The windward side of a boat. The side you put the nets out on. It doesn't necessarily mean starboard, but you'd try to turn the boat so that the starboard side was the windward side. The opposite side is Bord Fuithi, which means below the wind.

Some fishermen still pull out the helm of a boat and inscribe the sign of the cross in the sea with it before leaving port.

Cailleach has many meanings, including a stone with two stout sticks tied to it that was used as an anchor.

There's a long description of this mantra like protection prayer in the Ceathrú Thaidhg Mayo page. It was known in Connamara too.

A stone anchor. Táimid ar moráite (or moráilte) to be anchored while fishing.

A small cove or inlet; also, low-lying land along creek or river. It offered shelter in rough weather. It can also mean a root, of bog timber, or a stump, as in the phrase: is maith do bhuille tua i gcrompán (you know an axe into wood well). In other words, I admire your work, your strength of arm.

Frothing foaming water, also referred to as bláth bán ar gharraí an iascaire (white flowers on the fisherman’s garden).

Flotsam and Jetsam. Timber, rubber and big balls of fat were regularily washed up on the shore. Uses were found for all.

The direction from which sounds carried in the air were predictions of incoming weather, up to a week in advance.

Swans flying flow off the hill, whirlwinds on a bog and clouds sloping west off the 12 Bens all predicated types of weather.

Lee-side of a boat, port side. It’s the opposite of Borda na hEangaí weather-side, (starboard), which is the side that nets were always released from. Bord can also mean the space advanced by a boat in two tacks, with each tack called a leathbhord. (Also said as Bord na Sceataí.)