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"Dave Stadt" wrote:

"Dave Buckles" wrote in message
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David Brooks wrote:
Easy way to remember. Take the three pairs of words:
left, right
port, starboard
red, green

The shorter words go together, and the longer words go together. You
could
probably add:
pilot, passenger (or pilot, instructor)

Alternatively:
"Red" and "Right" both start with the same letter. It would sort of
make sense for them to be the same side. Since we're dealing with the
FAA, we can't have *that* sort of logic running around, so switch 'em.

"Red", "right", "returning" works. It refers to keeping the red bouys on
the right when returning to a harbor. (simplified explanation) Doesn't do
much good in an airplane but the boat people did use some logic.

That only really works in Bouyage Region B, i.e. roughly the US and its
imperial dependencies :-). Doesn't do much good in the majority of the
maritime world, where keeping red bouys on the right while entering a
port or channel would be exactly the wrong thing to do.

You don't know how odd it was for me when I first sailed the Chesapeake
after a lifetime of sailing in Australia and elsewhere, where keeping
red to red is the absolute rule on entering a channel or port...

Hamish