Left and Right rely on the orientation of the person. So if I’m looking ahead at you, and you’re looking at me, my left is different than yours. However, port and starboard don’t change based on position of the viewer but the position of the vessel. Cuts out any ambiguity.
Like driver’s side and passenger side on a car. It doesn’t even matter where it was made and it will work out as long as they look for the steering wheel.
Still doesn’t seem necessary. Your orientation doesn’t matter if you always take the direction as if you were in the drivers seat (captains chair). It’s the same with cars, left side is drivers side, right side is passenger (unless you’re in one of those backwards countries, then left would be passenger, right would be driver, but it’s still the same side of the vehicle).
Your orientation doesn’t matter if you always take the direction as if you were in the drivers seat
Correct. And you would refer to that as something specific because if you just said left people might think that you are talking about your personal left. So you come up with short hand to mean the left when facing the front of the ship, and right when facing the front of the ship. The words that were agreed upon for this purpose? Port and starboard.
Left and Right rely on the orientation of the person. So if I’m looking ahead at you, and you’re looking at me, my left is different than yours. However, port and starboard don’t change based on position of the viewer but the position of the vessel. Cuts out any ambiguity.
Like driver’s side and passenger side on a car. It doesn’t even matter where it was made and it will work out as long as they look for the steering wheel.
*Except the McLaren F1 and probably a few others.
Still doesn’t seem necessary. Your orientation doesn’t matter if you always take the direction as if you were in the drivers seat (captains chair). It’s the same with cars, left side is drivers side, right side is passenger (unless you’re in one of those backwards countries, then left would be passenger, right would be driver, but it’s still the same side of the vehicle).
Correct. And you would refer to that as something specific because if you just said left people might think that you are talking about your personal left. So you come up with short hand to mean the left when facing the front of the ship, and right when facing the front of the ship. The words that were agreed upon for this purpose? Port and starboard.