Re: MtMan-List: direction?

[Tomactor@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/12/98 4:22:38 PM Pacific Standard Time,
kwesten@wyellowstone.com writes:

<< never heard either term - so if I'm wrong please correct)  But they use
 it in reference to the river banks such as a
 river might enter upon the larboard side.  My question is:  do their
 references to left and right change when they
 change direction in relation to river flow.  Is larboard (their left)
 when facing up the Missouri still their left when 

Hi, Kurt

I this case their reference point is their own boat not the river itself so we
have to know from somewhere else which direction they are traveling. Larboard
for left was discarded in favor of Port because it was too close in sound to
starboard.
Now what about the word POSH?

Tom