2007-02-17 16:46:30 · 13 answers · asked by marco_4ruler 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
Starboard is the right side of a vessel, port side is the left side, the bow is forward, the stern is aft, the top deck is called topside. The lower spaces are called below. Hope this is helpful to you.
2007-02-19 04:47:55 · answer #1 · answered by johnkmayer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no left hand side. From the Aft looking forward is Port and Starboard.The Starboard side is the side that you use to board other vessels with, the Port side is the side that is tied to the Quay.
If you are on the Bow looking aft, the Port and Starboard are the same. No matter which area you are at or not at on or in a vessel, there is a Port and a Starboard area. There is a Bow and Astern area. Port is commonly referred to as the Left Side looking Forward from Aft, But Portside is same when looking Aft from Bow, One side is Port, always, one side is Starboard, always.
2007-02-19 07:36:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Starboard is a nautical term refering to the right side of the boat if you are looking to the bow (front) and port would be to your left. Any easy way to remember is that left and port both have 4 letters in them
2007-02-18 00:54:48 · answer #3 · answered by francescmore 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you asking what the opposite side of "STEER-BOARD" is? Starboard is a watered down word when ships went from a side mounted "Steer-board" to a center mounted "rudder" that we all now know of. Galleys and others of the early days used the steer-board, mounted on the right side of the vessel, looking forward, as the rudder but you could not dock the vessel on the "steer-board" side or you would damage it. SO, you docked on the left side only. It became known as the "Port" side because "in Port" you tied up at the dock on the left side.
2007-02-18 18:30:09 · answer #4 · answered by scooterdude1340 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Port
2007-02-20 04:47:22 · answer #5 · answered by Studly Jim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Port
2007-02-18 00:50:40 · answer #6 · answered by gdwrnch40 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the left is the Port side.
2007-02-18 00:48:47 · answer #7 · answered by Night Wind 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the left hand side is called the port side i remember it by the saying you "left" the port behind.
2007-02-18 06:11:37 · answer #8 · answered by bottlebunyip 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Left hand is port
2007-02-18 00:52:32 · answer #9 · answered by Spyderbear 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Port.
2007-02-18 00:54:19 · answer #10 · answered by Beni 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋