Terminology
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100
This term is used for an anchor line or cable.
What is the rode.
100
Edward Teach was the birth name for which pirate.
Who is Blackbeard.
100
Name the three ships in Columbus' flotilla.
What are the Nina, the Pinta and the Sa ra Maria.
100
Name the pirate in the novel Trasure Island.
Who is Long John Silver.
100
Which code flag is used to protest a foul by an opponent.
What is B.
200
Name for national or organizational flags flown aboard a vessel.
What are ensigns, pennants or burgers.
200
Name of the 1st officer who led the mutinies o the HMS Bounty.
Who is Fletcher Christian.
200
Which Cunard liner now serves as a dockside hotel in Long Beach, California.
What is the Queen Mary?
200
Author of The Old Man and the Sea.
Who is Ernest Hemingway.
200
The standard penalty for breaking the right-of-way rule during a race is to perform this turn.
What is 720 degrees.
300
Term used for lines used to hoist sails.
What are halyards.
300
Name of the captain of the Titanic.
Who is Edward J Smith.
300
Name the oldest, still commissioned US warship.
What is the USS Constitution.
300
Name the vessel in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
What is the Nautilus.
300
Color of the standard protest flag.
What is red.
400
Name for the vertical partition separating a vessel's compartments.
What is a bulkhead.
400
The Americas were named after this explorer.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
400
Name the famous racing schooner pictured on the back of the Canadian dime.
What is the Bluenose.
400
In Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, this lake is referred to by its Indian name Gitche Gumee.
What is Lake Superior.
400
Name of the international organization governing world class racing.
What is the IYRU - International Yacht Racing Union.
500
Term for the spar to which the foot of the mainsail is attached.
What is the boom.
500
Name the American naval hero who said "I have not yet begun to fight".
Who is John Paul Jones.
500
In 1839 Africans captured for slavery revolted and commandeered this vessel.
What is the Amistad.
500
Name the vessel lost at sea in the novel The Perfect Storm.
What is the Andrea Gail.
500
Name for the act of faking an opponent by acting as if tacking but staying on course.
What is a false tack.
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