Posted by Martin Honor on June 23, 2013 at 12:27:08 user MartinH.
In Reply to: Re: Right / Left posted by Martin Honor on June 23, 2013 at 11:36:44:
Thinking further about the subject (what on a Sunday evening!), I assume the steering oar was on the right-hand side because the majority of steersmen were right-handed. Pictures of ancient Greek and Roman craft always show the steering oar on the right, so this goes back thousands of years.