The Old French word starboard came into our language as starboard . This is what the right sector of a boat or aircraft is called, looking from the back (stern) to the front (bow).
This means, looking toward the front of a boat, starboard is the right side . The left side, for its part, is called port . These names are maintained beyond the direction of travel.
These names are used in the field of navigation to avoid confusion. A crew member can walk across the entire surface of the boat: someone looking back, for example, will talk about the left, while someone looking in the opposite direction will refer to the right to refer to the same area. On the other hand, by defining the concepts of starboard and port, these misunderstandings are overcome. Starboard will always be the right side when facing the bow .
In addition to everything stated above, we can highlight another series of data of interest or curiosities about the term starboard that concerns us now, such as the following:
-It is established that to remember which side is starboard you can choose to use a song. We are referring to the popular composition that goes like this: “Star light, star bright, starboard is the right”, which can be translated as “star light, bright star, starboard to the right”.
-In the movie “Titanic” the word in question has a great role when at a certain moment the first commanding officer, William Murdoch, shouts to ask them to return to port: “All to starboard.”
To mark the starboard side, green signals are used; for the port side, red. Even at night, lights with these tones are used. In this way, when you observe a ship in the distance, these colors allow you to know if it is moving away or approaching.
The distinction between starboard and port, on the other hand, is also taken into account when numbering the objects carried on board. The elements located on the starboard side have odd numbers , while those on the port side have even numbering.
In the same way, we cannot ignore the existence of a wine whose name is the word that concerns us now. Specifically, Estribor is a wine that was created in 2016 in Cantabria and whose peculiarity is that it has been shaped to be able to pair with a typical product of the area, the famous anchovy. More precisely, it must be established that two boats were presented: Port and Starboard.
Babor is a red wine called “from the high seas and ship cellars” while Estribor is a white wine that is more associated with salting and fishing, since it has the characteristic of having a touch of acidity and also of be fresh.