Things Boat Captains Need to Know
Across
- 1. Front of a boat
- 3. Ship’s detailed logbook entries
- 5. Safe operating capacity, measured in weight
- 6. Device used for navigation and location
- 9. Emergency procedure to abandon ship
- 10. Captain’s steering area
- 11. Boat right-of-way guidelines
- 14. Sudden storm at sea
- 15. Floating navigational aid
- 16. International distress signal (dots and dashes)
- 17. When boat moves uncontrollably off course
- 20. Light used to signal distress
- 22. Measurement of water depth
- 23. Green channel marker shape
- 25. Device used to lift anchor
- 27. Large anchor rope
- 28. Keeping watch overnight
- 30. Instrument to detect objects underwater
- 32. Direction opposite of windward
- 33. Area for safely entering a harbor
- 35. Process of determining boat’s location
- 36. Method of securing boat to dock
Down
- 1. Action of throwing unwanted water out of boat
- 2. Instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure
- 4. Metal fitting to tie ropes on deck
- 7. Flag signaling alphabet system
- 8. Protective barrier around deck edge
- 10. Condition of boat tilting sideways
- 12. To steer toward the wind
- 13. Rising and falling of ocean level
- 16. Dangerously shallow area
- 18. Nautical maps
- 19. Boat’s stopping point, often overnight
- 21. Device used to steer a boat
- 24. Left side of a boat
- 26. Rear end of a boat
- 29. Speed measurement at sea
- 31. Device used to communicate at sea
- 34. A strong rope used onboard