Puzzle Description:

Boat coming or going (I can't remember which way the red and green lights go)

#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on Aug 22, 2004

Hey, I'm just giddy to see people I don't even know entering puzzles here. Cool. Cool. Cool.

Is there a hidden religious message in the picture? :)

I *think* sides are as follows:
Port is red like Port wine.
Port has 4 letters like Left (when facing the front/bow).
Ship is going.

Fun puzzle Megan! Thank you :)
Thanks also to zandperl for the easy to remember definition of Port :D

Well done - thank you.

I enjoyed this puzzle. I always remember that the short words go together and the long words go together,
red, left, port
green, right, starboard.

Zandperl is close - port is left (use the four letter trick). However, the trick I learned as a kid when helping my Dad's friends on their fishing boat is "red right returning" so the ship would be coming towards us.

Nice image and took some effort to solve.

Port is red and stardoard is green, so the boat is going.

Nice puzzle!
I had to look it up...
Port is red and on the left of a boat.
Starboard is grenn and the right of a boat.
So, this boat is going away.
What Martin is talking about is a rule of travel direction where the reference is channel's color of "buoys".

Another great little puzzle...and a bit of knowledge to boot!

"Red right returning" refers not to the boat's running lights, but to the channel markers. So coming into a harbor, or upriver, stay to the left of the red markers (so the marker is on your right).

Do you know that the term "posh" was an acronym for "port over starboard home"? The upperclass didn't like to rise early so they wanted state rooms that were not on the sunny side of the ship...thus they wanted the port side on the trip out...and the starboard side on the trip home.

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