Let's Get Quizzical Week 2

What colour light would you expect to find on this mark?

Alternating blue and yellow lights

Blue flashing light

Yellow light

No light

Nautical charts that show the most detail of a small area, such as a port or internal waterway, are ____ scale charts

Small

Coastal

Scalene

Large

On leaving a port, would you keep this mark to your left or to your right?

To your left

To your right

Depends on whether there is another buoy near it

To the south

A map of the sea bed and shoreline, used for marine navigation, is known as a _____.

Atlas

Water map

Nautical chart

Aeronautical chart

Where on your track are you if you see these leading lights?

I am to the right of track

I am exactly right on track

I am to the left of track

Lost!

What colour and sequence would you expect to find with these navigation marks?

Red flashing light

Two quick white flashes

Red and white isophase flashing

2 long flashes every 6 seconds

The range of a tide is the________.

Distance the tide moves out from the shore.

Maximum depth of the water at high tide.

Difference between the heights of high and low tide

Depth of water at low tide

If you lose forward motion from being in the no sail zone, you are where?

Up the creek without a paddle

In irons

Aground and should back the jib until the keel is loose

Sailing in the groove

Your sailboat is being overtaken by a powerboat. What is the situation?

You are the stand on vessel.

Sailboats always have the right of way over powerboats.

You should strike the colors.

You are the give way vessel.

Vertical clearances, such as bridges, will always be shown on tidal area charts measured at what?

Low tide

A height designated by the Coast Guard equal to the median clearance at high tide divided by the median clearance at low tide and multiplied by two.

Sea level

Mean high water

Ships and airplanes use which type of compass?

Magnetic compass

Pressurised compass

Gyroscopic compass

Gate compass

For the sake of maintaining uniformity in buoyage system worldwide, IALA divided the world into two regions

International and European

Regions A and B

Northern and Southern Hemisphere

Covid and Non-Covid Countries

A storm warning forcast is issued if the average windspeed is expected to be at least....

48 knots

38 knots

55 knots

35 knots

What do the blue lines on this chart mean?

Areas of equal height

VHF channels to be used in this area

Underwater mountain range

Areas of equal depth

What does a white light over a red light indicate?

Fishing boat

At anchor

Towing boat

Pilot onboard

What does the symbol surrounded by dotted lines with PA next to it mean?

Partially submerged wreck where part of it can be seen above the water.

Wreck, least depth known obtained by sounding

Wreck at which the masts only are visible at low tide

Wreckage which may show part of the wreck through the surface of the water. Its position is approximate.

What colour and sequence is the light for this buoy?

Yellow lights, any rhythm not used for other lights

Yellow light quick flash

White light, any rhythm not used for other lights

No light

Where would you find this mark?

Port side of channel

Starboard side of channel

Entrance to a channel

Marking a preferred channel

How high is Fastnet Lighthouse?

27 metres

28 metres

49 metres

14 metres

What is this cardinal mark telling you?

Safe water is to the East

Safe water all around

Safe water is to the North

Safe water is to the West

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