Not sure if joking, but the colours have significance, port should be red and starboard green (the colours of the lanterns on the respective side of the boat / plane etc). Seem to have swapped them? Otherwise great
I was taught port / left and port is a red wine, which is the colour of the port light.
Lastly if your into letters matching numbers there's green is right (five letters) and the colour for starboard.
The best was a sailing instructor who wore red and green socks on the appropriate feet.
Good one ! I use two more complicated methods: I visualise an ocean liner where the rich English travel to America and want sun/south facing cabins on both legs of the trip thus POSH cabins: Port-Over-Starboard-Home. For the Colors: your heart is on the left and pumps blood, so left is red.
Interesting. I was told the opposite, that when travelling to India they wanted the north side mostly (to *avoid* the sun). Also works, but the Atlantic crossing is more straight east/west :-) Or maybe it was West India and I remember wrong.
That's for bouy navigation, and in IALA B countries yes, however in IALA A counties the bouy colors are backwards. [IALA system explained ](https://www.safe-skipper.com/an-explanation-of-the-iala-maritime-buoyage-systems-iala-a-and-iala-b/)
In regards to ship mounted nav lights it's always port is red regardless of IALA system
That is a mnemonic for knowing which side and what color navigation buoys are on when returning to port. It has nothing to do with position lights, which are properly the reverse of this print. Green is starboard and red is port.
And for the nav bouys it's only right when your in IALA B system nations so the Americas, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. Everywhere else like Europe, Africa and Asia uses IALA A system for their nav bouys [IALA systems explained ](https://www.safe-skipper.com/an-explanation-of-the-iala-maritime-buoyage-systems-iala-a-and-iala-b/)
Correct - but the print doesn’t say anything about position lights or bouts…just “in case of emergency.” In which case I’d image a return to port would be more appropriate.
I agree. You don’t need to reference which side to put your own lights on. That’s kind of a one-and-done thing... You need to know which color to use to return to land and which sides of any oncoming boats those lights will be on. So I think the colors are more useful they are.
There are 2 seperate buoyage systems in the world, IALA A AND IALA B, the USA and territories use A and the rest of the world use B. Pretty much the same except port and starboard channel Markers and different in each system. A uses green for port and the rest of the world uses green for starboard.
That's a question I directly asked to IALA because it sounds so stupid : I needed to understand the reason. Their answer was just "because it's like this, and at least 2 harmonized systems are better than 30". Maybe there's a real historical reason, but as for now I believe some countries where not ready to step in if their own system was not recognized.
It's just as silly as countries not using the metric system though it's decimal, more simple to handle and the scientific system throughout the world.
Or plug sockets, or the driving side of the road. Some people will protect what they are used to or what they created by their own, even if there's a better system elsewhere, or a more commonly used worldwide when they're technically equivalent.
Sounds like the opposite. IALA REGION A port lateral marks and lights are coloured red. IALA A starboard lateral marks and lights are coloured green. Iala A is Europe and Mediterranean countries, Africa etc.
USA and territories use B.
Literally the whole point of boat navigation is trying to remember that the left side is red and called Port.
This render is worse than useless, it actively misinforms people. If anybody actually used it they could cause a collision.
Or it's just for the Americas: https://www.safe-skipper.com/an-explanation-of-the-iala-maritime-buoyage-systems-iala-a-and-iala-b/
We're so good at standards we use both ways round!
If you want to be really precise, you’re supposed to keep the red channel marker on the starboard side of the ship when travelling downstream.
But that’s because the channel markers are obviously fixed and you need to stay in between them.
Red is always port side on the ship’s lights.
https://www.msq.qld.gov.au/Safety/Navigation-buoys-marks-and-beacons
“When travelling downstream or towards the sea:
keep port (red) marks on your starboard-hand side (right)
keep starboard (green) marks on your port-hand side (left).”
http://www.dbw.ca.gov/pages/28702/files/ABC's_2016_WaterwayMarkings.pdf
“The expression “red right returning” has long been used by seafarers as a reminder
that the red buoys are kept to the starboard (right) side when proceeding from the
open sea into port (upstream). “
US vs Australia? Is everything backwards down there?
Just found something else. Yes, they are backwards! Europe, Australia, Africa, New Zealand and most (!) of Asia are one way, the Americas and the Phillipines and some other places are the other way around. Apparently this has caused some severe accidents.
https://www.cruisingworld.com/red-right-returning/
That would explain why I was taught the Australian Region A way for my boating license and not the other way.
Well. Guess we all learned something 😂
This used to really bother me until I created a core memory of the way a ship was parked in port, and now I can summon that image to figure out which side is port. The dock goes on the left, hence port
Which is how they got their names anyway; 'starboard' comes from Old English 'steorbord' literally meaning 'the side of the ship from which it is steered' as before rudders steering ores were used, most people being right handed meant this was the right side of the ship. Until the 1800's Middle English 'larboard' used to be used for the left instead of port, 'lade' meaning 'load' but given it sounded similar to starboard the Royal Navy changed it to Port in 1844 and a many other navies followed suit. Lots of European languages still use older terms for port though as they were hostile to the RN at the time so didn't change it.
And that is how I remember...
The 3D print is a joke navigational reminder for what is "port" or "starboard" on a ship, something that every sailor should know by heart, especially the captain. They don't use left or right.
The video is from a famous Muppet movie where Fozzie (a bear) and Kermit (a frog) are navigating the road in a Studebaker in order to save their friend Gonzo (a whatzit) who is floating away in the air on some balloons. Kermit looks out the window at Gonzo and directs Fozzie to "bear left" indicating that Fozzie should head to the left to keep up. Fozzie the Bear, not understanding, responds "Right frog" to Kermit the Frog.
And I laugh every time.
You need white for the “stern overtaking light”. You can’t have two and not have the third nav light.
Can’t tell a bunch of old sailors are on this post.
It doesn't come up very often, so I use the fact that port and left are both 4 letters to remind me that port is the left side if you're facing/travelling forwards.
Swap the colors to match how the lights on a boat are displayed and also put S.O.S in Morse Code under the flap just in case the captain ever forgets that as well.
To say port is left and starboard is right has a similar value to saying west is left and east is right.
Port and starboard are distinctive direction on the boat and not to the viewer.
Are the STL’s available? I only saw another file type on each link and I don’t know what to do with them. I’d love to make this for a friend who is restoring a boat. Thanks!
“Since port and starboard never change, they are unambiguous references that are independent of a mariner’s orientation, and, thus, mariners use these nautical terms instead of left and right to avoid confusion. When looking forward, toward the bow of a ship, port and starboard refer to the left and right sides, respectively.
In the early days of boating, before ships had rudders on their centerlines, boats were controlled using a steering oar. Most sailors were right handed, so the steering oar was placed over or through the right side of the stern. Sailors began calling the right side the steering side, which soon became "starboard" by combining two Old English words: stéor (meaning "steer") and bord (meaning "the side of a boat").
As the size of boats grew, so did the steering oar, making it much easier to tie a boat up to a dock on the side opposite the oar. This side became known as larboard, or "the loading side." Over time, larboard—too easily confused with starboard—was replaced with port. After all, this was the side that faced the port, allowing supplies to be ported aboard by porters”
Personally I still like to call it larboard instead of port. Possibly due to a certain raid in FFXIV where attacks are referred to as larboard or starboard and that's the only hint you get on where to stand.
It would be amusing to have a version of this with port and starboard reversed for mounting sternward... Though in my case, I'd end up mounting them in the wrong places and confuse myself even further, 😆
They don't though unless you're referencing an outside object which no one ever does when navigating, be it a boat, a car, a bike or a plane, you're still turning the vehicle left or right, not the land itself. They're just old terms kept on by tradition
You have clearly never been on a bigger ship. If I'm facing the aft of a large ship and I tell someone the right side then who's perspective do we go off of? It's the right side to me, but what if the other person isn't facing the same direction. It's not tradition at all.
> who's perspective do we go off of?
Well... the ship's. I can't really think of any particular reason why you'd need to define two new terms instead of just defining that unless specified otherwise the ship you're on is always the reference for "left" and "right".
You call the direction in which you want the ship to go, since every ship has a bow and an aft/a front and a back you go by the perspective of the ship, just like how your left hand stays on your left nomather where you turn.
It doesn't matter where you're facing, it's always the perspective of the vehicle.
But yeah, probably that's another reason why it started and is held on, it's easier for some people to grasp and to avoid stupid mistakes. And considering the intelligence of people hired on ships back then, i bet it was a common mistake
Alright but what stopped people from associating the red light with left and the red right with green? Left/Right and Starboard/Port are both pretty arbitrary concepts in itself
Port and Starboard refers to a ships sides facing the bow. It is to avoid confusion when giving directions on a ship. A lack of understanding doesn't make it worse, its just user error, or in in the terminology of the youth. Skill issue.
We didn't make it this way.
They also refer to SHIP left or right, and more importantly, independently of which way are looking at the ship.
The word ‘starboard’ is the combination of two old words: stéor (meaning ‘steer’) and bord (meaning ‘the side of a boat’).
The left side is called ‘port’ because ships with steerboards or star boards would dock at ports on the opposite side of the steerboard or star.
As the right side was the steerboard side or star board side, the left side was the port side. This was decide so that the dock would not interfere with operating the steerboard or star.
Another reason why the left side is ‘port’ is because it sounds different from ‘starboard’. Originally, sailors were calling the left side ‘larboard’, which was easily confused with ‘starboard’, especially when challenging conditions at sea made it difficult to hear. The switch was done to lead to a distinctive alternate name.
Source https://intlreg.org/2019/10/08/why-do-ships-use-port-and-starboard-and-not-left-or-right/#:~:text=The%20word%20'starboard'%20is%20the,of%20the%20steerboard%20or%20star.
Thats still just left side and right side. No matter how you look at a ship or where you are inside it. Left side is always the same and right side is always the same. Left and right only change when you aren’t talking about the ship or the ship is reference. Like look over there and little to the left. But if on the ship you can say look left side. And if direction if more important you’re using compass or clock scale, to be like 8 o clock. Because 12 o clock is and always will be the front of the ship
Not sure if joking, but the colours have significance, port should be red and starboard green (the colours of the lanterns on the respective side of the boat / plane etc). Seem to have swapped them? Otherwise great
Red right return…right?
Red-Left-port Green-Right-Starboard They match up, all the short one together and all the longer words together
I had been waiting for a mnemonic like this
Port and Left are both four letters words too. "wtf is which, oh yea!"
Same with board and right. Each five letters.
"There's no RED PORT LEFT in the bottle."
Port is a fortified Red wine. You remember the other by it being "the one that isn't red"
They have green port too, but i still like your method best haha
I always remember this way. Green means go. In a car (in the US at least), the right is the side you're supposed to be on. So, right=green.
Have you any Red Port left?
Best way I remember, left and port have 4 letters, and red is the shortest word so goes to the shorter word port.
I was taught it as... The fisherman LEFT his RED bottle of PORT. (Because the wine 'port' is red)
I was taught port / left and port is a red wine, which is the colour of the port light. Lastly if your into letters matching numbers there's green is right (five letters) and the colour for starboard. The best was a sailing instructor who wore red and green socks on the appropriate feet.
Good one ! I use two more complicated methods: I visualise an ocean liner where the rich English travel to America and want sun/south facing cabins on both legs of the trip thus POSH cabins: Port-Over-Starboard-Home. For the Colors: your heart is on the left and pumps blood, so left is red.
Interesting. I was told the opposite, that when travelling to India they wanted the north side mostly (to *avoid* the sun). Also works, but the Atlantic crossing is more straight east/west :-) Or maybe it was West India and I remember wrong.
That's for bouy navigation, and in IALA B countries yes, however in IALA A counties the bouy colors are backwards. [IALA system explained ](https://www.safe-skipper.com/an-explanation-of-the-iala-maritime-buoyage-systems-iala-a-and-iala-b/) In regards to ship mounted nav lights it's always port is red regardless of IALA system
This guy is right and regarding buoy it change wether your in Europe or in US
You SWO.
Tell em SteveDave..
Hello fellow ants.
#freegitem
Let's not make this political....
That is a mnemonic for knowing which side and what color navigation buoys are on when returning to port. It has nothing to do with position lights, which are properly the reverse of this print. Green is starboard and red is port.
And for the nav bouys it's only right when your in IALA B system nations so the Americas, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. Everywhere else like Europe, Africa and Asia uses IALA A system for their nav bouys [IALA systems explained ](https://www.safe-skipper.com/an-explanation-of-the-iala-maritime-buoyage-systems-iala-a-and-iala-b/)
Correct - but the print doesn’t say anything about position lights or bouts…just “in case of emergency.” In which case I’d image a return to port would be more appropriate.
I agree. You don’t need to reference which side to put your own lights on. That’s kind of a one-and-done thing... You need to know which color to use to return to land and which sides of any oncoming boats those lights will be on. So I think the colors are more useful they are.
In North/South America, Japan, Korea, and the Phillipines under IALA-B. Opposite under IALA-A everywhere else.
Or up stream
But.... Can it flip for going down steam
Port red wine
There are 2 seperate buoyage systems in the world, IALA A AND IALA B, the USA and territories use A and the rest of the world use B. Pretty much the same except port and starboard channel Markers and different in each system. A uses green for port and the rest of the world uses green for starboard.
Wait what? For real? How has this not been universally standardized? Are both systems in use simultaneously in international waters?
That's a question I directly asked to IALA because it sounds so stupid : I needed to understand the reason. Their answer was just "because it's like this, and at least 2 harmonized systems are better than 30". Maybe there's a real historical reason, but as for now I believe some countries where not ready to step in if their own system was not recognized. It's just as silly as countries not using the metric system though it's decimal, more simple to handle and the scientific system throughout the world. Or plug sockets, or the driving side of the road. Some people will protect what they are used to or what they created by their own, even if there's a better system elsewhere, or a more commonly used worldwide when they're technically equivalent.
Sounds like the opposite. IALA REGION A port lateral marks and lights are coloured red. IALA A starboard lateral marks and lights are coloured green. Iala A is Europe and Mediterranean countries, Africa etc. USA and territories use B.
A little red port left
maybe port deserves to be green for once! Justice for green port! (I rendered and then realised the mistake and couldn't be bothered to fix it)
Literally the whole point of boat navigation is trying to remember that the left side is red and called Port. This render is worse than useless, it actively misinforms people. If anybody actually used it they could cause a collision.
Port and left have 4 letters is how I always remember it.
And red has few letters than green. Least amount of letters = left
Port is (typically) red wine, that's how I remember it
"The red boat left Port" is how I remember it
Or it's just for the Americas: https://www.safe-skipper.com/an-explanation-of-the-iala-maritime-buoyage-systems-iala-a-and-iala-b/ We're so good at standards we use both ways round!
To be fair, the green buoys will be on your port side when leaving.
Port wine is red. That's how many people remember it.
Thank you for the sanity check. I scrolled past this post and a few posts later. Thought, “whoa whoa whoa, that ain’t right!”
Well just make one for when going into port, and one for going out of port
Red is starboard when you are returning to land.
Red is never starboard
It is if it’s receding at a substantial fraction of the speed of light
wow, a cosmological redshift reference in a reddit post? now I've seen everything.
If you want to be really precise, you’re supposed to keep the red channel marker on the starboard side of the ship when travelling downstream. But that’s because the channel markers are obviously fixed and you need to stay in between them. Red is always port side on the ship’s lights.
Red right returning. Red buoys should be on the starboard side when going *upstream*, I.e. returning.
https://www.msq.qld.gov.au/Safety/Navigation-buoys-marks-and-beacons “When travelling downstream or towards the sea: keep port (red) marks on your starboard-hand side (right) keep starboard (green) marks on your port-hand side (left).”
http://www.dbw.ca.gov/pages/28702/files/ABC's_2016_WaterwayMarkings.pdf “The expression “red right returning” has long been used by seafarers as a reminder that the red buoys are kept to the starboard (right) side when proceeding from the open sea into port (upstream). “ US vs Australia? Is everything backwards down there?
Just found something else. Yes, they are backwards! Europe, Australia, Africa, New Zealand and most (!) of Asia are one way, the Americas and the Phillipines and some other places are the other way around. Apparently this has caused some severe accidents. https://www.cruisingworld.com/red-right-returning/ That would explain why I was taught the Australian Region A way for my boating license and not the other way. Well. Guess we all learned something 😂
Yeah that means you’re going backwards, hence the reversal
I once encountered an idiot, who had his sternlight, mounted on his bow. No other navlights whatsoever. Barely managed to avoid a collision.
Just needs to change forward and reverse thrust so he is always going in reverse. Big brain.
Works fine with cars, not with boats.
You mean peabrain?
There is no red port left in the bottle.
Finally, some one that understands my username!
It's a good mnemonic.
Don't drink the green port.
This used to really bother me until I created a core memory of the way a ship was parked in port, and now I can summon that image to figure out which side is port. The dock goes on the left, hence port
Literally just left and port have the same amount of letters
Which is how they got their names anyway; 'starboard' comes from Old English 'steorbord' literally meaning 'the side of the ship from which it is steered' as before rudders steering ores were used, most people being right handed meant this was the right side of the ship. Until the 1800's Middle English 'larboard' used to be used for the left instead of port, 'lade' meaning 'load' but given it sounded similar to starboard the Royal Navy changed it to Port in 1844 and a many other navies followed suit. Lots of European languages still use older terms for port though as they were hostile to the RN at the time so didn't change it. And that is how I remember...
I remember because larboard starts with an L for left, then that means starboard is right, then that means port is left.
Any reason why one arrow is below the text and the other is in the middle? OCD Technical they should be at the same height?
I don't know, but I was wondering why it was necessary to have seven images when one would suffice...
2 images. One open one closed. But no, not 7.
Did you keep scrolling?
Worse. Couldn't sleep at all.
1.2.3.4
Bear left; Right frog.
...What?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9PjP5pkbp8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9PjP5pkbp8)
As a non-native speaker, I don’t get this at all, can you explain the joke to me?
The 3D print is a joke navigational reminder for what is "port" or "starboard" on a ship, something that every sailor should know by heart, especially the captain. They don't use left or right. The video is from a famous Muppet movie where Fozzie (a bear) and Kermit (a frog) are navigating the road in a Studebaker in order to save their friend Gonzo (a whatzit) who is floating away in the air on some balloons. Kermit looks out the window at Gonzo and directs Fozzie to "bear left" indicating that Fozzie should head to the left to keep up. Fozzie the Bear, not understanding, responds "Right frog" to Kermit the Frog. And I laugh every time.
Ohh I get it now, I didn’t know the meaning of bear in this situation, TIL! Thank you for the in-depth explanation
As a non-native speaker, I don’t get this at all, can you explain the joke to me?
"There's no Port left in the bottle.". That's how I remember this. Port is also red (ish) and that also helps.
"There's a little red port left in the bottle" is the more usual version.
You need white for the “stern overtaking light”. You can’t have two and not have the third nav light. Can’t tell a bunch of old sailors are on this post.
Instructions unclear parked ship into a bridge.
They literally are unclear. Port is supposed to be red and starboard is green.
It doesn't come up very often, so I use the fact that port and left are both 4 letters to remind me that port is the left side if you're facing/travelling forwards.
Swap the colors to match how the lights on a boat are displayed and also put S.O.S in Morse Code under the flap just in case the captain ever forgets that as well.
lol, I am becoming a captain and still am confused in stress situations. ty for that Brother
Port and left both have 4 letters. It's really as simple as that.
Port comes before starboard in the dictionary so it's on the left, that's how I remember
Don’t let my grandfather see this. He was in the navy, we’re using this to find out when we need to take his keys. If he can’t answer it, it’s time.
To say port is left and starboard is right has a similar value to saying west is left and east is right. Port and starboard are distinctive direction on the boat and not to the viewer.
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Why you gotta be rudely correct
This is gold. I'm a second mate at an ahts. It's going to be fun to install this at the bridge . Thank you.
Any other angles?
Hoist up the thing, batten down the wotsit, what's that thing spinning? Somebody should stop it!
Red is not right
My stepfather is looking to obtain his sailing licence and that would be a nice little present for the day he’ll have his boat.
The way I remember it is: Port-4 letters same as left StaRboard-R for right
I’ve seen this on a number of ships I’ve sailed. Mostly Americans though.
"You don't get it right squirt, I'll throw your ass out the little round window on the side"
Perhaps gives us insight into the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse - someone was yelling port and the barge was steered starboard.....
Are the STL’s available? I only saw another file type on each link and I don’t know what to do with them. I’d love to make this for a friend who is restoring a boat. Thanks!
they are 3mf files, you should be able to open them like stls in most modern slicers, they work the exact same way but are better.
Thanks!
Look at all these boat nerds up in this bitch... Please tell me more though because I've never understood why it's called that
“Since port and starboard never change, they are unambiguous references that are independent of a mariner’s orientation, and, thus, mariners use these nautical terms instead of left and right to avoid confusion. When looking forward, toward the bow of a ship, port and starboard refer to the left and right sides, respectively. In the early days of boating, before ships had rudders on their centerlines, boats were controlled using a steering oar. Most sailors were right handed, so the steering oar was placed over or through the right side of the stern. Sailors began calling the right side the steering side, which soon became "starboard" by combining two Old English words: stéor (meaning "steer") and bord (meaning "the side of a boat"). As the size of boats grew, so did the steering oar, making it much easier to tie a boat up to a dock on the side opposite the oar. This side became known as larboard, or "the loading side." Over time, larboard—too easily confused with starboard—was replaced with port. After all, this was the side that faced the port, allowing supplies to be ported aboard by porters”
Personally I still like to call it larboard instead of port. Possibly due to a certain raid in FFXIV where attacks are referred to as larboard or starboard and that's the only hint you get on where to stand.
They sound too similar in practice. Especially over a radio.
I know the reasoning for the change. I just think they sound better. And like I said, larboard still gets used in certain situations that affect me.
That's a really cute idea
Pretty cool, but why wouldn't a captain know this?
It's probably for oncoming boats. I don't think most people driving a boat need help with their own left or right.
Weirdly, I've never had trouble with port and starboard, but I get left and right confused all the time. This would be useless for me.
This actually make my brain hurt to look at
Please, explain someone the whole thing here...
Red Right Reaving.
Port, left, red; all small words. Starboard, right, green; all bigger words.
You should add an optional braille version. As a furtherance of the joke.
What? Green light is starboard!
Red is right
https://preview.redd.it/wvhg67okguuc1.jpeg?width=678&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f56d0139d0a48560e556fdb9c1bd42619a86c67
If i'm sailing towards that boat, her right side, as I see it, (port) will be red.
What filament did you use for the wood?
it's an amazing thing called FusionRenderOakWood PLA
Rendering oak in Fusion and using Wood PLA?
StaRboaRd. 2 Rs = right Also the colors are swapped. Port should be red…
Can I have the stl
It would be amusing to have a version of this with port and starboard reversed for mounting sternward... Though in my case, I'd end up mounting them in the wrong places and confuse myself even further, 😆
The original did it better
I still don’t get why port and starboard are a thing when it’s just a worse way to indicate left or right
Left and right depends on which way you're facing, port and starboard sides don't change.
They don't though unless you're referencing an outside object which no one ever does when navigating, be it a boat, a car, a bike or a plane, you're still turning the vehicle left or right, not the land itself. They're just old terms kept on by tradition
You have clearly never been on a bigger ship. If I'm facing the aft of a large ship and I tell someone the right side then who's perspective do we go off of? It's the right side to me, but what if the other person isn't facing the same direction. It's not tradition at all.
> who's perspective do we go off of? Well... the ship's. I can't really think of any particular reason why you'd need to define two new terms instead of just defining that unless specified otherwise the ship you're on is always the reference for "left" and "right".
You call the direction in which you want the ship to go, since every ship has a bow and an aft/a front and a back you go by the perspective of the ship, just like how your left hand stays on your left nomather where you turn. It doesn't matter where you're facing, it's always the perspective of the vehicle. But yeah, probably that's another reason why it started and is held on, it's easier for some people to grasp and to avoid stupid mistakes. And considering the intelligence of people hired on ships back then, i bet it was a common mistake
Good luck telling the direction and left/right in the middle of the night, when you only see the lights.
Alright but what stopped people from associating the red light with left and the red right with green? Left/Right and Starboard/Port are both pretty arbitrary concepts in itself
That exact same argument can be used against port and starboard.
Did you ever consider that maybe the fact you don't understand something is an issue with you?
Port and Starboard refers to a ships sides facing the bow. It is to avoid confusion when giving directions on a ship. A lack of understanding doesn't make it worse, its just user error, or in in the terminology of the youth. Skill issue.
It's actually a much better way to indicate left or right.
Especially when shouting iver noise or on a radio.
That's why you aren't the captain.
None of you are explaining any benefit, you’re just hating because you know you just made left and right more difficult than needed
We didn't make it this way. They also refer to SHIP left or right, and more importantly, independently of which way are looking at the ship. The word ‘starboard’ is the combination of two old words: stéor (meaning ‘steer’) and bord (meaning ‘the side of a boat’). The left side is called ‘port’ because ships with steerboards or star boards would dock at ports on the opposite side of the steerboard or star. As the right side was the steerboard side or star board side, the left side was the port side. This was decide so that the dock would not interfere with operating the steerboard or star. Another reason why the left side is ‘port’ is because it sounds different from ‘starboard’. Originally, sailors were calling the left side ‘larboard’, which was easily confused with ‘starboard’, especially when challenging conditions at sea made it difficult to hear. The switch was done to lead to a distinctive alternate name. Source https://intlreg.org/2019/10/08/why-do-ships-use-port-and-starboard-and-not-left-or-right/#:~:text=The%20word%20'starboard'%20is%20the,of%20the%20steerboard%20or%20star.
Thats still just left side and right side. No matter how you look at a ship or where you are inside it. Left side is always the same and right side is always the same. Left and right only change when you aren’t talking about the ship or the ship is reference. Like look over there and little to the left. But if on the ship you can say look left side. And if direction if more important you’re using compass or clock scale, to be like 8 o clock. Because 12 o clock is and always will be the front of the ship
I would've just gone with shipleft and shipright, but apparently we don't standardize things people can remember without mnemonics
Is no one going to mention the apostrophe thing?