[PUP] Full walk-around versus asymmetrical versus no walk-around

[John Marshall]

The only reference I can find is this:

(Note:  In sailing ships of long ago, the right side of the sailboat  
had a steering board instead of a rudder.  This side came to be called  
starboard.  The left side was always used to approach the port and  
thus came to be called port. )

So yes, there was indeed a time when port ties were the standard.

I think those days are long past.

John Marshall
Serendipity N5520

On Nov 12, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Ron Rogers wrote:

> A professional captain once told me that the port side presented to  
> the dock
> was the proper etiquette. Sure enough, I looked down from my daily  
> commute
> and saw Steve Forbes' Highlander moored port side to on the Potomac  
> in DC.
> However, I also saw the Queen's yacht moored starboard to in  
> Gibraltar (on a
> PBS/BBC documentary). What is the proper protocol or does it just  
> depend?
>
> Ron Rogers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Marks
>
> We also have a boarding door on the port side of the aft cockpit for  
> those
> rare occasions
> when we end up in a port side tie.
>
> Scott Marks
> N6403 SHEARWATER
> http://yachtshearwater.com
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