lbgraves
Little Cinderella's Mommy
- Joined
- Feb 25, 2003
Tonyas Skipper, is it called portside because that's how you enter the SHIP upon embarkation and does it stay that side the entire cruise? Or does it depends on docking. Then what's the other side called?
We boarded on the starboard side of the ship in LA and Vancouver.
I did google and found that originally it did have something to do with which side was docked to the port.
Port is derived from the practice of sailors mooring ships on the left side at ports in order to prevent the steering oar from being crushed.
The word starboard comes from Old English steorbord, literally meaning the side on which the ship is steered