Boaters Safety - Practice Exam

A boat's capacity plate gives the maximum weight and/or number of people the boat can carry safely in certain weather conditions. What are these conditions? rainy weather weather with winds up to 76 knots weather with winds up to 154 knots good weather - Answer- good weather You file a float plan for a weekend trip. Which of these should be included in the plan? your boat's horsepower rating onboard location of food and cooking utensils names and addresses of your passengers chart showing planing speed vs. fuel use - Answer- names and addresses of your passengers What should you do with your float plan for a weekend water outing? Mail it to your home address. Stow it with the boat's registration papers. Fax it to the nearest U.S. Coast Guard station. Leave it with a friend or relative. - Answer- Leave it with a friend or relative. Where should portable gasoline fuel tanks be filled? in the boat's cabin in the boat's cockpit on the dock on the gunwale - Answer- on the dock Which fueling practice is safe? fueling your boat at night when it is cooler filling portable fuel tanks on the fuel dock turning on the boat's ventilation system while fueling opening all windows, ports, doors, and other openings before fueling - Answer- filling portable fuel tanks on the fuel dock What factor determines a boat's required equipment? storage capacity rate of speed fuel tank