected most by:

a) Temperature of the air

b) Meteorological conditions

c) Cloud cover

d) Sea conditions

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

A United States Coast Guard patrol boat approaches your vessel with a “heave to” command. What does this mean?

a) Throw a heaving line.

b) Prepare to receive a heaving line.

c) Heave cooler over the side.

d) Stop your vessel.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

What is the beam of a vessel?

a) The width of the vessel.

b) Depth between the decks.

c) Molded depth of the vessel.

d) Length from stem to stern.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

The term “displacement” of a vessel refers to the:

a) Gross tonnage of a vessel.

b) Carrying capacity of a vessel.

c) Cubic capacity of a vessel.

d) The weight of water a vessel displaces.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

Where is a vessel’s quarter located?

a) Dead ahead.

b) Abeam.

c) Just forward of the beam on either side.

d) On either side of the stern.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

Your vessel could capsize most easily in which situation?

a) Running into head seas.

b) Running with the seas.

c) Running in the trough.

d) Anchored with your bow into the seas.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

A single screw vessel is more difficult to maneuver than a twin-screw vessel because a twin-screw vessel:

a) Generates more power.

b) Can turn without using the rudder.

c) Permits the rudder to move faster.

d) Can move water away from the rudder.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

While in rough weather and heading into the sea you realize that you have too much weight forward. Your small vessel could:

a) Broach.

b) Plunge into the wave.

c) Rise rapidly over the wave.

d) List.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

You are in a narrow channel passing another vessel port to port. What should you expect your vessel to do as your bow approaches the screw(s) of the other vessel?

a) Your speed will increase significantly.

b) Your draft will decrease significantly.

c) Your bow will shear towards the other vessel.

d) Your bow will shear away from the other vessel.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

Steering control of your vessel can be kept best under normal conditions when the vessel has:

a) Sternway.

b) Headway.

c) No way on with engines full ahead.

d) No way on with engines stopped.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

In relation to the turning circle of a ship, “advance” means the distance:

a) Gained in the direction of the original course.

b) Gained at right angles to the original course.

c) Lost in the direction of the original course.

d) Lost in the opposite direction of the original course.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

Your single screw vessel is in a narrow channel. What effect would “bank suction” have?

a) It pulls the stern towards the bank.

b) It pulls the whole vessel away from the bank.

c) It pulls the bow towards the bank.

d) It heels the vessel toward the bank.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

You are operating a twin-screw vessel and lose your port engine. You continue using your starboard engine only. Which action would you take to steer your vessel ahead in a straight line?

a) Compensate with right rudder

b) Compensate with left rudder

c) Surge the starboard engine

d) No compensation is necessary

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

You are in a following sea. How could you reduce yawing?

a) Increase the center of gravity

b) Shift weights to the bow

c) Shift weights to the stern

d) Pump out tanks aft

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

Where is the pivot point of a vessel going ahead?

a) Near the stern.

b) About 1/3 the vessel’s length from the bow

c) About 1/3 the vessel’s length from the stern

d) None of the above.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

When your vessel’s propeller makes one revolution, the forward movement is measured by:

a) The pitch

b) Advance

c) Transfer

d) Head reach

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

The “lee side” of a vessel is:

a) The side of the vessel exposed to the wind.

b) The side of the vessel sheltered from the wind.

c) Starboard side.

d) Port side.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Boat Handling

Working a vessel into a slip is best done:

a) With a cross current.

b) With a cross wind.

c) With slack water.

d) With a current setting against your vessel.

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