NJ Boating Practice Exam Questions
and Answers (2026) | Study Guide
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• When should your navigation lights be on? -✓✓Sunset to Sunrise or during the day if
visibility is ristricted
• When is it legal to tow someone on a wakeboard or tube? -✓✓Sunrise to Sunset
• Is it legal to operate your boat by the launch ramp? -✓✓Yes, you have to go at slow
speed no wake
• Where is the best place to transfer gera from your vehicle to your boat before
launching -✓✓away from the boat ramp.Preparation should be done away from the
ramp
• Can you legally pass an emergency vessel with their lights on? -✓✓Yes, but you must
go at a slow rate no wake speed
• How fast should you go in a lagoon or narrow channel? -✓✓Slow speed
• Is it legal to operate at a slow speed inside of a marked exclusion area?(diamond with
a cross) -✓✓NEVER GO IN THIS AREA
• what is the distance you should be from any military or service vessel? -✓✓500 yards
• If you are within 500 yards of a military vessel how fast should you be going? -
✓✓Slow,no wake speed
• If you are within 100 yards of a military vessel, what should you do? -✓✓Be stopped
• If you are operating at a fast speed how far must you be from a marina,pier,wharf,or
dock? -✓✓200 feet
• When you are closer than 200 feet away from a marina,pier,wharf,or dock how fast
should you go? -✓✓No wake speed, slow
• Before you leave the dock what should you look at -✓✓Nautical chart
• What is a Nautical chart -✓✓Contains information such as water depths and the
locations of channel, sand bars, rocks, and vegetation. Prevents from running aground.
, • How can you prevent running aground -✓✓Nautical chart
• Who is responsible for avoiding collisions -✓✓EVERYONE
• When two boats are approaching head on what should they do? -✓✓Each boat must
give way to the right to pass
• Another boat is approaching your boat from your starboard side, what do you do? -
✓✓You must stop, slow down, change direction(you are the give-way vessel)
• When you are underway and a sailboat is passing you, what must you do? -
✓✓Maintain course and speed as the sailboat must give-way
• True or False:If you are overtaking another boat, you must give way -✓✓True
• What is the primary factor that will affect boat speed? -✓✓Visibility
• Caught in the fog, what do you do? -✓✓Slow down, turn on navigation lights, be
prepared to take action to avoid collision
• Red bouys:even or odd numbers -✓✓Even
• Green bouys:even or odd numbers -✓✓odd
• Purpous of markers? -✓✓Identify edges of safe water, the potential for running
aground outside them is very high
• Running aground, what must you FIRST do? -✓✓Make sure everyone is okay, give
assistance
• What should you do after you run aground? -✓✓Check if everyone is okay, check for
leaks, turn the engine off, shift weight in the boat forward, raise the engine and push
yourself using a boat hook or an ore
• Must you register boat every year? -✓✓Yes
• Where are validation decals placed -✓✓Next to the registration numbers on both
sides of the bow of the boat
• Where are registration numbers located on the boat -✓✓Both sides fo the BOW of the
boat
and Answers (2026) | Study Guide
Pack | Accurate Solutions | A+
• When should your navigation lights be on? -✓✓Sunset to Sunrise or during the day if
visibility is ristricted
• When is it legal to tow someone on a wakeboard or tube? -✓✓Sunrise to Sunset
• Is it legal to operate your boat by the launch ramp? -✓✓Yes, you have to go at slow
speed no wake
• Where is the best place to transfer gera from your vehicle to your boat before
launching -✓✓away from the boat ramp.Preparation should be done away from the
ramp
• Can you legally pass an emergency vessel with their lights on? -✓✓Yes, but you must
go at a slow rate no wake speed
• How fast should you go in a lagoon or narrow channel? -✓✓Slow speed
• Is it legal to operate at a slow speed inside of a marked exclusion area?(diamond with
a cross) -✓✓NEVER GO IN THIS AREA
• what is the distance you should be from any military or service vessel? -✓✓500 yards
• If you are within 500 yards of a military vessel how fast should you be going? -
✓✓Slow,no wake speed
• If you are within 100 yards of a military vessel, what should you do? -✓✓Be stopped
• If you are operating at a fast speed how far must you be from a marina,pier,wharf,or
dock? -✓✓200 feet
• When you are closer than 200 feet away from a marina,pier,wharf,or dock how fast
should you go? -✓✓No wake speed, slow
• Before you leave the dock what should you look at -✓✓Nautical chart
• What is a Nautical chart -✓✓Contains information such as water depths and the
locations of channel, sand bars, rocks, and vegetation. Prevents from running aground.
, • How can you prevent running aground -✓✓Nautical chart
• Who is responsible for avoiding collisions -✓✓EVERYONE
• When two boats are approaching head on what should they do? -✓✓Each boat must
give way to the right to pass
• Another boat is approaching your boat from your starboard side, what do you do? -
✓✓You must stop, slow down, change direction(you are the give-way vessel)
• When you are underway and a sailboat is passing you, what must you do? -
✓✓Maintain course and speed as the sailboat must give-way
• True or False:If you are overtaking another boat, you must give way -✓✓True
• What is the primary factor that will affect boat speed? -✓✓Visibility
• Caught in the fog, what do you do? -✓✓Slow down, turn on navigation lights, be
prepared to take action to avoid collision
• Red bouys:even or odd numbers -✓✓Even
• Green bouys:even or odd numbers -✓✓odd
• Purpous of markers? -✓✓Identify edges of safe water, the potential for running
aground outside them is very high
• Running aground, what must you FIRST do? -✓✓Make sure everyone is okay, give
assistance
• What should you do after you run aground? -✓✓Check if everyone is okay, check for
leaks, turn the engine off, shift weight in the boat forward, raise the engine and push
yourself using a boat hook or an ore
• Must you register boat every year? -✓✓Yes
• Where are validation decals placed -✓✓Next to the registration numbers on both
sides of the bow of the boat
• Where are registration numbers located on the boat -✓✓Both sides fo the BOW of the
boat
