Do you say pass it to port (or left) or leave it to starboard (right)

[AliM]

It's always "go that side" when I'm involved, because particularly in a crisis, I have great difficulty telling my right from my left, and port and starboard are no better. My partner is better, except when he's driving in Europe or the USA when he tends to reverse them. So when either of us is driving, it's "go my side" or "your side", and when on the boat, it's "that way" with an extravagent gesture!

It might not be what written in the textbooks, but it works for us.

 

[James_Calvert]

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Cars have an unambiguous left and right hand side, but bits of road furniture do not. So "Keep Left" obviously means steer to the right.

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I think you meant the other way!

When I was a lad - the bollards in the middle of the road which were marked "KEEP LEFT" were intended to keep you to the left side of the road.

Steering to the right would have the opposite effect - unless of course you were describing which way to push or pull a tiller (another survey anyone?)

 

[cliffordpope]

Sorry, I was being heavily sarcastic to illustrate the nonsense of some of the arguments above.
By analogy, as the bollard does not have a left, "keep left" can only mean keep on your left, not to its left!

 

[RAI]

I prefer:-

"Left hand down a bit".

In good HMS Troutbridge fashion.

 

[James_Calvert]

Fair enough. You caught the thread's pedant - just wish it wasn't me!