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Although being a common or garden former marine engineer, I was always well up on ship's anatomy, but one question I could never get a sensible answer for was why the monkey island is so named. Anybody enlighten me ? <hr width=100% size=1>

If a vessel turns to port, and you fall over the port rail, [pissed or sober] it's a boat, if you fall over the starboard rail, it's a ship. <hr width=100% size=1>