On Aug 10, 8:58 am, wrote:
On Aug 10, 8:54 am, 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

Port has less letters than starboard, left has less letters than
right. Port is left, right starboard.

If you are traveling in a river and looking at the bouys to stay in
the lane, remember to keep the Red bouys, on the right side of your
boat, while returning up river. So remember red, right, return... HTH

Now that's a neat little trick Thanks HTH.

I took boating courses in French and they had a trick similar using
the word Battery ( batterie in French)
Left for BAT and right for TERY ( in French Port is Babord and
Starboard is Tribord) so the word Bat-Terie came in pretty handy)
usefull trick for anyone sailing in the french isles,
The Port red and green Starboard is already anchored in my mind Thanks
guys!!!

Don