Port and starboard click very easily with me and make perfect sense, but I'll admit my brain cells misfire once in a while on which is red and green. I think my brain gets confused with "Red Right Return" (in the US anyway) but port/left is a red nav light. I always have to mumble, port is a red wine, port and left have the same number of letters...
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Mr. JW. Exactly my point. Non boaters might refer to left and right and that is determined by which direction you're facing.
Which probably has never happened in the history of the world. Its like being beside a river and asking if we're on the left bank or right bank. How many will say it depends which way youre facing? Maybe a 10 year old kid.
Which probably has never happened in the history of the world. Its like being beside a river and asking if we're on the left bank or right bank. How many will say it depends which way youre facing? Maybe a 10 year old kid.
Ask your new crew/guest to go down the forward stairs of your newly converted fish/tug boat, go back through the ER and get the tool you want thats in the box on the left. Which side is it on?
One thing the Western River terminology helps a bit to clear up things are terms like "left descending bank.'
All you need to say is....left bank, the convention is to face downriver, same as to face forward on a boat.
Just to show you how manufacturers get into the deck naming bidness, the area under my hardtop where the helm is ostentatiously named the Bridge Deck. It is actually the motor cover which is hinged at the forward end. At the aft end of the motor box where you step down about 6-8 inches onto the after deck they call the Cockpit. Pilothouse comes to my mind faster than bridge deck, but what the hey!
There is a right and left bank to navigators.
"One of the biggest confusions for a yachtsman venturing inland on continental waterways is the use of the terms Left Bank and Right Bank. The thing that must be kept in mind is that Left Bank and Right Bank are fixed reference points named from the perspective of looking from the source of a river towards its mouth or where it runs into another river. This means that when travelling downstream you will have the Left Bank to Port, and travelling upstream it will be to Starboard; it’s as simple as that."
https://www.bargehandling.com/Barge...ntries/2016/11/15_Left_Bank_-_Right_Bank.html
In my mind, a pilothouse would be fully enclosed. A helm that's open to the outside would be a bridge (flying or otherwise). But if it's not a distinct area (such as a lower helm in a salon), then I'd probably just call it "the helm".
A pretty lame yachtsman that wouldnt know that.
Many boaters don't as they don't boat on rivers where the use is prevalent.
Vital to get this right when visiting Paris. Philippines not so much.All you need to say is....left bank, the convention is to face downriver, same as to face forward on a boat.
Vital to get this right when visiting Paris. Philippines not so much.
I grew up sailing on the Connecticut River and now we keep our boat on the Missouri River and I wasn't aware of the left/right bank thing. Guess I'm one of those "lame" boaters.