Show:
Safety
Boats
Marlinspike Seamanship
Sea Scout Ideals and History
Navigation
100

This type of pfd includes throwable ring buoys or square pad, and is not meant to be worn.

What is a Type IV pfd?

100

The general term used for anchors, cables, warps, springs, etc. for securing a vessel at anchor.

What is a "Ground Tackle"?

100
The "king of knots," a knot unable to be jammed, and able to be used while dropped over a cleat, bitt, or piling or formed around a mooring ring.
What is a Bowline?
100
When boarding a sea scout vessel or landship, this is saluted first to represent reverence to God.
What is the mast?
100
This is a floating object anchored to the bottom.
What is a buoy?
200

This is used to extinguish electrical fires

What is Class C fire extinguisher?

200
A boat on this type of tack has the right-of-way.
What is Starboard Tack?
200
This is the sailor's art of joining 2 ropes together without a knot, intertwining each strand with one of the other rope.
What is Splicing?
200
This hand is used in the typical scout handshake.
What is the left hand?
200
The lines on longitude, going from the North pole to the South pole all around the earth.
What are Meridians?
300

The first rule if caught in heavy weather.

What is the crew knows location and uses of safety gear?

300
A line running from the top of the mast to the stern of the boat.
What is a Backstay?
300
This knot is used to prevent the end of a fall from running through the large swallow of a cargo block.
What is a Stevedore's Knot?
300
The second point of the sea promise is "to know the location and proper use of these on every boat I board."
What are lifesaving devices?
300
This is the range at which a light can be seen in current conditions, discounting the curvature of the earth.
What is the Luminous Range?
400

This class of fire involves flammable liquids such as gasoline, oil, grease, tar, oil-based paint, lacquer, and flammable gas.

What is Class B Fire?

400
This rowing maneuver includes placing the blades in the water, ready to pull.
What is to Catch?
400
A heavy leather half-glove worn over the hand, used in canvas work and sail repair. This has a lead casting sewn in, and this is used to push the needle through the canvas or rope.
What is a palm?
400
This is the usually monthly meeting of youth leaders, done apart from the ship meeting.
What is a Quarterdeck meeting?
400
The first is the change on a compass from true to magnetic North, and the second is from ferrous materials on the boat.
What are Variation and Deviation?
500

A "buoyant vest" used to float a person in an upright, slightly backward position.

What is a Type II Personal Flotation Devise (PFD)?

500
The Docking Order meaning that deckhands are to pull on the line named, taking a turn on the cleat or bitt but allowing it to slip
What is "Take a Strain?"
500
Tackle consisting of one single and one double block.
What is Luff Tackle?
500
This man, the brother of Lord Baden-Powell, wrote the first sea scout manual.
Who is Warington Baden-Powell?
500
One of the 2 other names for Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
What is Coordinated Universal Time or Zulu Time?