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a whistle or a horn

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Three short blasts means you are operating in reverse. One prolonged blast followed by 3 short blasts means boat under tow in redcued visibility conditions.

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Keep clear of stand on boats

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the state of visibility

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You are about to be passed and should maintain course and speed

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Orange smoke blowing from the boat.

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In Indiana, an exhaust muffler is required to be installed on a recreational use boat.

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A flotation device for every person

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The primary purpose of the Navigation Rules for boating is to prevent collisions and accidents on the water.

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The color scheme of a Mooring buoy is white with a horizontal blue stripe. These buoys are for securing boats without an anchor.

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Most boating accidents occur when the weather is calm and clear and winds are light. The main cause of boating accidents is human error.

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60 Days

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An oar, a boat, and a body of water large enough to go boating on.

and do not forget two arms

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Should be right around 65 pounds

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A trimaran

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Not in the least. The starboard navigation light is green and many decks are painted green.

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In rowing a long narrow boat is called a shell. This can be either an 8+, a 4+, 4, a double, and a single.

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Equal

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Yes, but it does depend on the skill of the skier and to some extent the design of the water skis.

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The US Navy doesn't (and didn't) like small combatants in their inventory; especially wooden ones, like the WWII PT Boats. Close to 300 of those boats were intentionally destroyed (burned) in the Philippines at the close of the war. Wooden boats are a maintenance headache; wood rots, and the maintenance inventory of the US Navy was designed & organized to support steel vessels, not wood.

Secondly, the USN distains small boat combatants. Small boats are necessary for taxing personnel from vessel to vessel and conducting errands in bays, etc. But not the combatants. Combatants such as the WWII MTB (Motor Torpedo Boats-aka PT boats); and the USN's Brown Water Navy in Vietnam, which utilized a host of riverine craft such as the Swift Boats (PCF-Patrol Craft Fast), PBRs (Patrol Boat River), Alpha Boats (ASPB-Assault Support Patrol Boats), and the Monitors were only a "wartime necessity." And all save some PBRs and two Swift Boats were retained in the US (and the Swift Boats were salvaged from scrap yards by some veterans!).

There is no money in small combatants when defense budgets are rationed out to the military. The big money is in "big ticket items" such as warships for the navy, bombers for the air force and tanks for the army. That's where the big money is justified. The army, navy and air force fight for their share of the defense budget each year that it's being offered.

Only lately, since Operation Iraqi Freedom began it's campaign, and then only late in the game, has the US Navy become interested again in small patrol boats. So far, probably no more than a hundred such combatants have been placed into service with the USN. These are not the PTs & Swifts of days gone by, but in some cases inflatibles, and civilian appearing water craft painted up in military schemes. There is no more official Brown Water Navy, just some small patrolling in troubles regions over-seas. Coronado in California is training them, as they did during the Vietnam war; Mare Island used to used old Viet War PBRs (those were all fiberglass), but the Mare Island closed down in '95, and tranferred what they had left to Sacramento. Sacramento is surrounded by rivers.

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well I am nine years old and hey why do you look so dull? oh I am sorry but we have to make things brighter! why they throw them is because it is like you are having a party because you got money and cargo. this is my first time doing this so I hope I helped

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Buoyancy
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The 1977 model, Evinrude 15 hp outboard engine, requires a 50:1 ratio. This is one pint of 2 cycle oil, to six gallons of fuel, or 2.5 - 3 oz. of oil per gallon of gasoline.