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¿Qué significa capear el temporal?What does heaving to mean?
Show the answer
Correct answer: a) Keeping the sea on the bow with little way in heavy weather.
Why it is correct
Heaving to is keeping the sea on the bow with little way, but steerage.
Why the others are not
- b) Needs steerage.
- c) That is running.
- d) Not the manoeuvre.
How to work it out in the exam
- Heave to: bow to sea, little way.
Where this question comes from
- Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · 2022 · Convocatoria de abril · PER Test 1 · question 7 Official paper · Official answer key
- Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · 2022 · Convocatoria de abril · PER Test 2 · question 10 Official paper · Official answer key
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