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This post will be less confusing to English speakers if you replace "backboard" (presumably backformed from the German 'Backbord') with 'port'. :)
Which does raise the etymological question of why English has the Germanic starboard meaning "right, but on a ship" (German Steuerbord, Norwegian styrbord) but not the corresponding "left" - German Backbord, Norwegian babord. What's this "port" stuff?
I did.
The english language is messed up as usual.