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

"quizno mouse" wrote in message
oups.com...
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


Just remember to remember. Seriously.....

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

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

On Aug 10, 9:47 am, Gene Kearns
wrote:

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

Puleeeze..... attend a USPS school or the like.



Puleeeze?? Do you really talk like that? Anyway, if you read his
question, he asked for an "easy trick, or rule of thumb", I think I
gave the best answer to "his" question so far. And as far a a USPS
school, I am somewhat confused. But I have taken my required boaing
courses, and have completed all the requirements for my operators
licence, in fact I aced the test. If you have more training, or don't
consider my states requirements good enough, change the law, God bless
you, I boat in the river and local lakes, I have most of the
information I need, nobody knows everything.

Now you have agitated me, I wipe out your sig file sir, and I usually
leave it

wrote:
On Aug 10, 9:47 am, Gene Kearns
wrote:

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
Puleeeze..... attend a USPS school or the like.



Puleeeze?? Do you really talk like that? Anyway, if you read his
question, he asked for an "easy trick, or rule of thumb", I think I
gave the best answer to "his" question so far. And as far a a USPS
school, I am somewhat confused. But I have taken my required boaing
courses, and have completed all the requirements for my operators
licence, in fact I aced the test. If you have more training, or don't
consider my states requirements good enough, change the law, God bless
you, I boat in the river and local lakes, I have most of the
information I need, nobody knows everything.

Now you have agitated me, I wipe out your sig file sir, and I usually
leave it


Just,
The OP was discussing the NAV lights on his boat, not Nav Markers. The
Port light on a boat is red, the Starboard Light on a boat is green, so
when you see a green light on your port side, the boat is going to cross
your path. If you see a red light on your starboard side, the boat will
cross your path.

On Aug 10, 10:06 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:


Just,
The OP was discussing the NAV lights on his boat, not Nav Markers.

I thought so too, but he also asked about direction, so I figured I
would add a quick tip there too just in case. He being a new boater
might not know what he is or really needs to ask.

The
Port light on a boat is red, the Starboard Light on a boat is green, so
when you see a green light on your port side, the boat is going to cross
your path. If you see a red light on your starboard side, the boat will
cross your path.- -

Someone posted this link the other day:
http://www.boatsafe.com/flash/reviewlights.html
I am going to study till I know it, going to make my kids do it too.

Anyway, I hope in the long run, the guy gets the "tip" he needs.

wrote:
On Aug 10, 10:06 am, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Just,
The OP was discussing the NAV lights on his boat, not Nav Markers.

I thought so too, but he also asked about direction, so I figured I
would add a quick tip there too just in case. He being a new boater
might not know what he is or really needs to ask.

The
Port light on a boat is red, the Starboard Light on a boat is green, so
when you see a green light on your port side, the boat is going to cross
your path. If you see a red light on your starboard side, the boat will
cross your path.- -

Someone posted this link the other day:
http://www.boatsafe.com/flash/reviewlights.html
I am going to study till I know it, going to make my kids do it too.

Anyway, I hope in the long run, the guy gets the "tip" he needs.




Let's see. I'm heading north. I look to my left, or port, side, and I
see another boat's lights. Actually I see its green nav light. So,
according to Reggie Retardo, the other boat is going to cross my path.

Except the other boat is on a course parallel to mine, and is heading in
the same direction.

Now, I'm a few miles upstream. The other boat is far behind. I see a red
nav light on my starboard side. According to Reggie Retardo, the boat
will cross my path.

Except the other boat is on a course parallel to mine, and is heading in
the same direction.

Whoops.

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.

Homepagehttp://pamandgene.idleplay.net/

Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguidehttp://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats

---
avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean.
Virus Database (VPS): 000764-4, 08/10/2007
Tested on: 8/10/2007 11:35:14 AM
avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2007 ALWIL Software.http://www.avast.com-

No problem, we cool. Anyway, am I supposed to strip out sig files?
(puts on flame proof undies, waits for peer review) ...

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:47:20 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

Puleeeze..... attend a USPS school or the like. The above information
is correct, but incomplete. This can get horribly confusing when
navigating from a primary channel into a secondary channel or vice
versa.

Don't venture out without a chart.

Excellent advice.

That said, here's a few memory aids:

"Port wine red" - the red nav light is on the port (left) side.

"Red right returning and left leaving" - channel buoys (normally when
entering a harbor)

"Red light stop" - the boat you are observing has the right of way
because it is approaching from your starboard (right) side.

To a beginner the use of port and starboard terminology may seem like
an unnecessary complexity but it is not. The port side of the boat is
always the same regardless of which way you are facing at the time.
For example, if you say the "left side" that is ambiguous to someone
who is facing backwards, and you are facing forwards.