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Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 13, 2016
Transcript:
Frazz: I know! Small, bright, light and cheap! There's really no excuse not to be visible. Girl: Yet still open to recreational criticism. Frazz: That would be seriously gratuito... Girl: Geez, Frazz! Red is port and green is starboard, not the other way around!
Kev_a_Swing_Dancer Premium Member over 8 years ago
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 doesnât need to be fixed, I donât know what (or why) the youngster is expressing.
catchup over 8 years ago
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.
nosirrom over 8 years ago
How long did Jef Larboard over this one?
llennok1 over 8 years ago
no, red on left green on right . red/port, green/starboard
short word/short word, longer word/longer word
Rhakir over 8 years ago
Jef is correct. Port is red, Starboard is green.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjH6ani7_DQAhUrJMAKHcpXB14QFggrMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eudesign.com%2Fmnems%2Fportstar.htm&usg=AFQjCNGVdyvUW-JGHin_AOiljzT0UqqrMA&sig2=8XSsNfJWmxtnid4yV-3F0Q
cabalonrye over 8 years ago
You carry green on starboard (right) and red on port (left), he is wearing red on starboard (right) and green on port (left)
whiteheron over 8 years ago
The kid better stand to the leeward. Frazzâs running clothes and all that.
57-Don over 8 years ago
Easy to remember â port has 4 letters, left has 4 letters if you just remember that port wine is red everything falls into place
Ichabod Ferguson over 8 years ago
Easier still; the port light is red just as port wine is red.
sandpiper over 8 years ago
Then why arenât auto signal lights red for left and green for right??
atajayhawk over 8 years ago
I learned, âStarboard shines green and port is glowing red,â from a song in Girl Scouts. To confirm it (years later) after an argument, I asked an American Airlines pilot. His reply: âOf course port is red. The pilot is always in the red light district!â
Uncle Bob over 8 years ago
Red at night, sailorâs delight. Green in the morning, sailorâs been pouringâŠ
nossmf over 8 years ago
âThereâs no red port wine leftâ
tahoeh2o over 8 years ago
He doesnât know his stern from his aftâŠ
Fido (aka Felix Rex) over 8 years ago
Of course, the next point of discussion should be about POSH (Port Out, Starboard Home)
magnus over 8 years ago
I always thought hearing aid salesmen were daft because they have the color coding backwards, until I looked at my audiologistâs 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.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 8 years ago
If 2 ships or 2 planes are approaching each other at night, green is the âgoâ side, red is the âstopâ 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 donât only drive on the left side, they walk there, too.
terrym1986 over 8 years ago
âRed Right Returningâ â 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.
Sportymonk over 8 years ago
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!!!!
Chamfer over 8 years ago
The whiskey is on the table, so port must be left.
Ncorrigible Premium Member over 8 years ago
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.
Ncorrigible Premium Member over 8 years ago
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.
rekam over 8 years ago
well, now thereâs no red or green so thereâs nothing to complain about.
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 8 years ago
OK, hereâs 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 âsteerboardâ that hung off the aft right, because thatâs easier for a right-handed steersman. Because of that, you came up to the dock with it on your left side, so you wouldnât accidentally smash your steerboard, so the left side became the âportâ side.
Or at least that was the way I was taught.
I once saw a bumper sticker that simply said, âStarboard wine is green.â
Kev_a_Swing_Dancer Premium Member over 8 years ago
I am ridiculously naĂŻve for not double checking the colors when I havenât 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 âright is redâ; ..but thatâs 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.
hippogriff about 8 years ago
And the rule for seeing both red and green: âIf two lights you see ahead, put your helm and show your redâ and the vessels pass safely rather than crashing head on.
mid_life_crisis over 6 years ago
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 thatâs the way it works in the States.
DKHenderson 3 months ago
All red and green aside, the first panel is WAY COOL! I wonder how he draws that.