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WALL OF FAME:
Top scores:
NameQuestionsCorrectScore
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ernie 201890%
Tim 201785%
Craig 201575%
Robert 201575%

1. INTERNATIONAL ONLY If you sighted three red lights in a vertical line on another vessel at night, it would be a vessel __________.

aground
constrained by her draft
dredging
moored over a wreck

2. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND If two sailing vessels are running free with the wind on the same side, which one must keep clear of the other?

The one with the wind closest abeam
The one to windward
The one to leeward
The one that sounds the first whistle signal

3. INLAND ONLY You are overtaking another power-driven vessel in a narrow channel, and you wish to overtake on the other vessel's port side. You will sound a whistle signal of __________.

one short blast
two short blasts
two prolonged blasts followed by one short blast
two prolonged blasts followed by two short blasts

4. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND A vessel engaged in fishing underway sounds the same fog signal as a __________.

power-driven vessel stopped and making no way through the water
vessel being towed
vessel restricted in her ability to maneuver at anchor
sailing vessel at anchor

5. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND At night you sight a vessel displaying a single green light. This is a __________.

vessel at anchor
small motorboat underway
vessel drifting
sailing vessel

6. INLAND ONLY A power-driven vessel crossing a river on the Western Rivers has the right of way over __________.

vessels ascending the river
vessels descending the river
all vessels ascending and descending the river
None of the above

7. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND What is the minimum vessel length which must show two white masthead lights, one forward and one aft, when underway at night?

7 meters
20 meters
50 meters
100 meters

8. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND You are approaching another vessel at night. You can see both red and green sidelights and, above the level of the sidelights, three white lights in a vertical line. The vessel may be __________.

not under command
towing a tow more than 200 meters astern
trawling
underway and dredging

9. BOTH INTERNATIONAL & INLAND A power-driven vessel underway shall keep out of the way of a vessel __________.

not under command
restricted in her ability to maneuver
engaged in fishing
All of the above

10. INTERNATIONAL ONLY The light which may be used with a vessel's whistle is to be __________.

used when the whistle is broken
used prior to sounding the whistle
used only at night
a white light