OUPV COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
2026 FULLY SOLVED QUESTION SET
◉bight, bitter end, coil, eye, fake down, fid, flemish, hawser, heaving
line, marlinspike, mousing. Answer: Line terms:
____________ -- loop of line
____________ -- free end
____________ -- lay down a line in circular turns on top of each other
____________ -- closed loop in end of line
____________ -- lay out line in long, flat bights
____________ -- tapered wood tool used in splicing line
____________ -- coil a line flat on the deck
____________ -- heavy line over 5 inches (used for towing or mooring)
____________ -- light weighted line thrown across a dock
____________ -- tapered steel tool used in splicing wire
____________ -- light line across a hook to prevent pin slipping out
◉manila, nylon, polly-prop. Answer: Types of line:
____________ -- used for smaller items, usually braided, can rot, not
elastic, animals eat it
,____________ -- great strength and elasticity, resistant to weather, can
snapback, UV destroys, nothing eats it
____________ -- not as strong, lighter, floats
◉center. Answer: Where do you uncoil natural fiber line (manila)?
◉square knot, sheet bend, bowline, eye splice. Answer: What knot
do you use if you have 2 lines of the same size?
What knot do you use if you have 2 lines of unequal size?
What knot do you use if you want a temporary eye?
- Permanent eye?
◉avast, check, ease, heave around, hold, slack, surge, warp. Answer:
Terms for line handling:
__________ -- stop heaving
__________ -- hold line, ease out as necessary to keep line from parting
__________ -- maintain tension, but pay out line
__________ -- take in the line
__________ -- take turns so line won't slip
__________ -- release all strain
, __________ -- hold moderate tension, but allow it to slip
__________ -- move vessel with lines while by a dock
◉cleat. Answer: What type of deck fitting is this?
◉bitts. Answer: What type of deck fitting is this?
◉open chock. Answer: What type of deck fitting is this?
◉closed chock. Answer: What type of deck fitting is this?
◉roller chock. Answer: What type of deck fitting is this?
◉bollard. Answer: What type of deck fitting is this?
◉freeboard, draft, depth. Answer: Term for the length of the water
line to the first deck?
Term for the length of the water line to the keel?
Term for the length of keel to first deck?
2026 FULLY SOLVED QUESTION SET
◉bight, bitter end, coil, eye, fake down, fid, flemish, hawser, heaving
line, marlinspike, mousing. Answer: Line terms:
____________ -- loop of line
____________ -- free end
____________ -- lay down a line in circular turns on top of each other
____________ -- closed loop in end of line
____________ -- lay out line in long, flat bights
____________ -- tapered wood tool used in splicing line
____________ -- coil a line flat on the deck
____________ -- heavy line over 5 inches (used for towing or mooring)
____________ -- light weighted line thrown across a dock
____________ -- tapered steel tool used in splicing wire
____________ -- light line across a hook to prevent pin slipping out
◉manila, nylon, polly-prop. Answer: Types of line:
____________ -- used for smaller items, usually braided, can rot, not
elastic, animals eat it
,____________ -- great strength and elasticity, resistant to weather, can
snapback, UV destroys, nothing eats it
____________ -- not as strong, lighter, floats
◉center. Answer: Where do you uncoil natural fiber line (manila)?
◉square knot, sheet bend, bowline, eye splice. Answer: What knot
do you use if you have 2 lines of the same size?
What knot do you use if you have 2 lines of unequal size?
What knot do you use if you want a temporary eye?
- Permanent eye?
◉avast, check, ease, heave around, hold, slack, surge, warp. Answer:
Terms for line handling:
__________ -- stop heaving
__________ -- hold line, ease out as necessary to keep line from parting
__________ -- maintain tension, but pay out line
__________ -- take in the line
__________ -- take turns so line won't slip
__________ -- release all strain
, __________ -- hold moderate tension, but allow it to slip
__________ -- move vessel with lines while by a dock
◉cleat. Answer: What type of deck fitting is this?
◉bitts. Answer: What type of deck fitting is this?
◉open chock. Answer: What type of deck fitting is this?
◉closed chock. Answer: What type of deck fitting is this?
◉roller chock. Answer: What type of deck fitting is this?
◉bollard. Answer: What type of deck fitting is this?
◉freeboard, draft, depth. Answer: Term for the length of the water
line to the first deck?
Term for the length of the water line to the keel?
Term for the length of keel to first deck?
