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(06-14-2016, 09:03 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: I've heard those that ride big ADV's mount from the Starbuck's side.
Very good Ferret. Hope you don't mind if I catch a ride with you and say it seems to be the favourite side for our local Ducatistis.
Cheers.
(06-14-2016, 09:07 AM)Lord Popgun_imp Wrote: (06-14-2016, 07:38 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: Sailor, I'm sorry you're not a super hero; it would have been good for popgun to have had company. I think sometimes he gets lonely.
What's the yacht in your avatar?
Edit Cormanus then reads Sailor's signature and realises the yacht is probably a 1986 Cape Dory 32.
Cormanus, I'll have you know that I am a legend in my own mind. 
He, Cormanus that is, already knows that I'm a legend in my own lunchtime*.
Cheers
*Thank you Wordsworth.
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I'm outta here! Too many legends for me.
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(06-14-2016, 08:36 AM)Pterodactyl_imp Wrote: ^^^^^. I take it you mount the boat pictured from the right side. Or should that be the Starboard side? If it's on a Starboard tack would you mount it from the Port side. I'm nautically confused.
Cheers
WARNING: this post may indicate that an oil thread has driven me into the arms of Bacchus.
I learned this many years ago when an ex-girlfriends dad taught me to sail (about all I remember now is that it's like tossing hundred dollar bills down the drain while standing in a cold shower......).
Anyway, when it comes to labeling sides of the boat, short words on one side, longer words on the other:
Starboard, right, green (as in navigation lights)
Port, left, red.
Easy peasy.
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Port is a wine. A proper sailor would call it larboard. Always deploy the mainstand from the larboard side of your motorcycle.
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(06-14-2016, 11:55 PM)Rboe_imp Wrote: (06-14-2016, 08:36 AM)Pterodactyl_imp Wrote: ^^^^^. I take it you mount the boat pictured from the right side. Or should that be the Starboard side? If it's on a Starboard tack would you mount it from the Port side. I'm nautically confused.
Cheers
WARNING: this post may indicate that an oil thread has driven me into the arms of Bacchus.
I learned this many years ago when an ex-girlfriends dad taught me to sail (about all I remember now is that it's like tossing hundred dollar bills down the drain while standing in a cold shower......).
Anyway, when it comes to labeling sides of the boat, short words on one side, longer words on the other:
Starboard, right, green (as in navigation lights)
Port, left, red.
Easy peasy.
Funny, that's exactly what I was taught as a teenager (learning on my tiny Bic cat in Newport harbor!), but have never heard anyone else ever refer to it that way!
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(06-14-2016, 08:36 AM)Pterodactyl_imp Wrote: ^^^^^. I take it you mount the boat pictured from the right side. Or should that be the Starboard side? If it's on a Starboard tack would you mount it from the Port side. I'm nautically confused.
Cheers
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AAARGGHHHHH Matey. I only wish the "yacht" was big enough to bring my CB from port to port, mega-yacht style. Not happening. The only 2 wheeler I could envision taking with me would be a folding bicycle. And I currently "board" the "yacht" from the port side (same as my CB) as that is the slip my club assigned me. Unlike the CB, I could equally board from the starboard side if needed.
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(06-15-2016, 12:12 AM)Ulvetanna_imp Wrote: Port is a wine. A proper sailor would call it larboard. Always deploy the mainstand from the larboard side of your motorcycle.
I don't wish to be picky, but a 'proper' sailor who referred to the port side of his vessel as 'larboard' would by now be in an advanced state of decomposition. I can't date it exactly, but it appears the usage changed in the early to mid 19th century due to problems caused by the similar sound of the words. ([url=http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/01/the-origin-of-port-and-starboard/]reference)
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(06-15-2016, 05:04 AM)Inhouse Bob_imp Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-UeB32sbts
He went for the starboard side.
Classic. Bit hard to get up from that and still look "cool".
Cheers
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(06-15-2016, 08:42 AM)Pterodactyl_imp Wrote: (06-15-2016, 05:04 AM)Inhouse Bob_imp Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-UeB32sbts
He went for the starboard side.
Classic. Bit hard to get up from that and still look "cool".
Cheers
Classic. Bit hard to get up from that and still look "cool".
Cheers
I expect it was hard to get up from that at all!
