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Where did the nautical terms "starboard" and "port" come from? Why does starboard mean right and port means left? And while we're at it...why is it called the poop deck? I've got a theory about that one...
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Port, as has been noted, is the side of the ship usually pulled up to the dock - or "port". The reason for always pulling up on the same side derives from the days when vessels didn't use a centrally-mounted rudder. Instead, it was common to use a side-mounted steering oar, which would be damaged if it came between the ship and the dock.How do you build a paddle boat?
The steering oar was usually slung on the right, there being more right-handed sailors than left. The oldest sailors of all were the Norsemen, who referred to the "steering side" "stýri borð".
Later, in Old English, this became "steorbord" - "steer side", and thus our present "starboard"
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Incidentally, port and starboard do NOT mean left and right. Those are relative directions, but port and starboard are absolute definitions of the sides of the vessel.... but, consider, if you stand at the bow and face back, port is on your right and starboard on your left.
(They are, in practice, defined from the viewpoint of somebody standing astern and facing the bow.)
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I will start with puppis and then come back to that in a minute. Now for the port and starboard. there was in the old days of, I guess I can say days of yore, that the right side of the ship was called starboard and the left side was larboard.. while yelling at each other at sea and with the wind blowing, larboard sounded a lot like starboard and it caused confusion, so the left side was called the port side. The Port side means the side of the ship where cargo is loaded while at the port. Now there is a clear difference between left and right and no one becomes confused.. Puppis is the term that poop came from. It defines the elevated rear deck that is above the puppis at the back of the ship. On some ships the helmsman guided the ships from the rear and it needed an elevated view so that the helmsman could see where the heck they were going. In english puppis is more easily understood as poop, thus the deck over the poop (or puppis) came into being. Of course the back of the ship was also a good place to put the head or john or any other unneeded material. It probably was a good place to poop so that it could easily be left behind and thats the poop, the whole poop and nothing but the poop as far as I can tell.. gotta go, man I'm poopedThe serpintine belt on my '02 merc inboard leaves rubber dust all over the engine compartment.?
Ian P is right about starboard. in old england most boats were built with the steering board on the right side of the ship in stead of a centeally mounted rudder. it just evolved from steerboard to starboard. I'll just have to trust him on the port thing.Redoing boat electrical wires?
Starboard as a term for the right side of a vessel stems from the old Norse mariners who attached their rudders (steering boards -star bords) to the right side of their ships. This was so that helmsmen could hold the tillers in their right hands while viewing forward along the ship's course. An old term for the left side of a vessel (opposite of Starboard) was Larboard (laar or leer being Norse/Germanic for 'empty', as in empty of steering gear). Since you'd moor your vessel with the 'clean' side of your boat against the pier or dock of the port, that became the 'Port' side.If i had 1400sq ft 8 in deep filled with water how many gallons do i have?
Old time sailing boats used to have a steering device on the right side. Therefore they had to come in to dock in port with the left side of the boat to the dock or port. So left was port. Steering board on the right side became starboard.The poop deck actually was the captains head(rest room) and the stuff fell behind. The crews head was at the bow because the boats were usually sailing downwind and they wanted the stink to go away. When a boat gets pooped, it means that a large wave came from behind and washed the poop deck.
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