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Well, God works in mysterious ways ...

The political notion of Left and Right really comes from the French Revolution and the Tennis Court Oath. At an assembly, which took place on a tennis court, half of the revolutionaries were really radical and wanted to kill the King and overturn everything — they occupied the Left side of the court. The other revolutionaries were less radical and were prepared to accept a constitutional monarchy — they occupied the Right side of the court.

The French Revolution was, I think, the first real socialist revolution. People are aware of the aristocracy being led to the guillotine, but many are not aware of how much the revolutionaries hated the clergy. The French Revolution was strongly against Christianity. The Left has been fighting God from the very beginning.

Perhaps this was all foreshadowed in the Bible.

In Rome, and other societies of the time, the word for a left handed person signified evil or untrustworthy.

To the best of my knowledge, there are at least two languages where the word for "left (handed)" doesn't have a negative connotation. One is Greek, ἀριστερά aristera, from which the word "aristocrat" comes. The other is Japanese, 左 hidari, which I once read somewhere is a reference, in the original reading (not the kanji character), to the rising sun on one's left when facing south.

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FWIW, the majority of seiners, would-wide even, I think, "set" their net circling to the left.

If using a throw-net I could see that right-handers, if they preferred facing forward instead of aft, could possibly have preferred casting the net over the left-hand (port) side, and that have become something of a tradition.

With right-hand screw propelled vessels -- the bow (front end) of the boat tends to naturally swing to the left thus typically requiring a bit "right" rudder to continually counter-act the natural effect of the blades acting differently upon the water (in final result) with a lot of that due to shaft angle (typically at least some amount of downward angle if considered looking aft along the shaft) and the rest being the water further away from the hull is more successfully thrown to the side opposite the descending blade (resulting in more force (of water? can I say 'force of water'?) being thrown to starboard.

Right hand screws will typically back the stern towards the left (port side) too.

I just went and looked it up. They call it propeller walk. I think that may have been a factor for why seiners most usually are rigged to circle to the left, and 'dry up' the net on the left (port side) of the boat.

Modern West Coast squid seiners will often have what they call a "dryer" on the starboard side, but that's for separating the water from the squid (or sardines, anchovies, mackerel, and sometime herring when further North) and so is term for a different "drying".