SET
USCG AUXILIARY BOAT CREW STUDY SET WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE
ANSWERS
4.3.1 Port Sidelight - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Red; 112.5 deg
4.3.2 Starboard Sidelight - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Green; 112.5
deg
4.3.3 Stern Light - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ White; 135 deg
4.3.4 Masthead/Steaming Light - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ White;
225 deg (above the sidelights)
,4.3.5 Anchor Light - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ White; 360 degrees
4.3.6 Small Boat Combination Light - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔
Red, Green, and White light; 360 degrees
4.3.7 State when boats are required to display navigational lights -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 1. Between sunrise and sunset
2. Any time there is limited visability
4.4.1 Identified Short Blast and its duration - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ About 1 second
4.4.2 Identified Prolonged Blast and its duration - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ About 4-6 seconds
4.4.3 Identified the danger signal and when its used - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ 5 short blasts; Danger/Don't Understand
4.5.1 Name six of the 17 accepted maritime distress signals -
ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 1. Mayday radio broadcast
2. Signaling mirror
3. Signal whistle
4. November code flag over Charlie code flag
5. Continuous fog horn
, 6. SOS - Morse code
7. Gun fired at 1 minute intervals
8. High-intensity white flashing light
9. Red parachute flare
Astern Propulsion Signal - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ 3 Short Blasts
Leaving the Dock/Entering Main Channel (Inland) - ACCURATE
ANSWERS✔✔ 1 Prolonged
3.1.1a Double braided - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Two hollow
braided line with a core of single laid. Always synthetic.
3.1.1b Three strand - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Twisted from three
lines of three twisted strands of yarn
3.1.2c Natural fiber - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Low strength
- Low stretch
- Not load-bearing in the Coast Guard
- Susceptible to rot
3.1.2b Nylon - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Strong
- High stretch