Meaning of "break down"

scrat_ali   Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:37 am GMT
I was wondering: what is the meaning of the "starboard" and "I can never get those right" in the following comic:
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2009/ga090723.gif
Thanks in advance
Rapp   Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:01 pm GMT
Sailors say "port" and "starboard" instead of "left" and "right". So Garfield is just saying that he has trouble remembering which is which.