ASA 101 UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔bow line - ✔✔a dock line tied between the bow of a boat and a dock
✔✔broad reach - ✔✔the point of sail between a beam reach and a run
✔✔buoy - ✔✔a floating object anchored to the bottom
✔✔by the lee - ✔✔sailing on a run with the wind on the same side as the mainsail
✔✔cabin - ✔✔the interior of the boat
✔✔cam cleat - ✔✔a fitting with spring-loaded jaws used to secure a line
✔✔can buoy - ✔✔a cylindrical buoy used as an aid to navigation and indicates the Left
side of marked passage in "returning" direction
✔✔capsize - ✔✔to turn over
✔✔cast off - ✔✔to undo completely a line that had been secured
, ✔✔catamaran - ✔✔a boat with two parallel hulls
✔✔centerboard - ✔✔a board that pivots down from the bottom of the boat to provide
sideways resistance
✔✔chafe - ✔✔damage caused to a sail or a line by rubbing
✔✔Chafing Gear - ✔✔material used to prevent chafe
✔✔chainplate - ✔✔metal fabrication attached to the hull and to which a stay or shroud
is connected
✔✔channel - ✔✔a narrow passage; a deeper-water route often marked with aids to
navigation
✔✔chart - ✔✔a nautical map
✔✔chock - ✔✔a fixed fairlead through which dock lines are led
✔✔cleat - ✔✔a fitting used to secure a line under load
✔✔clew - ✔✔the aft lower corner of the sail
✔✔close-hauled - ✔✔the point of sail where a boat sails as close to the wind as
possible
✔✔close reach - ✔✔the point of sail between close-hauled and beam reach
✔✔cockpit - ✔✔the area of the boat, usually recessed into the deck, from which the
boat is steered and sailed
✔✔coil (1) - ✔✔to make up a line into tidy loops
✔✔coil (2) - ✔✔a line that has been coiled
✔✔come about - ✔✔to tack
✔✔companionway - ✔✔the entrance from the cockpit or deck to the cabin
✔✔course - ✔✔the direction in which a boat is being steered
✔✔cringle - ✔✔an eye made by setting a rope or metal ring into (for example) a sail
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔bow line - ✔✔a dock line tied between the bow of a boat and a dock
✔✔broad reach - ✔✔the point of sail between a beam reach and a run
✔✔buoy - ✔✔a floating object anchored to the bottom
✔✔by the lee - ✔✔sailing on a run with the wind on the same side as the mainsail
✔✔cabin - ✔✔the interior of the boat
✔✔cam cleat - ✔✔a fitting with spring-loaded jaws used to secure a line
✔✔can buoy - ✔✔a cylindrical buoy used as an aid to navigation and indicates the Left
side of marked passage in "returning" direction
✔✔capsize - ✔✔to turn over
✔✔cast off - ✔✔to undo completely a line that had been secured
, ✔✔catamaran - ✔✔a boat with two parallel hulls
✔✔centerboard - ✔✔a board that pivots down from the bottom of the boat to provide
sideways resistance
✔✔chafe - ✔✔damage caused to a sail or a line by rubbing
✔✔Chafing Gear - ✔✔material used to prevent chafe
✔✔chainplate - ✔✔metal fabrication attached to the hull and to which a stay or shroud
is connected
✔✔channel - ✔✔a narrow passage; a deeper-water route often marked with aids to
navigation
✔✔chart - ✔✔a nautical map
✔✔chock - ✔✔a fixed fairlead through which dock lines are led
✔✔cleat - ✔✔a fitting used to secure a line under load
✔✔clew - ✔✔the aft lower corner of the sail
✔✔close-hauled - ✔✔the point of sail where a boat sails as close to the wind as
possible
✔✔close reach - ✔✔the point of sail between close-hauled and beam reach
✔✔cockpit - ✔✔the area of the boat, usually recessed into the deck, from which the
boat is steered and sailed
✔✔coil (1) - ✔✔to make up a line into tidy loops
✔✔coil (2) - ✔✔a line that has been coiled
✔✔come about - ✔✔to tack
✔✔companionway - ✔✔the entrance from the cockpit or deck to the cabin
✔✔course - ✔✔the direction in which a boat is being steered
✔✔cringle - ✔✔an eye made by setting a rope or metal ring into (for example) a sail
