I place a boat north of my location on shore, I jump into the boat, the boat is facing backwards towards shore (south) rather than the direction I placed the boat to go away from shore, and I am facing east. Thus I always have to "face" shore, then turn the boat around to go away from shore.

Expecting: I drop the boat into water north of shore, I jump in, I'm facing the "forward" end of the boat (north) and ready to go in the direction I jumped (north) rather than exactly backwards (south) and facing at right angles to my intentions (east).