T&T: steering the dingy plus steering the boat

[Roger Bingham]

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>Which raises another interesting question. Steering wheels on larger
power boats seem to follow no pattern at all. They can be found to port,
centre, and to starboard.
> Although my impression is that US-built boats favour port or centre -
cars? - US-designed, but Asian-built boats favour starboard or centre.
I've often wondered why there >is no standard arrangement.

There is a school of thought that says the helm on the starb'd side is
preferable.
This assumes that a vessel closing from starboard (being the stand-on
vessel) is more easily seen and therefore avoided.

Just 2 pennies worth

Roger Bingham
France