ASA 101 Practice Questions with Correct Answers

ASA 101 Practice Questions with Correct
Answers
Airfoil

An object designed to take advantage of the energy of the wind by deflecting or bending the

wind without greatly disturbing it's flow.

No-Sail Zone

45 degrees on either side of the direction the wind is coming from.

Close-Hauled

At either edge of the no-sale zone (sails hauled close to the boats centerline)

Reaching

Zone where the wind is coming across the boat.

3 Reaching Zones

Close Reach, Beam Reach, Broad Reach

Beam Reaching

Boat sailing 90 degrees to the wind.

Close Reaching

As course gets closer to close-hauled from beam reaching.

Broad Reaching

Boats heading is past beam reaching closer to downwind.

Running

, Sailing downwind.

Apparent Wind

A combination of the true wind and the wind that you create by virtue of your own motion

through the air.

True Wind

The wind you feel standing still.

Which wind governs how a boat sails?

Apparent wind.

Hull

Watertight floating body of the boat that gives it form.

Keelboat

Sailboat with a keel

Keel

A fixed appendage on the bottom of the hull that revises the sideways resistance needed to

counter the force of the wind on the sails.

Ballast

Carried in the keel; a weight which counteracts the force ofnthe wind that causes a sailboat to

heel.

Heel

Lean over