Upper is not lower; upper is never lower

[Jim M]

When you have a great googly thing like a Volkwagen fuel pump in your hand, which is the front? The part that goes towards the front of the car. Which part is the top? The part that goes towards the top of the car. If the car is upside down, inside out, underwater. If you turn over a fuel pump in your hand, does it get a new front? No. If you throw it in the air, is the side that it lands on the bottom? No. If you take it on a spacewalk and spin it like a top and release it, so that it oscillates as its orbit around earth decays, the front is still the front, it is always the front, and the front is the part that goes towards the front of the car.

When you build a boat upside down, the keel is not above the sheer. The keel is below the sheer. Same as if you build it right side up. The keel is always below the sheer.

In boats, things are given names, because confusion is unseamanlike, because confusion can cost a lot, even lives. Therefore upper never means lower.

[JimD]

That's good to know, Jim. Thanks for the tip
jimd

[JimD]

PS - Jim, I'm thinking there may have been a time in your life when the difference between upper and lower may not have been as clear to you as it is now, in the aftermath or your confusion. Is there something else you would like to share with the forum?

[G. Schollmeier]

I’m sometimes still confused even with all the time I spend here. For example I still put sheets on my bed.
Gary

[JimD]

Originally posted by G. Schollmeier:
I’m sometimes still confused even with all the time I spend here. For example I still put sheets on my bed.
GaryI gave that up years ago. Could never tell the top sheet from the one that goes on the mattress. And the bed plans were no help, either

[Ron Williamson]

At the nuke,just down the road there are two identical plants,A and B.A obviously came first,but when they built B,they used the same blueprints.This is fine except that B doesn't face the same direction as A.Sooooo...North on the plans,IS NOT NORTH. :eek:
R

[ken mcclure]

Um, I think I'd like to hear what prompted this post.

I think.

[Jim M]

Frequently in boatbuilding writing you will encounter a reminder at the end of a lengthy section that upper means lower. At the END of a lengthy section, dig? So whatever image you were able to construct is wrong and you have to start over.

In keeping with the general bassackwardness.