NJ BOATING UPDATED TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Where should red markers be? - ✔✔On your starboard side (RED, RIGHT,
RETURNING) coming back from the open sea
✔✔When do red marker numbers increase? - ✔✔As you are returning upstream from
open water
✔✔When should green markers be on your starboard side? - ✔✔When traveling
towards open water
✔✔When should red markers be on your starboard side? - ✔✔When returning from
open water
✔✔Whats the 3 responsibilities of every boater? - ✔✔1. Practice good seamanship
2. keep a proper lookout
3.maintain a safe speed
✔✔What are the two basic types of boat hulls? - ✔✔Displacement and planning
✔✔What are the common navigation lights? - ✔✔Side lights ( RED port GREEN
starboard)
Stern light:behind the vessel
Masthead light:shines forward and to both sides
All round white light: serves as an anchor light when side lights are not working
✔✔When must a power driven vessel give way to - ✔✔1. Any vessel not under
command
2. Any vessel restricted in ability to move
3. a vessel engaged in fishing
4.a sailing vessel unless it is overtaking
, ✔✔When must a sailing vessel give way to? - ✔✔1. Any vessel not under command
2. Any vessel restricted in ability to move
3. A vessel engaged in fishing
✔✔Where is the bow? - ✔✔Front of the boat
✔✔Where is the stern? - ✔✔back of the boat
✔✔A capacity plate shows the: - ✔✔Maximum horsepower and weight allowed
✔✔What is the minimum height of the state registration numbers that are displayed on a
boat - ✔✔3"
✔✔If a boat transfers ownership, is destroyed, lost, stolen or recovered, the owner must
notify the agency which issued the certificate within this many days: - ✔✔15
✔✔On a federally documented boat, it must have this number permanently affixed in a
block type Arabic numerals not less than 3" - ✔✔Official number
✔✔This legal proof of state registration is required to be on a boat whenever it is
underway - ✔✔Certificate of number
✔✔Motorized boats must be registered how - ✔✔In the state of principal use
✔✔A backfire flame arrestor is attached to the air intake of a inboard gasoline engine
and is designed to: - ✔✔SUPPRESS FLAMES
✔✔Whch one of the following boats is required to have a fire extinguisher on board: -
✔✔Personal watercraft (PWC)
✔✔Which of the following boats is required to have a type IV (throwable) personal
flotation device on board under USCG regulations? - ✔✔16' bass boat
✔✔Which of the following is a U.S. Coast guard approved type visual signaling device?
- ✔✔electric distress signal light
✔✔All boats less than 39.4 feet in length, must legally carry this item in order to
communicate with other boats - ✔✔A effecient means of producing a sound signal
✔✔A U.S. coast guard approved installed fire extinguishing system replaces this many
portable B-1 fire extinguishers? - ✔✔1
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Where should red markers be? - ✔✔On your starboard side (RED, RIGHT,
RETURNING) coming back from the open sea
✔✔When do red marker numbers increase? - ✔✔As you are returning upstream from
open water
✔✔When should green markers be on your starboard side? - ✔✔When traveling
towards open water
✔✔When should red markers be on your starboard side? - ✔✔When returning from
open water
✔✔Whats the 3 responsibilities of every boater? - ✔✔1. Practice good seamanship
2. keep a proper lookout
3.maintain a safe speed
✔✔What are the two basic types of boat hulls? - ✔✔Displacement and planning
✔✔What are the common navigation lights? - ✔✔Side lights ( RED port GREEN
starboard)
Stern light:behind the vessel
Masthead light:shines forward and to both sides
All round white light: serves as an anchor light when side lights are not working
✔✔When must a power driven vessel give way to - ✔✔1. Any vessel not under
command
2. Any vessel restricted in ability to move
3. a vessel engaged in fishing
4.a sailing vessel unless it is overtaking
, ✔✔When must a sailing vessel give way to? - ✔✔1. Any vessel not under command
2. Any vessel restricted in ability to move
3. A vessel engaged in fishing
✔✔Where is the bow? - ✔✔Front of the boat
✔✔Where is the stern? - ✔✔back of the boat
✔✔A capacity plate shows the: - ✔✔Maximum horsepower and weight allowed
✔✔What is the minimum height of the state registration numbers that are displayed on a
boat - ✔✔3"
✔✔If a boat transfers ownership, is destroyed, lost, stolen or recovered, the owner must
notify the agency which issued the certificate within this many days: - ✔✔15
✔✔On a federally documented boat, it must have this number permanently affixed in a
block type Arabic numerals not less than 3" - ✔✔Official number
✔✔This legal proof of state registration is required to be on a boat whenever it is
underway - ✔✔Certificate of number
✔✔Motorized boats must be registered how - ✔✔In the state of principal use
✔✔A backfire flame arrestor is attached to the air intake of a inboard gasoline engine
and is designed to: - ✔✔SUPPRESS FLAMES
✔✔Whch one of the following boats is required to have a fire extinguisher on board: -
✔✔Personal watercraft (PWC)
✔✔Which of the following boats is required to have a type IV (throwable) personal
flotation device on board under USCG regulations? - ✔✔16' bass boat
✔✔Which of the following is a U.S. Coast guard approved type visual signaling device?
- ✔✔electric distress signal light
✔✔All boats less than 39.4 feet in length, must legally carry this item in order to
communicate with other boats - ✔✔A effecient means of producing a sound signal
✔✔A U.S. coast guard approved installed fire extinguishing system replaces this many
portable B-1 fire extinguishers? - ✔✔1
