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Her name “Blue Raven” is taken from Pacific Northwest Indian folklore about the ... On the port side is a horseshoe life preserver, propane canister bag, ... Inside the starboard locker, against the forward bulkhead, is a Blue Sea 120 ...
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On all boats, incidentally, the front of the boat is referred to as the "bow," the rear is the "stern," the left side of the boat, facing the bow, is the "port" side, and the right side is "starboard." Anything in the direction of the bow is "forward," while "aft" is toward the stern;
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Bow is the pointy end (also a forecastle pronounced fo'ksl) Port is the left side of the ship. A knot is one nautical mile per hour (read up on the folklore of this one it is interesting). ... The stern is the rear of the boat/ship, the bow is the front, the port side is the left and the starboard is the right. A knot can mean...
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Detailed accounts state there was a “fluttering” on the port side near the rear rudder—as if there were a gas leak. Another account states that the fire began on the under-starboard side at the rear, rather than upper-port side as others claimed.
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Center of gravity is important in loading the carfloat. Rasmussen draws on his years of experience in deciding how to load the float. Today, the outside track on the port side is loaded first, then the inside track on the port side, the outside track on the starboard side, and the inside track on the starboard side.
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I've been so busy the last few years trying to spike the spurious explanation of "posh" as an acronym for "port side out, starboard home" (supposedly describing the preferred shipboard accommodations of the wealthy) that I've never gotten around to explaining "port" and "starboard" in their own right.
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where port and starboard come from ... The actual origin of the term "port" is speculated to be because the left side of old merchant sailing ships had a loading or entry port. The right side had a steering board that hung over the side of the ship (before the invention of rudders) which is where the term starboard comes from.
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"PORT-SIDE" ; "STARBOARD" COMES FROM THE OLD ENGLISH WORD FOR THE PADDLES THAT VIKINGS USED ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THEIR SHIPS TO STEER: "STEORBORDS." IN THAT SPIRIT, THE LEFT SIDE BECAME "LARBOARD"-- FROM LADE, "TO LOAD" AND BORD, ... FOLKLORE HAS IT THAT THIS TERM FOR LIQUOR COMES FROM A PHILADELPHIA DISTILLER NAMED E.C.
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“Oh we go this way, / that way, / Port side, Starboard / over the deep blue sea.” In chunks of color Debbie Harter paints black triangles of hats, purple stripes of pantaloons, and gold circles of doubloons. ... Caribbean Pirates: A Treasure Chest of Fact, Fiction, and Folklore (Hampton Roads; 978-1-57174-541-5) prepared...
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