Seamanship Quiz
1. If you get a jammed riding turn on your sheet winch, what is best way to sort it out?
  • Tie a short line to the sheet with a rolling hitch and lead the line to another winch
  • Have one person stand on the sheet forward of the winch and another pull up on the sheet at the winch
  • Use a marlin spike to loosen the jammed turn on the winch
2. With the typical right hand prop, which way should you turn for the shortest turning radius?
  • Port
  • Starboard
  • Does not matter
3. What does if mean if a vessel is approaching you at night and is showing three vertical white lights?
  • They are fishing
  • They are restricted in ability to maneuver
  • They are towing, with a tow length longer than 200m
4. When approaching a mooring buoy with wind against tide you should . . .
  • Approach it downwind with only the jib flying
  • Approach it upwind with only the main flying
  • Approach it on a beam reach with both sails flying
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Only the voyager perceives the poignant loveliness of life, for he alone has tasted of its contrasts. He has experienced the immense and wild expansion of the spirit outward bound, and the contracted heartburn of the homecoming. He has explored the two infinities – the external universe – and himself.

Rockwell Kent, Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan