OUPV - DECK GENERAL (Marlinspike Seamanship) Quiz -

DECK GENERAL (Marlinspike Seamanship) Quiz

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

You would whip a fiber line:

a) To strengthen it

b) To protect the hands

c) It is part of a splice

d) It protects the ends from fraying

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

Line with a right hand lay should be coiled:

a) Clockwise.

b) Counter-clockwise.

c) From the inside out.

d) From the outside in.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

Wet manila line should be stowed after you:

a) Wash with salt water and stow immediately.

b) Wash with fresh water, dry and stow.

c) Dry and stow.

d) Stow immediately so air will not cause dry rot.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

When placed in a line, which of the following would be strongest?

a) Short splice

b) Long splice

c) Square knot

d) Clove hitch

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

When passing a line through a block, which of the following would pass easiest?

a) Short splice

b) Long splice

c) Eye splice

d) Marlin spike

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

You put a short splice in a line. Which of the following would be true?

a) It strengthens the line.

b) It is stronger than a knot.

c) It does not increase line diameter.

d) It is necessary to pass through a block.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

While docking your vessel you see another vessel’s lines on the bollard you need to use. What is the best procedure to use?

a) Never put two lines on the same bollard.

b) Put forward line on first, after last line.

c) Put one higher than the other.

d) Bring the eye of the second line up through the eye of the first and then over the bollard, called “dipping the eye.”

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

A “spring line” is:

a) A mooring line from a ship to a pier at a 90-degree angle to the keel.

b) A small line used as a messenger.

c) A mooring line from a ship to a pier at a 45-degree angle to the keel.

d) It is used on staging.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

Your line has parted while tied to a dock. Which is the best method of making a temporary eye in the end of a line?

a) Clove hitch

b) Becket bend

c) bowline

d) round turn and two half hitches

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

The best knot to use to make a line fast to a piling or spar is a:

a) Clove hitch

b) Square knot

c) Granny knot

d) Carrick bend

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

You have two lines of the same diameter and need to quickly join them. You would use a:

a) Short splice

b) Square knot

c) Sheepshank

d) Two bowlines

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

If you have to join two lines of different diameters, you would use a:

a) Granny knot

b) Square knot

c) Sheet or becket bend

d) Two bowlines

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

Which of the following would a figure eight knot be used for?

a) Shorten a line.

b) Join lines of equal diameter.

c) Be a stopper.

d) Keep a line from passing through a sheave.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

If a line is under strain, which type will stretch the most?

a) Manila

b) Nylon

c) Dacron

d) Polypropylene

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

What is a “chock”?

a) A metal fitting at the side of a deck to guide a line.

b) Deck fitting used to secure mooring lines.

c) System that consists of pulleys and sheaves.

d) A stopper fitting.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

Which of the following is a metal object on the pier that is used to receive mooring lines?

a) Bight.

b) Bollard.

c) Stopper.

d) Chock.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

The line that will prevent sideways motion of a vessel when it is moored to a dock is:

a) The line from the bow to the dock (bow line).

b) The line from the stern to the dock (stern line).

c) Bow spring line.

d) The lines running at right angles to the vessel (breast lines).

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

You are towing another vessel alongside. Your stern should extend aft of the two in order to:

a) Smooth out the seas before your vessel.

b) Obtain better steering control.

c) Let the bow of the two deflect floating objects from your props.

d) All of the above.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

A mooring buoy should be approached:

a) Against the wind and current.

b) With the wind and current.

c) With the wind, against the current.

d) Against the wind, with the current.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

You are anchored in calm seas. It is best to:

a) Wait for the boat to be dead in the water before letting go of the anchor.

b) Maintain slight headway while letting go of the anchor.

c) Maintain slight sternway while letting go of the anchor.

d) Let go of the anchor from the stern with the cable leading from the bow.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

Which is the best technique to stop a vessel dragging anchor?

a) Reduce the cable length.

b) Increase the scope of the cable.

c) Back the engines.

d) Swing the rudder several times to fix the anchor.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

You are towing a disabled vessel. Which is true concerning your towing line?

a) The tow line should be taut and clear of the water.

b) There should be slack in the tow line so that it dips into the water.

c) The tow line should be twice as long as the two vessels’ total length.

d) None of the above.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

The best method of towing astern is “in step”. What does this mean?

a) The towed vessel follows exactly in the wake of the towing vessel.

b) That there is no catenary in the tow line.

c) That both the towed and the towing vessel reach a wave’s crest or trough at the same time.

d) A way of towing ahead and astern at the same time.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

The danger of your vessel capsizing while towing astern would increase the closer you secure the towline to your vessel’s:

a) Bow.

b) Quarter.

c) Stern.

d) Amidships.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

You secure a towline to your stern to initiate a tow. This action will:
I. Prevent your stern from swinging properly in response to your rudders.
II. Increase maneuverability.

a) I only

b) II only

c) Both I and II

d) Neither I or II

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

If you “belay a line” you:

a) Coil it down.

b) Heave it taut.

c) Secure it to a cleat.

d) Stow it below.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

To make a permanent loop in a line you would use a:

a) Back splice

b) Short spice

c) Long splice

d) Eye splice

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

The proper anchor scope for each foot of depth under normal conditions is:

a) 1 foot.

b) 2 feet

c) 5-7 feet

d) 10 feet.

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

Which of the following would you use at the end of a heaving line?

a) Monkey’s Fist

b) Long splice

c) Short splice

d) Anchor bend

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Category: OUPV – DECK GENERAL – Marlinspike Seamanship

Which of the following would be true by putting a splice in a line?

a) A short splice weakens a line more than a long splice.

b) All splices weaken a line.

c) All splices can easily be undone.

d) Knots are better on cleats than splices because knots take up less room.

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