port and starboard

[slotracer]

ok i done forgot whats what.:jawdrop:

[djunkie]

Port= left Starboard= right.

[slotracer]

thanks. someone once told 4 letters in port and 4 in left. but it hell getting old:mad:

[Napanutt]

most people are right handed :star hand,right side,starboard
and the rest of us that aren't :left hand,left side,port

[RitcheyRch]

Thats the only way I remember.
thanks. someone once told 4 letters in port and 4 in left. but it hell getting old:mad:

[justfloatn]

Ok the history channel finally pays off here.
Cliff Claven here; You know its a little known fact that the term starboard originated with the Vikings. Their ships had the steer-board on the right side. With language and pronunciation changes over time it eventually became the starboard side.:D :D

[bocco]

This works for the nav lights also. All of the long words are on the same side. Left, Port and red. Right, starboard and green.

[RitcheyRch]

Thanks. That makes it easy to remember.
This works for the nav lights also. All of the long words are on the same side. Left, Port and red. Right, starboard and green.

[Badburn]

This works for the nav lights also. All of the long words are on the same side. Left, Port and red. Right, starboard and green.
Hot damn! I been wondering how to tell wich one goes where:D
I bet mine are backwards right now, are you sure about this?

[bocco]

Hot damn! I been wondering how to tell wich one goes where:D
I bet mine are backwards right now, are you sure about this?
Pretty sure. Also the part that lights is supposed to face forward.

[acatitude]

every body run outside and look at your lites, lol:confused:

[spectratoad]

thanks. someone once told 4 letters in port and 4 in left. but it hell getting old:mad:
That is how I remember it. And colors I remember by port like the wine being red. Kinda dumb of me since I am retired Navy. :D

[purrfecttremor]

It's way to early for this:D

[Boatcop]

Ok the history channel finally pays off here.
Cliff Claven here; You know its a little known fact that the term starboard originated with the Vikings. Their ships had the steer-board on the right side. With language and pronunciation changes over time it eventually became the starboard side.:D :D
Partly right, but it's origins go back to way before the Vikings.
At sea, an emergency can happen at any time, and it is vital that everything aboard can be clearly identified and described. Where ‘left’ and ‘right’ could lead to confusion, ‘port’ and ‘starboard’ are perfectly clear and unambiguous to a seafarer.
Starboard: Boats developed from simple dugout canoes. When the paddler steering a canoe is right handed (and the majority of people are right-handed), he or she naturally steers over the right-hand side (looking forward) of the boat. As canoes developed into larger vessels, the steering paddle grew larger and developed into a broad-bladed oar, held vertically in the water and permanently fixed to the side of the boat by a flexible lashing or a built-in moveable swivel.
The seagoing ships of maritime Northern Europe all featured this side-hung rudder, always on the right hand side of the ship. This rudder (in Anglo-Saxon the steorbord) was further developed in medieval times into the more familiar apparatus fixed to the sternpost, but starboard remains in the language to describe anything to the right of a ship’s centreline when viewed from aft.
Port: If starboard is the right-hand side of the vessel, looking forward from aft, the left-hand side is port – at least, it is now! In Old English, the term was bæcbord (in modern German Backbord and French bâbord), perhaps because the helmsman at the steorbord had his back to the ship’s left-hand side. This did not survive into Medieval and later English, when larboard was used. Possibly this term is derived from laddebord, meaning ‘loading side’; the side rudder (steorbord) would be vulnerable to damage if it went alongside a quay, so early ships would have been loaded (‘laded’) with the side against the quay. In time laddebord became larboard as steorbord became starboard. Even so, from an early date port was sometimes used as the opposite for starboard when giving steering orders, perhaps deriving from the loading port which was in the larboard side. However, it was only from the mid-19th century that, according to Admiral Smyth’s The Sailor’s Word Book, published in 1867, ‘the left side of the ship is called port, by Admiralty Order, in preference to larboard, as less mistakeable in sound for starboard’.

[acatitude]

It's way to early for this:D
what he said, :D , still don't know where to put my green lite

[slotracer]

green lite goes on front facing away from you:D

[suckin&pumpin]

wow maybe you should change your name to professor boatcop but seriously geat info, how did you ever get that interested to go that far?

[scottneedsaboat]

L (left) is before R (right) in the alphabet,
P (port) is before S (starboard) in the alphabet
this is the only way I have ever been able to remember it. :)

[Boatcop]

wow maybe you should change your name to professor boatcop but seriously geat info, how did you ever get that interested to go that far?
When you've spent as much time at sea as I have, over the years. That kind of stuff tends to stick with you.
:D

[nodigg]

I have always "left" the "port" behind.