ASA 101 - Sailing Made Easy - Terms, Sails, Sail Controls, Points of Sail NEWEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW!!

ASA 101 - Sailing Made Easy - Terms,
Sails, Sail Controls, Points of Sail


Hull
The watertight structural shell of a ship.


Deck
The commonly horizontal floor that encloses the pinnacle of the hull.


Cockpit
The place of the boat, generally recessed into the deck, from which the boat is suggested
and sailed


Transom
The flat floor that closes the hull on the stern


Bow
The forward part of the boat


Stern
The aft a part of the boat


Rudder
The movable appendage attached to a ship under the water and with which it could be
instructed


Helm
The tiller or wheel with which the boat is recommended


Stanchion
A metallic post that helps lifelines


Lifeline

, A wire supported on stanchions around the perimeter of the deck to prevent crew from falling
overboard


Pulpit
A guardrail at the bow or stern of a ship to which the lifelines are linked


Mast
(Rig) A constant vertical spar that holds up a sail or sails


Boom
(Rig) The spar that supports the foot of the mainsail


Gooseneck
(Rig) An articulated fitting that connects a increase to a mast


Spreader
(Rig) An athwartships strut on a mast that holds a shroud away from the mast


Shroud
(Rig) A twine that gives athwartships assist to the mast


Headstay/Forestay
(Rig) The live between the top of the mast and the bow


Backstay
(Rig) A cord help from the pinnacle of the mast to the stern


Mainsail
(Rig) The sail connected to the aft side of the mainmast


Headsail/Jib/Genoa
(Rig) A sail set ahead of the forwardmost mast


Halyard
(Rig) A line used to raise and lower a sail