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[darcydodo]

Anybody who wants to explain port forwarding to me in layman's terms should feel more than welcome to. Ditto for making sure specific ports have outbound access.

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[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

Right.
You only ever have port after a meal, and it should have been decanted for a decent period beforehand. At the table, you always pass the port to the left- you're never allowed to pass it across the table or anything. If the port comes to you and you don't want any at the moment, make sure you pass it on to the person next to you- sitting on the port is very bad form.
If there are two specific ports going round the table, they should both start at different ends of the table. If they meet, that shows that the person they've met at is clearly sitting on the port too much.
Always use seperate glasses for different ports.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Damn, you got to it first. And did it better than I would have, too.

*restrained applause*

[darcydodo]

*hugs you twice over*

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

Got it the wrong way round first time tho :P

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

Well, not really "wrong".
It's just that I was using method B, where it's all to do with the *shape* of buoys, not their colour.

I'll shut up now.

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

Of course, the alternative post would have been:

Right, this is following the British maritime code. Not sure if the US sails on the other side as well as drives on the other side...

Basically, a river channel will have buoys marking it out. When inbound to a port, you should keep red buoys to your left ('port') and green buoys to your right ('starboard'). When outbound, do the opposite.

Some buoys such as the spherical mainly-red-but-with-a-horizontal-green-stripe buoys mean that you should treat them as a red buoy unless you have a shallow vessel and good knowledge of the area. Conical mainly-green-with-red-stripe buoys mean the opposite, obviously.

If you want to check the outbound access for a specific port, look at any decent up-to-date maritime chart of the area and it will show you the location and colour of all the buoys.