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It's funny to me that some olaf 1000 years ago just called them what they were; the steering side and the docking side, and now we have to use the same words wh
by rmrk 3y ago
It's funny to me that some olaf 1000 years ago just called them what they were; the steering side and the docking side, and now we have to use the same words which don't make any sense to us. I vote we just call them the steering-side and the docking-side again.
- wpietri 3y agoUnfortunately, we no longer have consistent steering and docking sides. So first you're going to have to rebuild a lot of ships.
- lardo 3y agoMy understanding is that port’s usage is somewhat recent. In the English sailing world the opposite of starboard was larboard. The royal navy made the change within the last few hundred years.
- greesil 3y agoOne of the fun things I learned when reading master and commander was this.
- soneil 3y agoThe steering side is now the back. And docking .. in the Mediterranean the docking side is commonly the back too. In Scandinavia it's commonly the front. It's probably for the best that they've been detached from their original meanings.