Port Starboard Left Right Red Green

[Pinecone]

Right. Pull to upshift is the convention in motorcycles, and in race cars with sequential gearboxes. Crazy to think that any manufacturer would get that backwards.

One of the first to do it, and get it wrong was Porsche. You would think THEY would get it right.

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

 

[flyingron]

Red on Right Returning

That refers to buoys. It makes no sense for identifying the running lights on either boats or aircraft.

I just remember that the short words go together:
RED-PORT-LEFT

and the long ones go together

GREEN-STARBOARD-RIGHT.