It is a normal passing where each vessel favours the starboard or right side the channel and the other vessel passes down their port or left sides. Depending on the area or person, it is called passing another ship 'port to port' or 'red to red' because each vessel sees the red sidelight of the other.
On the Lakes, mariners use the term 'meeting on one whistle' to indicate the same maneouvre since a short blast on the whistle has the meaning 'I am altering my course to starboard'.
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