BIANCO ROBERTO wrote:

Hi all,

I am perusing the "Greek waters pilot" by Rod Heikell in
preparation for a possible cruise in the Aegean. The maps of
the harbors' entrances show a Green buoy on starboard and Red
buoy to port.

Is "Green Right Returning" the Med-equivalent of "Red Right
Returning" on this side of the pond?

E-references for navigational rules in the Med anybody?

Thanks
Roberto


This is news to me, I am astonished.

Exerything is relative. Left, right, coming, going, here, there.

Here, when you leave harbour, you are going to see red bouys left
behind.

There, leaving a life on the high sea, you see red bouys left
behind.

Here, returning from the sea, red on your right is a homey sight.

May be that should be a homey site?

There, when you talk about homeys, they look at you strange.

When you look at the map, to determine left from right, you must
presume a direction of travel. In or out, looking inward or outward,
to or from the sea, coming or going, to or from what to where, etc,
etc, so to speak.

Of course, standing on your head reverses all the rules. So it seems
that going 'there' does too?

There have been instances where pictures, maps, etc have been
inadverdently flipped when printed, reversing the appearance of left
and right.

Pictures get flipped here too, but flipping means different things
here and there, too.

If you are looking at a map through a mirror, everything is where it
shouldn't be.

I know it's a stretch, but how do they do it in Japan, where they
too drive on the other tack, or do Wongs ailing do it right there too?

Alice in looking glass
can't find
pretty ass,
but an ugly donkey.

Two Wongs make a rite?

Pick one from column a, one from column b.

Ain't it a grand old world? Adventure is everywhere.

Terry K