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title: Starboard side of a boat
description: Starboard is the right side of a boat when looking forward.
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## Which side is port and which is starboard?

![Starboard side of a boat](https://21118949.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/21118949/hubfs/courses/pcoc2021/images/starboard-hr-2.png?width=1100&height=619&name=starboard-hr-2.png)

### What is the starboard side of a boat?

**Starboard is the right side** of a boat when looking forward.

### How do I remember starboard? 

It is quite simple. There are four letters in the words PORT and LEFT so you can easily remember that the left side of a boat is the port side.

### [What color is the starboard side light of a boat?](https://aceboater.com/navigation-lights)

The **green light** indicates a vessel's starboard (right) side.

![port & starboard side lights of a boat](https://21118949.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/21118949/hubfs/courses/usa2022/images/images-transparentes/navigation-lights-hr.png?width=1100&height=800&name=navigation-lights-hr.png)

### [What color is a starboard buoy or marker?](https://aceboater.com/starboard-hand-buoys-upstream)

Starboard buoy = RED  

 

 

 

![What color is a starboard buoy or marker?](https://21118949.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/21118949/hubfs/courses/pcoc2021/images/starboard-hand-buoy.png?width=1100&height=912&name=starboard-hand-buoy.png)

### [Sound signaling to starboard](https://aceboater.com/sound-signalling-appliance-device)

1 short sound = I am coming to starboard, I take the right.

When I pass near another boat, I will maneuver by leaving the other boat on my left side as I pass.

 

 

 

![Sound signaling to starboard](https://21118949.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hub/21118949/hubfs/courses/usa2022/images/images-transparentes/one-short-blast-turn-right.png?width=1100&height=904&name=one-short-blast-turn-right.png)

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