Not easy parking a ship!! Celebrity Equinox docked amid many sailboats. Corsica, France...

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

Celebrity Equinox docked amid many sailboats. Corsica, France

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rlaugh Loc: Michigan & Florida

Rush hour...!!

nakipie223 Loc: Watauga, Texas

All those boats and not one person in sight! The ship must have frightened everyone.

Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC

In nautical terminology, we would say that vessel is "moored to the pier". A dock connotes something much smaller.

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

Thanks for the nautical lesson, Bob. I struggle with port and starboard!! :)

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

Bob Yankle wrote:

In nautical terminology, we would say that vessel is "moored to the pier". A dock connotes something much smaller.

Actually the "Dock" is the water space the ship sits in when at the pier or quay or in a slip.

CC183 Loc: Louisville

Rob47 would you allow me to give you a quick lesson in Marine terminology. You will never forget again. Simply remember this one rule:

Right is longer than left.
Starboard is longer than Port.
Green is longer than red.

If it's the longest word it's on the right. Shortest is always on the left.

There you have a simple memory crutch.

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

CC183 wrote:

Rob47 would you allow me to give you a quick lesson in Marine terminology. You will never forget again. Simply remember this one rule:

Right is longer than left.
Starboard is longer than Port.
Green is longer than red.

If it's the longest word it's on the right. Shortest is always on the left.

There you have a simple memory crutch.

Good one! In 60+ years of boating, I've never before heard that.

Jim
S/V South Wind

CC183 Loc: Louisville

The good news Jim is you will never forget AND you will always know you are correct. An old Salt shared that with me many years ago. So simple, yet so helpful!

Don

artBob Loc: Near Chicago

Bob Yankle wrote:

In nautical terminology, we would say that vessel is "moored to the pier". A dock connotes something much smaller.

Poor guy who sang, "Sittin' on the dock of the bay, ......"

Rob47 Loc: Naples, FL

CC183... Thank you for the simple nautical education. That rule is good to know. I'll now remember when I'm on a cruise ship, the "bar" is always on the left!!!! :) :)

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

CC183 wrote:

The good news Jim is you will never forget AND you will always know you are correct. An old Salt shared that with me many years ago. So simple, yet so helpful!

Don

Don,

Now all I have to remember is whether I'm under diesel or wind power and which set of Right of Way rules apply--power, sail, or both. :-D

In the final analysis, maybe it doesn't really matter because as I was taught, oh so many years ago " the ROW isn't something you have, it is something you are given." :thumbup:, and it's overshadowed by the unwritten "Rule of Tonnage" :idea:

ducwic Loc: Milwaukee, Wi.

CC183 wrote:

Rob47 would you allow me to give you a quick lesson in Marine terminology. You will never forget again. Simply remember this one rule:

Right is longer than left.
Starboard is longer than Port.
Green is longer than red.

If it's the longest word it's on the right. Shortest is always on the left.

There you have a simple memory crutch.

I think it goes like this;
Starboard, right, green
is longer than
Port, left, red

JB007 Loc: Southern-Colorado

ducwic wrote:

I think it goes like this;
Starboard, right, green
is longer than
Port, left, red

Man, (?) ...now I'm really confused!! :|

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

JB007 wrote:

Man, (?) ...now I'm really confused!! :|

The way I was taught, it was "Red right returning" or "Black to Port going back to port". Both work but if you're a "youngster" also remember that Black is now Green. (Ed. Comment: They both are damn near invisible at night.)

I don't remember when black became green; in the seventies' I think; no matter my boating long predates the change. :thumbup: