PER Test 1, Madrid (Ministerio de Transportes) 2026

Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · Convocatoria de abril · 45 questions

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• The wheel with recesses that the chain links fit into, part of the windlass, is:
• What is the part of the propeller that turns circular motion into thrust called?
• The centreline plane (plano de crujía):
• A sheave (roldana) is:
• When anchoring:
• In bad weather we must NOT:
• If at sea you find a lifebuoy marked with name and port of registry, what is recommended?
• Sailing a leisure boat in zone 4, you must carry:
• Transverse stability is a ship’s ability to:
• In a motor boat, you want to approach a beach WITHOUT buoyed access channels. How should you proceed?
• Under MARPOL V Regulation 4, outside special areas, what applies if different types of garbage are mixed in one bag for discharge?
• Sailing at night abeam of Isla de Toralla, we see 3 green flashes on our starboard side. What type of mark would it be?
• If lit, what is the regulation colour of a safe water mark’s light?
• What is the characteristic topmark of a north cardinal mark?
• Under Rule 16, a vessel required to keep out of another’s way shall, so far as possible:
• Near the coast at night in good visibility, we see through binoculars a ship showing: a white light forward, another lower white light aft, and two red lights in a vertical line high on the mast. Under Rule 30 she is:
• Under Rule 24, what is the masthead light difference between a composite unit (pusher rigidly connected) and a vessel towing alongside, both under 50 metres?
• Under Rule 18, if a sailing vessel, a fishing vessel, a WIG craft taking off and a seaplane on the water meet at sea, which generally has priority to keep her course?
• Sailing a 20-metre yacht, you will pass an area with a traffic separation scheme. Under Rule 10, what is the right way?
• Near the coast by day in good visibility, we see through binoculars a merchant ship with a cylinder hoisted. Under Rule 28 she is:
• Under Rule 3, “vessels in sight of one another” applies:
• In a manoeuvre to moor to a buoy with no current, whenever possible:
• What is passing a line through a ring ashore and bringing the end back aboard, so the line can be slipped from deck, called?
• The feedback process once a fire has started, a series of self-sustaining chemical reactions giving heat and flammable gases, is called:
• The fetch is:
• Anticyclones in the Northern Hemisphere are characterised by wind turning:
• If on a daytime passage we keep the coast to starboard and feel a sea breeze (virazón), it will mainly come from:
• Applying the formula linking bearing, course and relative bearing, if sailing on true course S53W we take a relative bearing of 30º to port on a prominent point on the coast, what is the true bearing to that point?
• What is the total correction?
• The soundings on nautical charts are referred to:
• To update the magnetic variation of an area, in general we take into account:
• On nautical charts, what is the line joining seabed points of equal depth called?
• On 18 April 2026 at 12:30 ship’s time, while on the Punta Europa–Punta Almina opposition line, you observe a radar distance of 5 miles to Punta Carnero. Determine your true position:
• At 13:00, 3 miles NW true of Cape Spartel, you head for Punta de Gracia at 5 knots. After 5 miles you alter to Ra = 086º (deviation +1º, variation 3º E) at 5 knots. What is your position at 17:00?