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Vessel Safety Check
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100

Front of the boat

What is the bow?

100

You can have tea at the Empress Hotel if moored at the Inner Harbor of this city.

What is Victoria?

100

  Must be Coast Guard approved, in good serviceable condition, and easily accessible.

What are Personal Flotation Devices?

100

Returning from sea, these color lights indicate the left side of the channel.

What is Green?

100

If you are trained, do this if someone is not breathing.

What is CPR?

200

The tiller or wheel, related to steering.

What is the helm?

200

To have dinner and drinks at Poet's Cove, you'll need to visit this island

What is Pender Island?

200

Required on gasoline engines in closed compartments.

What is proper ventilation?

200


What is a bowline knot?

200

Core temperature above 105 degrees, altered mental state, rapid heart rate, low blood pressure, life threatening

What is heat stroke?

300

Fitting, usually with two projecting horns, to which lines are made fast.

What is a cleat?

300

You will go through this waterway if you leave Genoa Bay and want to head north on the west side of Salt Spring Island.  

What is the Sansum Narrows?

300

These are required if operating between sunset and sunrise and in conditions of reduced visibility.

What are navigation lights?

300

Captains are required to do whatever is necessary to avoid this.

What is a collision?

300

RICES

What is Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation, Stabilization?

400

Line for hoisting sails or flags

What is a halyard?

400

Telegraph Harbor Marina is on this island.

What is Thetis Island?

400

Number of fire extinguishers required on a vessel between 26' and 40' with no fixed system installed.

What is two B-1 or one B-2?

400

You are a 28' powerboat entering a fog bank. After slowing to a safe speed you should make this sound signal.

What is 1 prolonged blast every 2 minutes?

400

Yawning, sighing, dry mouth or salivating, drowsiness, headache, dizziness, lethargy, nausea or vomiting

What is seasickness?

500

The point on an anchor where the shank joins the arms.

What is the crown?

500

The closest moorage if you want to have a summer swim in Black Lake.

What is Roscoe Bay?

500

Boats greater than 39.4 ft in length require this sound producing device.

What is a bell?

500

A vessel showing red and green side lights with two white lights above in a vertical line.

What is a vessel towing or pushing ahead.

500

Sustained, uncontrollable shivering, alert but may show subtle changes in mental status

What is hypothermia?