Port Side is Right side?

[Tractorat]

Once you get left and right figured out, you have to learn to remember if its "flag, idiot,, idiot, flag" or "idiot, flag,, flag, idiot".

 

[Jim W]

Discovery Channel; 100 years of Titanic



The narrator Bill Paxton mentioned **several times** that Port side is Right side and Starbord is left... ... .



Isn't that backwards??????



If so, wouldn't it be proper to get the facts correct if your producing a... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . documentary?

Isn't Bill Paxton and actor, and doesn’t he in CALIF?



Will there is your answer he works and lives in the Land of the Fruits and Nuts; that says it all.

Jim W.

 

[HBarlow]

A few years ago their was a Republican Party US senator from TN who was a physician named Paxton. The first name, Bill, sounds familiar. He was, for a short time, majority leader of the US senate when the Rs had a majority.

I hope it wasn't the same guy.

 

[JR]

Isn't Bill Paxton and actor, and doesn’t he in CALIF?



Will there is your answer he works and lives in the Land of the Fruits and Nuts; that says it all.

Jim W.

Bill Paxton played the role of the astronaut Fred Haise in Apollo 13 and he also played Wyatt Earps kid brother Morgan in Tombstone. Sure he was in a ton of other movies, but those are the 2 that sticks out in my mind.

Oh yeah, he also played the researcher guy on the ship that was searching for the gem or stone or whatever they were looking for in the movie titanic. That probably explains why he narrated the show on discovery

 

[BIGNASTY]

Once you get left and right figured out, you have to learn to remember if its "flag, idiot,, idiot, flag" or "idiot, flag,, flag, idiot".

Nothing at all except the captain wouldn't be able to say "abaft the starboard beam" he'd have to say "on the right side but a little toward the rear". LOL

I was in the Air Force we didnt worry about a little to the left our munitions were BIG ENOUGH if it was close it was gone!!!

 

[SierraRam]

I was in the Air Force we didnt worry about a little to the left our munitions were BIG ENOUGH if it was close it was gone!!!

We have the same things in the NAVY, but whats a tactical nuke amongst friends???

 

[Greenleaf]

Bill Paxton... ... he did play the part of Fred Haise who lived and worked right here in Mansfield Ohio at the Air Guard, prior to him filling the seat on Apollo one-three for Ken Mattingly.



Anyrate, this all sounds good, but with due respect to everyone, even Pete Toombs, I would have to call foul. You can't tell me that out of ALL the production staff/crew, script writers/ film editors etc. etc. that nobody... NOBODY cought this detail, not even once of all the times he said port side is right side and vice/versa??????? Not one person?



Directcor; "Ah,,,,hey Bill. Looking good buddy, but the PORT side is NOT the right side of the ship. Lets backup the tugboat and run throught that again" "Action"!



Was everyone asleep... ..... ??? Perhaps Bill Paxton was the only person who wrote/filmed/produced and edited this entire Discovery program... ... ... ... ... ... ..... ????

 

[HBarlow]

Perhaps . . . but I hold the opinion that essentially all leftists and 90% of all television talking heads are indeed that ignorant. They speak whatever is printed on a script.

 

[BoeingDiesel]

Having problems with remembering Port vs. Starboard?? Spend a few months with the crew…you’ll never forget.



Nickel in the grass to you Gunny Chapman.

porky

 

[Greenleaf]

I have looking into further documentaries about the sinking of Titanic and it would seem that in terms of Titanic, the Starboard side IS the left side. I would imagin that ships built over across the pond, they use terms Starboard and port, but they are opposite.



The folks who explored the ship with the robots also seem to agree that Titanic steered to the Starboard side (left) to prevent a head on with the iceburg.



If you watch the movie TITANIC (the one with Jack and Rose) they too portray the ship moving to the Starboard (left) to miss the head on w/ice.



I would assume that it is only in the US that we use the terms Port side for the left side and vice versa.

 

[JR]

Well... ... . their steering wheels are on the wrong side over there..... :-laf:-laf

 

[HBarlow]

I have looking into further documentaries about the sinking of Titanic and it would seem that in terms of Titanic, the Starboard side IS the left side. I would imagin that ships built over across the pond, they use terms Starboard and port, but they are opposite.

The folks who explored the ship with the robots also seem to agree that Titanic steered to the Starboard side (left) to prevent a head on with the iceburg.

If you watch the movie TITANIC (the one with Jack and Rose) they too portray the ship moving to the Starboard (left) to miss the head on w/ice.

I would assume that it is only in the US that we use the terms Port side for the left side and vice versa.

Nope, not true. I haven't seen the movie, don't watch Hollyweird movies, have no idea what terms the movie or documentary used, but when standing on the bridge, bow, or anywhere on a ship facing forward the right side is always the starboard side and the left side is always port. International rules for navigation are consistent among all seafarers. Nations that speak other languages probably use different words but they are translated into the same meaning or ships of one nation meeting ships of another would have no way of communicating intentions to each other. If you've never been on the bridge of a ship at night or in fog meeting other ships you may wonder what I'm talking about but it is a reality of navigating ships.

Nautical language, customs, and traditions are very old. Much of the US Navy's language, customs, and traditions were adopted from the British. They are the same.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Nope, not true. I haven't seen the movie, don't watch Hollyweird movies, have no idea what terms the movie or documentary used, but when standing on the bridge, bow, or anywhere on a ship facing forward the right side is always the starboard side and the left side is always port. International rules for navigation are consistent among all seafarers. Nations that speak other languages probably use different words but they are translated into the same meaning or ships of one nation meeting ships of another would have no way of communicating intentions to each other. If you've never been on the bridge of a ship at night or in fog meeting other ships you may wonder what I'm talking about but it is a reality of navigating ships.



Nautical language, customs, and traditions are very old. Much of the US Navy's language, customs, and traditions were adopted from the British. They are the same.

I dont know about the rest of you guys out in TDR land but I think this is the BEST READ from the Harvey Barlow that I use to know and think his words were worth reading!!!!!

THANKS HARVEY

BIG

 

[Tractorat]

I didnt see titanic. But if the ship moved to the left, the iceberg would then have passed on the ship's starboard (right). Just like if you put your car into a left (port) swerve, you would hit the telephone pole with your right (starboard) side of your car.

 

[BIGNASTY]

... ... IM SO CONFUSED PLEASE STOP THE WORLD FROM SPINNING #ad

 

[mwilson]

Nope, not true. I haven't seen the movie, don't watch Hollyweird movies, have no idea what terms the movie or documentary used, but when standing on the bridge, bow, or anywhere on a ship facing forward the right side is always the starboard side and the left side is always port. International rules for navigation are consistent among all seafarers. Nations that speak other languages probably use different words but they are translated into the same meaning or ships of one nation meeting ships of another would have no way of communicating intentions to each other. If you've never been on the bridge of a ship at night or in fog meeting other ships you may wonder what I'm talking about but it is a reality of navigating ships.



Nautical language, customs, and traditions are very old. Much of the US Navy's language, customs, and traditions were adopted from the British. They are the same.

To the right (starboard) is where Titanic hit the iceburg. You are correct, Harvey.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic



Mike.

 

[sarj]

Back in the football days, coaches always used gee & haw, which seemed to find the way into my signal calling on defense. All the bulls in front always seemed to get that right, but then none went on to be actors either. I still use the terms' cept when on my boat.

 

[HBarlow]

Old movies I saw or books I read indicated that old farmers plowing with mules used gee and haw terminology also. Apparently it worked well for mules but mules are too genuine to become movie or television actors or liberal politicians.

 

[Greenleaf]

It must be Hollywood that has this idea to manipulate the public into thinking the opposite is true. I thought it odd with the first program I watched and now I found two others claiming the same. That's whay I had to look it up in the dictionary.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Old movies I saw or books I read indicated that old farmers plowing with mules used gee and haw terminology also. Apparently it worked well for mules but mules are too genuine to become movie or television actors or liberal politicians.

Its not only Mules,oxen,horses but dog sled's that use the same terminology, Its not like they are that smart they just understand repetition time after time after time. Kind of like ????????????????????????????????????????????????? ahhhh never mind :-laf