The way I remember port from starboard:

by Billectric

Posted to Utterances on 2003-11-14 08:30:00

Parent message is 545266
port and left both have four letters. Starboard and right have more than four letters and I think “star-bright, star-board right.”

We used to send people for “pad-eye covers” and “sky hooks”, neither of which exist. great fun!