Thanks, boatstall, that makes sense. On another historical note, in the movie "Titantic" the order is given to steer hard to port to try to miss the iceberg but the helmsman turns the wheel to starboard (I might have it backwards). Being a smarty pants I pointed it out to my wife and said the director had made a mistake. Being more of a smarty pants she looked it up and found out that in the early ships the helmsman had to turn the wheel in the opposite direction he wanted to go (something about the rudder chains) and therefore the movie was right. It was not until automobiles became common and people got to use to their direct steering mechanism did ship manufacturers change the rudder linkage so the ship would go in the direction the wheel was turned.