Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	AN EASY WAY TO REMEMBER RED LIGHTS
Date:	7/8/2014 1:55:56 AM

Both a car and vessel sides are defined from behind the steering wheel. It is confusing when ordering a car part for left or right side and how that is determined. It is determined from behind the steerng wheel. The drivers side is left and the passenger side is right.

An easy way to remember port and starboard is port and left have 4 letters. So, port is the left side of the vessel when you are behind the wheel.

As to the color of the light, port wine is red and the red light is on the port side of the vessel.

FROM BEHIND THE STEERING WHEEL

PORT HAS 4 LETTERS AND SO DOES LEFT

PORT WINE IS RED AND SO IS LIGHT ON THE LEFT (PORT) SIDE

You can always relate Green and Right to Starboard as they all have more letters than Red and Left and Port.

Name:	papatoon869 -	Reply
Subject:	AN EASY WAY TO REMEMBER RED LIGHTS
Date:	7/8/2014 10:22:31 AM

Well put, that's easy to remember

Name:	lakngulf -	Reply
Subject:	AN EASY WAY TO REMEMBER RED LIGHTS
Date:	7/8/2014 2:36:51 PM

But you and your wife are not always riding with me!

Name:	CAT BOAT -	Reply
Subject:	AN EASY WAY TO REMEMBER RED LIGHTS
Date:	7/8/2014 2:58:18 PM

Now I am really confused.  My steering helm is on the Port side of my boat.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	AN EASY WAY TO REMEMBER RED LIGHTS
Date:	7/8/2014 5:23:31 PM

You are easily confused. Are you the guy running around the lake with the lights on the wrong side of the pontoon?

Hope you guys had a great 4th.

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	AN EASY WAY TO REMEMBER RED LIGHTS
Date:	7/10/2014 9:14:42 AM

One very easy way to treat all crossing as if it were a 4-way stop on the road.  The vessel (vehicle) to the right has the right of way.  Everyone has or should have known this from about 15 years old or so.  One of the best answers I have ever heard came from a friend's son that was learning to drive the boat a few years back.  As we approached traffic coming from the right his Dad asked him who had the ROW. The son answered "they do".  Shortly after that we had approaching traffic from the left and Dad once again asked son who has ROW.  His answer once again was "they do" as he chooped throttle to allow the other vessel to pass becasue it was obviuos they were not going to give way.  If you use the childs defensive driving technique it never becomes an issue.

Name:	Aardvark -	Reply
Subject:	AN EASY WAY TO REMEMBER RED LIGHTS
Date:	7/11/2014 12:36:19 AM

I see hundreds of red lights going from right to left after the fireworks.  It is burned in my memory by now, as is the dumbest guy on Little Kowaliga Creek, and that would be Mr. Green Light going the other way.  Or maybe that is Ms. Green Light, the blonde who thinks everyone else is going the wrong way.  However, the four letter thingy did help me remember which side is port.

Name:	roswellric -	Reply
Subject:	AN EASY WAY TO REMEMBER RED LIGHTS
Date:	7/13/2014 7:12:17 PM (updated 7/13/2014 7:16:14 PM)

No wonder most folks are confused :-). What about Chardonnay?

I just remember the international channel markers "red right return" when returning up the channel. Red is stop, Green is go. Think about it.