ALWAYS CRUZIN Posted August 2, 2019 #1 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Which side of the ship is PORT & STARBOARD? Referencing the bow or the front of the ship. The PORT side of the SHIP is the LEFT side of the SHIP. PORT has 4 letters just like the word LEFT. Easy to remember. STARBOARD is simply the right side of the SHIP and just the opposite of PORT. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkjretired Posted August 3, 2019 #2 Share Posted August 3, 2019 My learning port and starboard was easy, from the time I was a kid I used to play and watch a lot of baseball. The announcers used to call left hand pitchers with different terms invoking the word port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare puppycanducruise Posted August 3, 2019 #3 Share Posted August 3, 2019 36 minutes ago, dkjretired said: My learning port and starboard was easy, from the time I was a kid I used to play and watch a lot of baseball. The announcers used to call left hand pitchers with different terms invoking the word port. I remember hearing announcers refer to left handed pitchers as "south paws". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkjretired Posted August 3, 2019 #4 Share Posted August 3, 2019 1 hour ago, puppycanducruise said: I remember hearing announcers refer to left handed pitchers as "south paws". That too, I grew up in the 50s in Northern NJ and listened to the very colorful announcers for the Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers and NY Giants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trex827 Posted August 4, 2019 #5 Share Posted August 4, 2019 Join the Navy! LOLSent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUT2407 Posted August 5, 2019 #6 Share Posted August 5, 2019 And Port side has a red light, because Port (wine) is red. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike981 Posted August 5, 2019 #7 Share Posted August 5, 2019 On boats (fishing) the steering wheel is on the right side (sometimes in the center) because of the rotation of the propeller. So if you think of the captain/person driving the boat as the star, the starboard side is on the right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denmarks Posted August 5, 2019 #8 Share Posted August 5, 2019 The terms are usually stated "port and starboard". I rarely hear "starboard and port". Since we read left to right just associate the terms the way they are read, left-port and right-starboard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagsfan Posted August 5, 2019 #9 Share Posted August 5, 2019 My father felt there were three important things to teach me. One was port and starboard, one was forward and aft, and one I didn’t learn till I was 15. Let out the clutch in a car meant put your foot down on it. I got the nautical terms easily as a small child. I really struggled with understanding the clutch as a teenager. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icon901 Posted August 5, 2019 #10 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Alphabetical Order.. P comes before S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navybankerteacher Posted August 6, 2019 #11 Share Posted August 6, 2019 6 hours ago, Icon901 said: Alphabetical Order.. P comes before S ... and? Perhaps you you meant to add “L comes before S”? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icon901 Posted August 6, 2019 #12 Share Posted August 6, 2019 (edited) 11 hours ago, navybankerteacher said: ... and? Perhaps you you meant to add “L comes before S”? LOL What? No. P comes before S in the alphabet. Port < > Starboard Should make sense to anyone but speakers of languages like Arabic & Hebrew 😉 Edited August 6, 2019 by Icon901 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruzaholic41 Posted August 6, 2019 #13 Share Posted August 6, 2019 7 minutes ago, Icon901 said: LOL What? No. P comes before S in the alphabet. Port < > Starboard Should make sense to anyone but speakers of languages like Arabic & Hebrew 😉 Don’t worry. Most of us got it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navybankerteacher Posted August 6, 2019 #14 Share Posted August 6, 2019 4 hours ago, Icon901 said: LOL What? No. P comes before S in the alphabet. Port < > Starboard Should make sense to anyone but speakers of languages like Arabic & Hebrew 😉 If you are referring to reading left to right while facing the bow ow the ship, that might make sense. But reading lift to right as you face the stern of the ship (which sometimes happens) starboard would come before port. So, in addition to readers of Arabic and Hebrew, you should add people who sometimes walk aft on a ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icon901 Posted August 6, 2019 #15 Share Posted August 6, 2019 (edited) 52 minutes ago, navybankerteacher said: If you are referring to reading left to right while facing the bow ow the ship, that might make sense. But reading lift to right as you face the stern of the ship (which sometimes happens) starboard would come before port. So, in addition to readers of Arabic and Hebrew, you should add people who sometimes walk aft on a ship. I figured common sense would dictate that this, like the original post, was using the front of the ship as a reference point. Apparently I needed to clarify that for some folks. 😄 Sorry about that. This is assuming the front of the ship was the standard reference point. Edited August 6, 2019 by Icon901 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navybankerteacher Posted August 6, 2019 #16 Share Posted August 6, 2019 23 hours ago, Icon901 said: Alphabetical Order.. P comes before S No clarification needed. Pepper ALWAYS comes before salt, just as I comes before Q. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icon901 Posted August 6, 2019 #17 Share Posted August 6, 2019 1 minute ago, navybankerteacher said: No clarification needed. ...and yet, I still had to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navybankerteacher Posted August 6, 2019 #18 Share Posted August 6, 2019 23 hours ago, Icon901 said: Alphabetical Order.. P comes before S Yes, it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALWAYS CRUZIN Posted August 6, 2019 Author #19 Share Posted August 6, 2019 5 hours ago, Icon901 said: LOL What? No. P comes before S in the alphabet. Port < > Starboard Should make sense to anyone but speakers of languages like Arabic & Hebrew 😉 You must have missed my first thread and then I did a second one on this simple bit of information. I go nailed left and right. No pun intended. It got so bad I had Cruise critic remove one and then the other. Now I just did the Port and Starboard and sill stupid information. Why can't people just leave dumb remarks to them selves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldubs Posted August 6, 2019 #20 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Seems simple enough. Port side is the larboard side. 😉 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruzaholic41 Posted August 6, 2019 #21 Share Posted August 6, 2019 2 hours ago, twodaywonder said: You must have missed my first thread and then I did a second one on this simple bit of information. I go nailed left and right. No pun intended. It got so bad I had Cruise critic remove one and then the other. Now I just did the Port and Starboard and sill stupid information. Why can't people just leave dumb remarks to them selves? If you can’t handle a little back-and-forth banter, perhaps you shouldn’t start threads with unsolicited advice. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare c-boy Posted August 7, 2019 #22 Share Posted August 7, 2019 18 hours ago, ldubs said: Seems simple enough. Port side is the larboard side. 😉 .... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldubs Posted August 7, 2019 #23 Share Posted August 7, 2019 21 hours ago, twodaywonder said: You must have missed my first thread and then I did a second one on this simple bit of information. I go nailed left and right. No pun intended. It got so bad I had Cruise critic remove one and then the other. Now I just did the Port and Starboard and sill stupid information. Why can't people just leave dumb remarks to them selves? I think many posts are just intended as good natured comments, not to be taken personally at all. Nature of forums is you will always have unnecessarily snarky/critical comments. I've previously heard of the rule of thumb you shared and it is a pretty good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALWAYS CRUZIN Posted August 7, 2019 Author #24 Share Posted August 7, 2019 33 minutes ago, ldubs said: I think many posts are just intended as good natured comments, not to be taken personally at all. Nature of forums is you will always have unnecessarily snarky/critical comments. I've previously heard of the rule of thumb you shared and it is a pretty good one. I certainly appreciate that. Thank you😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimnbigd Posted August 8, 2019 #25 Share Posted August 8, 2019 (edited) And to remember "bow" (rhymes with cow) -- We bow to the captain, who most often is at the front of the ship. (Of course we don't actually bow to him/her, but this is how I remember it.) And if we are naughty, we might be taken to the back of the ship for a "stern" lecture. (Stern is more often called "aft" now, but aft is fairly intuitive -- "after"). Edited August 8, 2019 by Jimnbigd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now