Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 13, 2016

Colorist problem? In case this is fixed before morning, at 1:20am EST, Frazz has red on his right hand, which is correct for port.If the coloring doesn’t need to be fixed, I don’t know what (or why) the youngster is expressing.

Starboard (green) is the right hand side of a ship/plane/person… So the kid is correct; unless Frazz was running backwards his wrist lights are in the wrong side.

How long did Jef Larboard over this one?

no, red on left green on right . red/port, green/starboard

short word/short word, longer word/longer word

Jef is correct. Port is red, Starboard is green.

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You carry green on starboard (right) and red on port (left), he is wearing red on starboard (right) and green on port (left)

The kid better stand to the leeward. Frazz’s running clothes and all that.

Easy to remember – port has 4 letters, left has 4 letters if you just remember that port wine is red everything falls into place

Easier still; the port light is red just as port wine is red.

Then why aren’t auto signal lights red for left and green for right??

I learned, ‘Starboard shines green and port is glowing red,’ from a song in Girl Scouts. To confirm it (years later) after an argument, I asked an American Airlines pilot. His reply: ‘Of course port is red. The pilot is always in the red light district!’

Red at night, sailor’s delight. Green in the morning, sailor’s been pouring…

“There’s no red port wine left”

He doesn’t know his stern from his aft…

Of course, the next point of discussion should be about POSH (Port Out, Starboard Home)

I always thought hearing aid salesmen were daft because they have the color coding backwards, until I looked at my audiologist’s computer and realized that the color coding is not for the wearer, but for the doctor. I guess they assumed that people who wear hearing aids are not smart enough to know red is port and green is starboard.

If 2 ships or 2 planes are approaching each other at night, green is the “go” side, red is the “stop” side. It avoids that little do-si-do that pedestrians sometimes engage in on the sidewalk. Speaking of which, on a trip to London I discovered that they don’t only drive on the left side, they walk there, too.

‘Red Right Returning’ – when you SEE red, you GO right, whether the red is a fixed buoy or another ship. If you see red on a ship, it is moving from your right to your left because you are seeing its left side. You GO right to miss it by going past its stern. As you both approach a common point, it is on your right so it has right of way to go through the common point first.

I am not going out in the water with any of you steering a ship. nobody knows left from right or port or starboard or keel or rudder!!!!

The whiskey is on the table, so port must be left.

At least one of us here lives on the Mississippi and knows the real rule. Know which direction you went when you left home and where the buoys were, and do it bass-ackwards coming home. Worked for Grandpa in the Armistice Day blizzard, works for me now I do not need to know if Frazz is going north or south, I need to know to miss killing him with my truck.

At least one of us here lives on the Mississippi and knows the real rule. Know which direction you went when you left home and where the buoys were, and do it bass-ackwards coming home. Worked for Grandpa in the Armistice Day blizzard, works for me now I do not need to know if Frazz is going north or south, I need to know to miss killing him with my truck.

well, now there’s no red or green so there’s nothing to complain about.

OK, here’s the skinny.

A long, long time ago, before it was practical to make rudders that pivoted in the center, you steered a boat with a “steerboard” that hung off the aft right, because that’s easier for a right-handed steersman. Because of that, you came up to the dock with it on your left side, so you wouldn’t accidentally smash your steerboard, so the left side became the “port” side.

Or at least that was the way I was taught.

I once saw a bumper sticker that simply said, “Starboard wine is green.”

I am ridiculously naïve for not double checking the colors when I haven’t been on an inboard for well over 30 years.

Late last night (after midnight, and I have rule to never post after midnight), I strongly remembered “right is red”; ..but that’s for RCA audio cables.

We lived on a lake an my Dad was a major water skier so I was carried on, driving, and avoiding inboard motor boats a good part of my pre-college years. As a kid I knew that the long words are all on the right.The first way I remembered which side was which was with the idea that port and left had the same number of letters.

And the rule for seeing both red and green: “If two lights you see ahead, put your helm and show your red” and the vessels pass safely rather than crashing head on.

Red right returning is referring to channel markers; always keep the red channel marker to your right when returning to harbor. When referring to an approaching boat, keep your red (port) to the right (your right) of the oncoming boat. At least that’s the way it works in the States.