On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:19:06 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

I tell newbies who really want to remember it is to put two small
stickers on the console or windshield - red labeled port, green
labeled starboard.

Eventually you won't need the stickers anymore.

Heh, you'd think so wouldn't you.

I have put customized red and green labels on my engines and fuel
manifold valves in the engine room because it is just too darned easy
to get your mind turned around down there. When switching filters and
tanks I always stop and look, helps to prevent embarassing
"incidents".

On Aug 10, 11:35 am, Gene Kearns
wrote:
my answer was NOT directed at
you, but meant to build on your post..... which *was* good.

I responded with the picture in my mind, from earlier this week.... of
a largish cuddy cabin boat (manufacturer deleted to prevent flame
wars) hard aground. I'll never forget the looks on the two guys' faces
as they surveyed both their plight and how other boaters seemed to be
violating the rule.

I'm sure, these guys were navigating using the red-right-return
system. Navigation, sans chart, using this system, where primary and
secondary channels are concerned, almost guarantees this result. Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

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On Aug 10, 11:51 am, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:19:06 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing

wrote:
I tell newbies who really want to remember it is to put two small
stickers on the console or windshield - red labeled port, green
labeled starboard.

Eventually you won't need the stickers anymore.

Heh, you'd think so wouldn't you.

I have put customized red and green labels on my engines and fuel
manifold valves in the engine room because it is just too darned easy
to get your mind turned around down there. When switching filters and
tanks I always stop and look, helps to prevent embarassing
"incidents".

I am similar with my battery hookups. I look at the colors and
markings, and then I feel the positive and negative stamp on the top
of the terminal or battery casing. Of course I do a lot of things like
that by habit, my eyesight is real bad, even with glasses.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
If you only
see red and white, then the boat will be to your left. If you only
see green and white, then the boat will be to your right.

Other way.... (Typo-transposition?)

Rick

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:10:58 -0500, lid wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
If you only
see red and white, then the boat will be to your left. If you only
see green and white, then the boat will be to your right.

Other way.... (Typo-transposition?)

I assumed thta given an illustration, the original poster could
extrapolate other situations.

Short Wave:
If you only
see red and white, then the boat will be to your left. If you only
see green and white, then the boat will be to your right.

Phantman:
Other way.... (Typo-transposition?)

Short Wave:
I assumed thta given an illustration, the original poster could
extrapolate other situations.

I must have missed something. I assumed we were talking about lesson
#1, the top of the learning priority list for a newbie, basic
collision avoidance in a crossing situation.

Rick

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:54:11 -0700, quizno mouse
wrote:

I am new to boating and I always get confused with portside and
starboard or the red and green nav lights position and direction.
Is there an easy trick or rule of thumb one can use to always remember
these ?

Thanks for the help

I remember it as the opposite of the "Red, Right Returning" Bouy
system.
Mark E. Williams.
Sounds stupid but that's how I remember it.

Maynard G. Krebbs wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:54:11 -0700, quizno mouse
wrote:

I am new to boating and I always get confused with portside and
starboard or the red and green nav lights position and direction.
Is there an easy trick or rule of thumb one can use to always remember
these ?

Thanks for the help

I remember it as the opposite of the "Red, Right Returning" Bouy
system.
Mark E. Williams.
Sounds stupid but that's how I remember it.


Everyone learns Red Right Returning.

On Aug 10, 9:01 pm, HK wrote:
Maynard G. Krebbs wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:54:11 -0700, quizno mouse
wrote:

I am new to boating and I always get confused with portside and
starboard or the red and green nav lights position and direction.
Is there an easy trick or rule of thumb one can use to always remember
these ?

Thanks for the help

I remember it as the opposite of the "Red, Right Returning" Bouy
system.
Mark E. Williams.
Sounds stupid but that's how I remember it.

Everyone learns Red Right Returning.

Like I said, on the boat I use the letters method

left, port, red all have less letters than right, starboard, green,

But I think it was WB? that noted the colored tape method, I plan to
do that too near the bow with tape or paint, maybe even on the center
thwart. A stupid word by the way. Why can't I say seat? Cause it's not
a seat kid. Justwaitafrekinminute here

wrote:
On Aug 10, 9:01 pm, HK wrote:
Maynard G. Krebbs wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:54:11 -0700, quizno mouse
wrote:
I am new to boating and I always get confused with portside and
starboard or the red and green nav lights position and direction.
Is there an easy trick or rule of thumb one can use to always remember
these ?
Thanks for the help
I remember it as the opposite of the "Red, Right Returning" Bouy
system.
Mark E. Williams.
Sounds stupid but that's how I remember it.
Everyone learns Red Right Returning.

Like I said, on the boat I use the letters method

left, port, red all have less letters than right, starboard, green,

But I think it was WB? that noted the colored tape method, I plan to
do that too near the bow with tape or paint, maybe even on the center
thwart. A stupid word by the way. Why can't I say seat? Cause it's not
a seat kid. Justwaitafrekinminute here



But what do you call it if it is not running athwart? :}