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Common terms and phrases
alcohol anchor ashore avoid bilge blower boat boat's boaters bodies of water bottom buoy Capacity Plate capsize channel Class Coast Guard approval daybeacons device direction displacement boat downwind engine feet fire extinguisher fishing FLOAT PLAN fuel gasoline Give-way Vessel green gunwales GVWR hull hypothermia inboard jacket jet bikes judgement keep a Proper least Lou Ritter mainsail motor moving navaids Navigation Rules NavRegs Nina nozzle operator outboard Overtaken PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICES port portable fire extinguisher pounds of buoyancy Power-driven Vessel preserver Proper Look-out pull radiotelephone Restricted Visibility Risk of Collision river rode Safe Speed sailboat Sailing Vessel Seamanship short blast skier slow small boats small open boat Stand-on Vessel starboard starboard side stay steering stern swim tank throwable trailer transom trolling for fish turn U.S. COAST GUARD underway victim Visual Distress Signals Water Skiing waves weather weight wind