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Length Classes - Correct Answers ✅Class A (smallest) Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 (largest) Length Class A - Correct Answers ✅Less than 16 feet Length Class 1 - Correct Answers ✅16 feet to less than 26 feet Length Class 2 - Correct Answers ✅26 feet to less than 40 feet Length Class 3 - Correct Answers ✅40 feet to less than 65 feet What are the 2 things listed on a Capacity Plate - Correct Answers ✅1- capacity in pounds or number of people 2 - recommended maximum horsepower What are the 3 things you must do when fueling a boat? - Correct Answers ✅1. Keep the nozzle in contact with the tank opening
- Fill the tank slowly and avoid spilling
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- Never fill to the brim Which way does bad weather usually come from? - Correct Answers ✅West Buoy Colors (red and black) and directions - Correct Answers ✅all red or all black - channel markers Red with white - if heading East or West, go South Red with white - if heading North or South, go West Black with white- if heading East or West, go North Black with white- if heading North or South, go East What is the minimum age to take the commercial boating test? - Correct Answers ✅18 (16 to take the safe boater's course) When the boat is in operation, all passengers must be in the boat and not in these places - Correct Answers ✅Not on the gunnels, transom or straddling the bow Where is the safest place to load a boat with people? - Correct Answers ✅In the middle, it should not be loaded on a trailer
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How do most deaths occur from boating? - Correct Answers ✅From falling overboard Where in the boat do you always bring a person in from the water? - Correct Answers ✅Stern What is the risk to the body if you fall in cold water? - Correct Answers ✅Hypothermia What is affixed to the boat and used to tie off the boat with? - Correct Answers ✅The cleat What are the bow and stern light colors? - Correct Answers ✅Bow: red and green Stern: white What are the terms for the front, back, right and left of the boat? - Correct Answers ✅Port - Left Starboard - Right Bow - Front Stern - Back
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What are the important things to consider when buying a PFD? - Correct Answers ✅Coast Guard Approved and the correct size (weight and chest size) How many type 1 PFD's are required per person on a commercial vessel? - Correct Answers ✅1 per person True or False: If you have passengers under 12, they must wear a PFD - Correct Answers ✅True How many short blasts on an air horn signals an emergency? - Correct Answers ✅5 short blasts How long should an anchor line be? - Correct Answers ✅7- times the depth in feet How much galvanized chain should be attached to an anchor? - Correct Answers ✅7-8 feet What are the three types of anchors? - Correct Answers ✅Fluke, Plow, Mushroom
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What is the term of what can trap a small vessel against the face of a dam and cause it to be pulled under water? - Correct Answers ✅A boil or back roller, aka a strong recirculating current How far do you need to stay away from a dive flag? - Correct Answers ✅150 feet In a typical boating fatality, lifejackets are _______ but not ______. - Correct Answers ✅Present but not Worn What is the proper acronym for making a rescue of someone in trouble in the water? - Correct Answers ✅Reach, Throw, Row and then Go What is the best advice to give someone who capsizes in a boat? - Correct Answers ✅Stay with the boat When passing under a bridge, what speed to you maintain? - Correct Answers ✅Headway
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If your boat wake causes damage on a body of water, who is responsible? - Correct Answers ✅The skipper/captain of the boat What happens when 2 sail boats approach each other? - Correct Answers ✅Wind is on starboard, stand on, wind is on port, give way Leeward vessel stand on, Windward vessel gives way starboard = stand on If you allow someone to use your PWC, what is the most important thing to let them know? - Correct Answers ✅You cannot steer when the PWC is turned off or idling What needs to be on a vessel under 16 feet? (sound safety device)
- Correct Answers ✅A hand, mouth or power whistle (needs a bell if it's over 26 ft) What is the most important thing to check when you are hooking the trailer to the vehicle? - Correct Answers ✅The coupler size must match the ball (otherwise is could unlatch when you hit a bump)
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number of people = vessel length (ft) x vessel width (ft) divided by 15 What do you need to do if you have an exhaust blower? - Correct Answers ✅Make sure you run it for at least 4 minutes before you start the engine What should you do before you start your engine for safety? - Correct Answers ✅Sniff the bilge and engine compartment for fumes, consider installing a vapor detector and alarm Percentage of Trailer Tongue Weight - Correct Answers ✅Tongue weight is the amount of the loaded trailer's weight that presses down on the towing hitch the tongue weight should be about 10% of the combined weight of the vessel and trailer (gross trailer weight or GTW) if it's too light, it will swing from side to side if it's too heavy, the real wheels with be weighted down making it difficult to stear Give way and stand on vessels - Correct Answers ✅give way - the vessel that is required to take early and substantial action to keep
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well away from other vessels by stopping, slowing down, or changing course. stand on - vessel that must maintain its course and speed unless it becomes apparent that the give way vessel is not taking appropriate action Power vs. Power boat - Correct Answers ✅head on: neither is stand on, both go starboard and use one sound signal to share plans crossing paths: if the other vessel is on your port, stand on, if the other vessel is on your starboard, give way overtaking: if you're overtaking, give way, if you're being overtaken, stand on - 2 horns is intent to pass on the vessels starboard side, 1 horn is intent to pass on the vessels port side Power vs. Sail boat - Correct Answers ✅head on: if you are in power boat, give way and signal the other, if you are the sailboat, stand on crossing paths: if you are the power boat, give way, if you are the sailboat, stand on overtaking: if you are being overtaken, stand on, if you are overtaking, give way and use sound signals
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Encountering other vessels at night - Correct Answers ✅you see red, green and white: approaching another power vessel head-on, both must give way you only see white: overtaking another vessel or it's anchored, it's always the stand-on vessel, you can go around it on either side you see green and white: you are the stand on vessel, but remain alert and be ready if the other vessel does not see you or give way you see red and white: must give way, either turn right or slow and allow the vessel to pass you see only green or only red: approaching a sailboat, you must always give way regardless of the direction/light yellow lights: commercial vessels towing or pushing a barge, signals the length of the barge and can be unlit for several hundred yards Colors and numbers of Bouys - Correct Answers ✅Red colors, red lights, even numbers: mark the edge of the channel on your starboard side as you enter the open sea or go upstream Green colors, green lights and odd numbers: mark the edge of the channel on your port side as you enter the open sea or head upstream Red and green colors/lights - placed at the junction of two channels - if green is on top, the preferred channel is to the left
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Yellow symbols - park intracoastal waterway local channels Orange stripes and markings - non-lateral, navigation aids that give information other than the edges of safe water areas Blue strip - mooring buoy Proper anchoring techniques - Correct Answers ✅sandy or muddy bottom never anchor from the stern, can make the boat swamp well protected area with adequate water depth 7-8ft of chain attached to anchor anchor line should be 7-10x the depth of the water where you are setting anchor fluke and plow are good for most boats, mushroom should only be used for small canoes/rowboats/small sailboats What happens when you approach Dams, locks and bridges? - Correct Answers ✅wait at least 400 feet away from the lock for a signal to enter alert the attendant that you wish to go through the lock, contact them via Channel 13 on VHF proceed slowly and wait for attendant to instruct you to enter and exit
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Vessel's certificate of registration and decal - Correct Answers ✅must be on board and available for inspection whenever the vessel is operated. Must have a certificate of registration and validation decals to operate a vessel on public waters if it's over 12 feet. expires on December 31 of each year, must alert DMV within 15 days if you change address or if it's lost/stolen or sold. Must register in NH if operated there for more than 30 days Hull ID numbers - Correct Answers ✅block letters, reading from left to right on both sides of the vessel in contrasting color to hull background. Must beon both sides of the bow within six inches of and to the right of the number sailboats betwwen 12-20 feet need to display the validation decals only within 2 feet of the extreme forward part of the bow Who may operate a vessel - Correct Answers ✅Less than 25 horsepower - anyone ski craft - 16 or older with safe boater license more than 25 horsepower - under 16 if with someone 18 with a certificate, or 16 and up alone with a certificate
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Alcohol and drug use while boating - Correct Answers ✅.08% BAC or .03-08% if there is other evidence convicted of a BWI will lose privilege to operate a vessel, have BWI conviction on driving record, receive fine, have drivers license revoked By driving a boat on NH waters, you have consented to a sobriety test if requested by law enforcement, refusal results in a separate offense PFD's - Correct Answers ✅When you MUST wear one:
- 12 and younger
- operator of a ski craft
- each person being towed behind a vessel All vessels must carry one wearable for each person on board 16ft or longer must have one type IV on board Type I - offshore lifejackets, rigid orange, will turn unconscious people over Type II - near-shore vests, less rigid orange, slightly less supportive than type I
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any recreational vehicle with installed toilets must have a marine sanitation device all waters in new hampshire are no discharge areas Dehydration on the water - Correct Answers ✅boating day causes your body to generate a lot of heat, body is also exerting a lot of energy to adjust to changing positions/movement increased heat = more sweating increased sweating = dehydration if fluids are not replaced dehydration = more fatigued and more at risk for a boating accident you should drink some water every 15-20 minutes signs: dry mouth, sleepiness, irritability, weakness, dizziness, headache Reach, Throw, Row and then go - Correct Answers ✅Reach - extend a fishing rod, oar, or something to reach out to the victim Throw - throw the victim a PFD or anything that will float Row - row to the victim and use an oar or paddle to pull the victim to the stern Go - without training, go get help
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How to minimize risk of drowning - Correct Answers ✅Wear PFDs What causes boating accidents? - Correct Answers ✅10% equipment 15% environment 75% human error passengers fall overboard and many boats capsize - those cause over half of all boating fatalities Hypothermia - Correct Answers ✅cold shock in 3-5 minutes short-term swim failure in 3-30 minutes long term immersion after 30 minutes post immersion collapse the colder the water, greater the chance of death try and control your breathing first, then perform the most important functions first before you lose dexterity symptoms: shivering, slurred speech, blue lips, loss of feeling in extremities, cold and blue skin, confusion, dizziness, unconsciousness, coma or death
