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Fun and easy mnemonic: Port = LEFT (4 letters in each word, same vowel/consonant placement) Port = Red as in Port Wine Therefore, navigation lights: R
by geocrasher 4y ago
Fun and easy mnemonic:
Port = LEFT (4 letters in each word, same vowel/consonant placement)
Port = Red as in Port Wine
Therefore, navigation lights: Red = Port = Left
If you remember that, then starboard is just "not port"
- the_cramer 4y agoBack when i had sailing lessons, the skipper told us this story about the sailors coming home to harbour after weeks of sailing the oceans. They returned to their loved ones who they kept in their HEART which is RED and LEFT and since they were sailing towards the port, the RED lights are to be kept left from the ship. It stuck.
- jahnu 4y agoWorth mentioning that harbour signal lights are not the same the world over https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/69030/why-does-the-us-use-the-opposite-convention-to-the-rest-of-the-world-for-colour https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/69030/why-does-t...