What do you call the..

[Supercat568]

Originally Posted by Sailmonkey

If we’re discussing the thing on uma, it’s more like a solar Bimini.

The stern pulpit refers to the railing behind the cockpit to keep the humans in.

Anything that arches over the cockpit is not a pulpit.

Solar bimini, I like it. And you're correct, I did kind of extend the pulpit in my head when the pulpit is only what it attaches to. Much more descriptive, thank you for the input!
What are your thoughts on the sailboat Uma? I really think they did amazing work aesthetically and otherwise. All except for one thing. They removed some portion of one or more of the bulkheads. I remember him saying "they're not structural or anything" or something along those lines. And the next time they pulled the boat out of the water they had cracks in fore and aft of the keel. That made me wonder, so I did some research. Holy macaroni there are significant forces all over the place on a sailboat! Everything is important. From what I read, the bulkheads help the hull resist twisting, they do do something! I think that boat might be a little bit compromised, but I don't know. I did say might be, not is. What do you think?

[Sailmonkey]

Originally Posted by Supercat568

Solar bimini, I like it. And you're correct, I did kind of extend the pulpit in my head when the pulpit is only what it attaches to. Much more descriptive, thank you for the input!

What are your thoughts on the sailboat Uma? I really think they did amazing work aesthetically and otherwise. All except for one thing. They removed some portion of one or more of the bulkheads. I remember him saying "they're not structural or anything" or something along those lines. And the next time they pulled the boat out of the water they had cracks in fore and aft of the keel. That made me wonder, so I did some research. Holy macaroni there are significant forces all over the place on a sailboat! Everything is important. From what I read, the bulkheads help the hull resist twisting, they do do something! I think that boat might be a little bit compromised, but I don't know. I did say might be, not is. What do you think?

Haven’t watched enough of them to know what they’ve done, but almost everything inside of an older sailboat is a supporting structure.

On our boat, the v-berth bed base and the shelves above the berth serve to stiffen the hull and prevent oil canning. They’re shelves secondarily.

The bulkheads around the mast and chainplates keeps the hull from going Taco when rigging tension is increased, as well as preventing the mast from being pushed down into the boat.

The aft bulkhead again is there to hold the hull shape.

The cabinets outboard are heavily glassed into the hull, these are stiffeners before they’re cabinets.

[AlanR]

Left is a confusing term. If you are facing each other, your left is his right. Of course, the same is true of 'right'.

Port is on the left, IF YOU ARE FACING THE BOW. Similarly for 'Starboard.

The difference could be criitical!

[Pat_D]

Boom gallows...

[MicHughV]

sometimes, when all else fails...." thingamajig" works fine...

while not found in general nautical vernacular, I can assure you, that there has been many a time on my boat, when some or other girlfriend wanted to know what that "thingamajig" was for..no explaining could rectify or change this choice of descriptive verbage. Once an item became a thingamajig...it remained a thingamajig...though in time it became a " thingy"...progress....of sorts.....

[Tonali99]

Originally Posted by SV__Grace

If the boom rests on it, you're looking at a Boom Crutch.

Really? And mine has been sitting at the gallows for so long ...
I suppose a pardon may be in order.

[jeepers]

Originally Posted by SV__Grace

If the boom rests on it, you're looking at a Boom Crutch.

Is that the same as Boom Gallows?

[Tonali99]

Originally Posted by jeepers

Is that the same as Boom Gallows?

The crutch is for one with a handi cap.
The gallows is for one that has been very bad.

[Bloodhound]

Originally Posted by Sailmonkey

Radar arch?

Stern arch?

Boom Gallows?

[jeepers]

Originally Posted by Tonali99

The crutch is for one with a handi cap.
The gallows is for one that has been very bad.

HaHa, Right you are..
Wife Gallows it is.
Or was it the "Stocks"
Anyways, a good place to use the "Cat".
Arrrr

[Sea Robin]

Boomkin or poop-deck. hehe

[SailMoonShadow]

Originally Posted by Supercat568

I watched this documentary, it's absolutely fascinating. Makes me realize how tough men used to be and how soft most of us are now. These men were men, sailing a square rig 16 million pound (8000 ton) cargo ship around cape horn every 90 days. It's the only film of its kind. I'm not sure if I'm committing an offence by putting it here? The narrator was inn his 80s when he narrated but a young man when he shot the film footage.
https://youtu.be/9tuTKhqWZso

That was, as you say, fascinating! thanks for sharing

[dfelsent]

I’ve always called the fixed arched thing a boom sits on a gallows and a notched removable thing a crutch.

[Supercat568]

That makes sense. Most manufacturers wouldn't add massive wooden structures... just because.
Thank you

[Kaimana]

If it's up in the air, has two legs that come down to the deck, one on starboard and one on port, and the boom comes down on top of it, it's called a boom gallows.

If it's got a single post and a padded half-moon "seat" on top, it's a boom crutch.

If the boom stops short of it and it has a radar on it, it's a radar arch.

If it's got canvas on it, with windows and such, it's called a dodger.

If it's made out of stainless steel at knee-to-thigh level, it's called the stern pulpit.

If it's on a real ship, with square sails and such, made of wood or steel, and about waist level, it's called the taffrail.

With Warm Aloha, Tim