From: bruce C. Beattie (bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 10 2006 - 11:30:14 PST
Thanks Jack,
Well, I was sort of close. It just goes to show you that even the
seasoned old time
crew on merchant ships, don't always have the correct scoop.
I spent 10 years on merchant ships and never heard the explanation for
starboard and larboard as quoted below in the provided link.
Bruce
Jack Rabon wrote:
>http://www.yacht-volant.org/SailorTalk/seaterms03.html
>
>Jack
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:19:51 -0800
>From: "Bruce C. Beattie" <bruce@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
>Subject: Re: [MV] Yo ho, yo ho
>
>At one time they decided that they were having too many accidents
>because it was hard to
>differentiate between starboard and larboard in a gale, so they changed
>larboard to port which was
>pretty much the same meaning.
>
>Bruce
>
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