Anatomy of a Sailboat Part 3 – Below means learning an entirely new alphabet, as nearly every single item below has a completely different name than it does on shore!
I’ll just show you some of the main parts, and please post your questions and comments below!
Below, not… downstairs. Below.
Sole – the floor
Overhead – the ceiling
Galley – the kitchen
Head – the bathroom
Salon – the living room
Bulkhead – the walls
Settee – sofa
Cabin – the bedroom
We’ll start with an easy one – aft cabin, bunk. Not bed or bedroom.Aft cabin and vanity table.Forward cabin – V-berth; shaped like a V; often has an insert this end of the “vee” – on a really small boat, there might even be a head hidden beneath those two pillows… Galley. As in … galley slave! Basin (we don’t say that other word – it’s bad luck.) and stove. This sailboat even has a hood over the propane stove, an oven, to the left is a dish drying cabinet – see the plates in there? Also has a microwave that runs off shore power or the generator, and even a coffee machine that uses those little capsules. Below that is a deep freeze built into the counter on the left. The black area below is a freezer on the left, and a fridge on the right. Galley. Everything in cabinets and drawers that latch so things aren’t flying around.Aft head with shower separate from toilet.Forward head with shower to the right – separate from toilet.Chart table, VHF radio, tank indicators, air conditioning controls, and mini-electrical panel of the most-used items; water pressure, running lights, bilge pump and more. Closer view of the mini electrical panel. Shore power items to the right, house battery items to the left. Shore power panel.House battery panel.House and starter battery switches, electric winch circuit breaker, windlass circuit breaker.House and Shore power electrical panels.Main salon… saloon… Engine room, halon extinguisher, generator and engine fuel separators, water filters.Engine “room.”Engine room plaque.Through hull fittings; forward head macerator, head basin discharge, speed and depth transducers.Cleaning off the speed transducer. Plugs ready to replace plug with mechanical wheel during servicing. Closer view of transducers and thru-hull fittings. Do you know “open” from “closed?”
During a new-to-me-boat checkout, I like to start bow to stern on deck, then bow to stern aloft, then bow to stern below. For this series, Part 1 is On Deck, Part 2 is Aloft, and Part 3 is Below.
