ASA 101 CORE EXAMINATION 2026 SET QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Depower - ✔✔to release the power from the sails by allowing them to luff or making
them flatter. This is done to reduce heel.
✔✔Dinghy - ✔✔a small sailboat or rowboat.
✔✔Displacement - ✔✔the weight of a boat; therefore the amount of water it displaces.
✔✔Dock - ✔✔1. the wooden structure where a boat may be tied up. 2. the act of
bringing the boat to rest alongside the structure.
✔✔Dockline - ✔✔a line used to secure the boat to the dock.
✔✔Downhaul - ✔✔a line used to pull down on the movable gooseneck on some boats
to tighten the luff of the mainsail. The Cunningham has the same function on other
boats.
✔✔Downwind - ✔✔away from the direction of the wind.
✔✔Draft - ✔✔the depth of a boat's keel from the water's surface.
, ✔✔Driver - ✔✔the person responsible for steering the boat.
✔✔Ease - ✔✔to let out a line or sail.
✔✔Ebb - ✔✔an outgoing current.
✔✔Engine cut-off switch - ✔✔emergency button or switch that stops the outboard.
✔✔Fairlead - ✔✔a fitting that guides a jib sheet or other lines back to the cockpit or
along the deck.
✔✔Fairway - ✔✔a channel.
✔✔Fake - ✔✔to lay out a line on deck using large loops to keep it from becoming
tangled.
✔✔Fall off - ✔✔see head down.
✔✔Fast - ✔✔secured.
✔✔Fathom - ✔✔a measurement of the depth of water. One fathom equals six feet.
✔✔Fender - ✔✔a rubber bumper used to protect a boat by keeping it from hitting a
dock.
✔✔Fend off - ✔✔push off.
✔✔Fetch - ✔✔a course on which a boat can make its destination without having to tack.
✔✔Fitting - ✔✔a piece of nautical hardware.
✔✔Figure-8 knot - ✔✔a knot designed to act as a stopper in the end of a line that takes
the form of an eight.
✔✔Figure-8 rescue - ✔✔a maneuver used to return to a person or object in the water.
✔✔Float Plan - ✔✔a brief description of your intended boating activity that is left with a
trusted friend, family member, or sailing club office. It should include the vessel's name
and description, names of persons onboard, destination, planned time of return, and cell
phone number on board.
✔✔Flood - ✔✔an incoming current.
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Depower - ✔✔to release the power from the sails by allowing them to luff or making
them flatter. This is done to reduce heel.
✔✔Dinghy - ✔✔a small sailboat or rowboat.
✔✔Displacement - ✔✔the weight of a boat; therefore the amount of water it displaces.
✔✔Dock - ✔✔1. the wooden structure where a boat may be tied up. 2. the act of
bringing the boat to rest alongside the structure.
✔✔Dockline - ✔✔a line used to secure the boat to the dock.
✔✔Downhaul - ✔✔a line used to pull down on the movable gooseneck on some boats
to tighten the luff of the mainsail. The Cunningham has the same function on other
boats.
✔✔Downwind - ✔✔away from the direction of the wind.
✔✔Draft - ✔✔the depth of a boat's keel from the water's surface.
, ✔✔Driver - ✔✔the person responsible for steering the boat.
✔✔Ease - ✔✔to let out a line or sail.
✔✔Ebb - ✔✔an outgoing current.
✔✔Engine cut-off switch - ✔✔emergency button or switch that stops the outboard.
✔✔Fairlead - ✔✔a fitting that guides a jib sheet or other lines back to the cockpit or
along the deck.
✔✔Fairway - ✔✔a channel.
✔✔Fake - ✔✔to lay out a line on deck using large loops to keep it from becoming
tangled.
✔✔Fall off - ✔✔see head down.
✔✔Fast - ✔✔secured.
✔✔Fathom - ✔✔a measurement of the depth of water. One fathom equals six feet.
✔✔Fender - ✔✔a rubber bumper used to protect a boat by keeping it from hitting a
dock.
✔✔Fend off - ✔✔push off.
✔✔Fetch - ✔✔a course on which a boat can make its destination without having to tack.
✔✔Fitting - ✔✔a piece of nautical hardware.
✔✔Figure-8 knot - ✔✔a knot designed to act as a stopper in the end of a line that takes
the form of an eight.
✔✔Figure-8 rescue - ✔✔a maneuver used to return to a person or object in the water.
✔✔Float Plan - ✔✔a brief description of your intended boating activity that is left with a
trusted friend, family member, or sailing club office. It should include the vessel's name
and description, names of persons onboard, destination, planned time of return, and cell
phone number on board.
✔✔Flood - ✔✔an incoming current.
