Honestly, yeah. That’s what I relied on as well and what was taught to me. Also what I then taught to the people under me. I have no other real way of understanding it. I know why we use port/starboard but I’ve never looked into why port/starboard are the words we’ve stuck with.
Honestly, yeah. That’s what I relied on as well and what was taught to me. Also what I then taught to the people under me. I have no other real way of understanding it. I know why we use port/starboard but I’ve never looked into why port/starboard are the words we’ve stuck with.
That’s easy. We use ‘port’ because that’s the left side, and ‘starboard’ because that’s the other side of the boat.
No, no. No need to thank me. I’m just one humble man trading information gleaned from a long life of learning.