No your not alone
AustinG

I'm not alone😀

Praise Poseidon!!

Thought I was right with steam bending being the option, surprised that I was evidently wrong as well. Must try harder 😂

I was suprised when steam bending wasn't the right answer....

Thank you Colin. I knew something wasn't clicking well in my head.

Well today's question is not right, planking is the placing of the planks on the boats framework, be it deck or hull.
The process of bending the planks is totally different and the only correct answer offered was steam bending .
Cheers Colin.

two in Australia as well ? or very clever folk down under

Hi Stephen (Fireboat),
I like the way you've rearranged the Quiz Scoreboard and Home page👍
I was about to complain that it had vanished from the Quiz thread.
Cheers, Doug 😎

Actually there are two Stephen, 'Mortan' and 'Sypsp', but neither has posted anything yet.
Cheers, Doug😎

https://model-boats.com/members?country=FO&username=

is there only one member in the Faroe islands

Thank goodness we have Titanic as an option! Chap knows were he is when there is a comfortable option.
Roy

Hi also a bit off topic but many years ago Model Boats magazine put a featured model on the cover. It seems the Graphics designer did not like the orientation of the model and 'turned' the model around photographically (lateral inversion) and we had a boat with red navigation light on the right and presumably green on the left.
Roy

Slightly off topic just seen RNLI website from Guardian Newspaper report but the collection 18 Oct 2022 on Channel news particularly volunteers report really got to me. As retired Canadian Aux we never had to put up with that abuse.

AustinG

I have seen steering wheels in boats here in Canada on port, Strd and center. Power is on either side but sail normally center. Think it may be same in USA.

AustinG😊

I completely agree, Nick
The vessel never changes sides.
Trev

Portside light is allways red, Starbord is allways green regardless of which way you look at it. Here in the UK, the steering wheel is on the right, in USA it is on the left, the wheel is allways on the left or the right, depending on country, it doesn't swap sides according to which end of the car you view it from...

But the question re North Channel is a good example of different countries . 🤔.

I love a good Discussion/ Debate👍
Thanks Nick😊
Trev

Starboard Side Since it applies to the Vessels Starboard Side.
As I interpreted the question It pertained to the person not the vessel.
I think it was a clever question that was open to interpretation, thus providing a forum for debate
Trev

I only have an issue where answers to questions are totally wrong. Where the question comes from foreign lands and have a different meaning for answers.

So if you order a vessels item that is specific to one side looking backwards from the bow, and it's for the starboard side. Which side do you order?🤔

Nick D
That is all well and good.
However if one was off the vessel and facing the bow of said vessel the individual facing the vessel would have the vessels starboard on the individuals left and the port side of the vessel on the individual's right. Just common sense.
Trev

NickD thank you for your post regarding port and starboard. Very interesting and informative.😉

WIKIPEDIA

The North Channel is the strait between north-eastern Northern Ireland and south-western Scotland. It begins north of the Isle of Man, where the Irish Sea ends, and runs north-west into the Atlantic Ocean

Nick D, I agree with everything you said!

I would be more concerned about watching my step and not falling in the drydock..😂😂😂

Read my reply regarding the definition of Port and Starboard.

What if you are on land looking at the vessel bow on while it is in dry dock?

In Navigational rules all direction are given assuming the captain or helmsman only has the Ability to steer the vessel of any size is actually aboard said vessel, therefore going forwards it is Starboard (Right).....

People also ask
Is starboard the right or left side?

When looking forward, toward the bow of a ship, port and starboard refer to the left and right sides, respectively. In the early days of boating, before ships had rudders on their centerlines, boats were controlled using a steering oar.
Why do ships use "port" and "starboard" instead of "Left ... and Right
Why is port left and starboard right?
The word 'starboard' is the combination of two old words: stéor (meaning 'steer') and bord (meaning 'the side of a boat'). The left side is called 'port' because ships with steerboards or star boards would dock at ports on the opposite side of the steerboard or star.
Ships can dock on either port or starboard side, depending on the layout of the port itself, the direction you are sailing in, and individual government regulations about how cruise ships can be arranged on a pier. It's also often at the discretion of the captain to choose how to position the ship in port.
Why is starboard better than port?
If you'd rather see the sunrise while sailing south or east, staying on the port side is your ideal choice as well. Choose the starboard side for the opposite situation: sunsets are visible on southbound and eastbound sailings while sunrises are visible on northbound and westbound cruises.
As the size of boats grew, so did the steering oar, making it much easier to tie a boat up to a dock on the side opposite the oar. This side became known as larboard, or "the loading side." Over time, larboard—too easily confused with starboard—was replaced with port.
Thus the old saying for early cruise liners where passengers had one cabin out and a different cabin home, POSH = Port out Starboard home. Directions are never ever given with the crewmember paddling in the water infront of the vessel facing it, common sense really and no confusion. You could also say very difficult to order parts for a vessel if no one knew which was Port (Left) or Starboard (Right) to order the correct part.

Here's a thing, who knows the origin of the terms Port and Starboard?

The important thing is that it promotes Discussion !😊😊
Trev

This is Question time! What help do you want or expect?😊
I have a feeling we have had this question before as well.
I have so far found the whole idea a bit of fun including getting wrong answers as well.
We probably do not need to extend ourselves having done that already.
regards to all
Roy

Er, does this help Roy ?😉

I think we can assume that these questions are at water level.
Roy

If you are standing in a boat in the steering position, whether it be at the wheel or at the tiller, you will be facing the bow, For'ard and bow both tend to be in the same direction. Unless you are in a rowing boat of course. I guess it depends on how much information the quiz master puts in the question, where does the distinction between a question in a fun quiz and something akin to an A level exam question? A line has to be drawn somewhere...

I assumed standing outside the boat facing the bow.
If you were on the boat the question should read facing forward towards the bow.
How can you face the bow when on the boat?
Trev

I assumed standing in the boat facing the bow...

Another trick question !
Standing outside the boat, eg in front of it, facing the bow, the left side is starboard.
If you are on the boat facing the bow the left side is port.
So either both answers are right or they are both wrong. You choose ! 😉

Pass the Port around the table if there's any Left...

Always new North Channel being in Ontario Canada. Did it move?😊

Roy, rnli and coastguard use what 3 words. Or a fixed co-ordinates position. Otherwise I would be sunk. Always leave coarse and heading as leaving harbour.
Cheers Colin.

So if you said you were a boat trouble in the North Channel, I hope the rescue services would know where to go.
Just a thought.
Roy

I stand corrected, didn't study the charts enough, I concentrated on my fishing.
Cheers Colin.

Learn something every day

It does exist....

I've fished in the sea to the north and west of the Isle of man right across to Ireland with professional fishermen and its always referred to as the Irish Sea, never heard it referred to as anything else.
Cheers Colin.

the other sea ends at B..... I. F...... so i was told when we was on the waverley last some more knowledgeable than the captain might differ but he was Scottish!

I got it wrong last time....

How come I still got it wrong then?
Roy

We've had this one already.....