Topic practice — Seamanship

Focused practice on one topic, with instant feedback after every question.

The topics

• Navigation lights (45 questions) — The navigation lights and special lights vessels show at night
• Day-shapes (21 questions) — Balls, cones, diamonds and cylinders — what is shown by day
• Flags (20 questions) — International Code of Signals flags and their meanings
• Sound signals (22 questions) — Manoeuvring signals, fog signals and other blasts
• Sailing situations (55 questions) — Who gives way to whom, with vessels lettered A–P
• Synoptic charts (23 questions) — Reading the chart: wind direction, lows, fronts and isobars
• Buoys and buoyage (31 questions) — The cardinal system, marina entrances and breakwaters
• Failing topics (110 questions) — Every question where one wrong answer fails the exam
• Anchoring and ropes (81 questions) — Anchors, mooring, springs, ropes and wire rope
• Emergencies (51 questions) — Fire, flooding, grounding, man overboard and abandoning ship