Back in the Navy, we were always toldTIDE IS TO and WIND IS FROM.I agree the old sailors made it tough on themselves and others.Way back in the Ancient Mariner days when they said "hard a port" they really meant
stern to port instead of the stem(head/nose to the land lubbers).Hence the
apparent error in the Titanic movie
.Yes, go watch it again and see which way the helmsman throws the wheel when the OOW (Officer Of the Watch to the land lubbers------sigh!!) orders hard a starboard.
Sorry, got off the subject a bit but could'nt resist a little bit of trivia.
