Boater Safety Vocabulary

4. To remove water by scooping out with a bucket.
5. Right side of a vessel.
9. This effect is when the towed person can swing really wide depending on the boat’s speed and turning radius.
11. Over the side or out of the vessel.
14. Front of a vessel.
16. Device used to pump and force water under pressure through a steering nozzle at the rear of the vessel.

1. Rear of a vessel.
2. To roll up tightly and make it secure.
3. To turn on the side or turn completely over.
6. Color of the light on the port side.
7. Waves that a vessel leaves behind as it moves through the water.
8. Steering device is usually a vertical blade attached to a post at, or near, the stern of the boat.
9. Left side of a vessel.
10. To keep a vessel in place by setting anchor or tying the vessel to a fixed object or buoy.
12. Every kind of watercraft capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, including sea planes.
13. Interior of the hull below the floorboards. Is the lowest part of the vessel’s interior.
15. Color of the light on the starboard side.