: Left = port Right = starboard

: In other words -- left is your left as you would be sitting in the boat,
: looking forward to the bow.

: Julie Kanarr... who is ambidextrous and normally writes left-handed, and who
: still remembers being confused for weeks as a first grader when the
: teacher described "right" as "the hand you write
: with." uhh.....

How Curious.! I had the same dificulty as a small child. Everyone kept taking the pencil out of my left hand and telling me that I must use the right. I am now ambidextrous(?). My feeling of this is: We were all born right handed, but, a select few of us actually got over it. :) Just a thought.....

Rehd