Deck Beam

[jddevel]

Deck Beam. In my research for my sailaway I`ve read of a part of the boat referred to in a number of topics as a Deck Beam. I`ve searched for this on line but unable to find a definition especially a picture. Can someone please help? Thank you

[WotEver]

 

noun

1.

(nautical) a stiffening deck member supported at its extremeties by knee connections to frames or bulkheads

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition

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Historical Example:

The lantern still swung from a deck beam, but the water had risen in the cabin so that his descent was prevented.

Edited September 8, 2016 by WotEver

[magnetman]

Someone will know for sure but I think the deck beam on a narrow boat is the beam against which the cratch stands.

(Sometimes the cratch will be on top and sometimes in front.

[Chertsey]

It's the bit in the foreground here:

 

 

And the thing that sits on it is the deckboard.

The cratch is the covered part behind the deckboard.

Edited September 8, 2016 by Chertsey

[WotEver]

That's a nice piece of new oak you have there on the port side.

[Chertsey]

That's a nice piece of new oak you have there on the port side.

Thank you. Made by Pete Boyce, five years ago now.

The cant on the other side is mahogany, probably dated from the late 70s, and was in good enough condition that it didn't need replacing.

[ditchcrawler]

What about that lump some builders put across the roof just in front of where the engine hole should be.

[dave moore]

That is s stop beam, not a deck beam.

Dave

[Chertsey]

I thought that was a back end beam

 

 

(here being coaxed into shape)

 

Perhaps only if you've got a back end?

Edited September 8, 2016 by Chertsey

[WotEver]

Thank you. Made by Pete Boyce, five years ago now.

The cant on the other side is mahogany, probably dated from the late 70s, and was in good enough condition that it didn't need replacing.

 

He did a nice job. Finding a decent piece of FSC mahogany that size these days would prove a challenge.

[ditchcrawler]

Yes but modern leisure boats, even ones with rivets don't have Back Ends so I just wondered if that is what modern fabricators are calling them.

fat Finger edit

Edited September 8, 2016 by ditchcrawler

[WotEver]

So what's a 'back end' then?

[WotEver]

 

If a Stop Beam is in front of the engine 'ole and the back end beam is in front of the back end... what's a back end?

[WotEver]

And while I'm asking, Cratch is the sunken area behind the Deck Beam - so what's the area in front of it called? And which bit is the 'deck'?

[ditchcrawler]

So what is the fabricator really talking about?

[magnetman]

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Edited September 8, 2016 by magnetman

[Chertsey]

So what's a 'back end' then?

It's the back end of the hold

 

And while I'm asking, Cratch is the sunken area behind the Deck Beam - so what's the area in front of it called? And which bit is the 'deck'?

The area in front of the deck beam is the deck.

[jddevel]

Thank you Chertsey especially for the time to have taken the pictures. I also wonder viewing some of the points made whether "local" expressions or descriptions have filtered into the language. I certainly have experienced that in other walks of life.

[Chertsey]

No problem, they're old pics and I just searched for them on my blog.

 

I would be interested to hear from Dave whether 'stop beam' is another name for back end beam, or if it relates only to that position on fully cabined boats.

[dave moore]

I've always known the transverse piece as a stop beam, but I've no idea where I heard that from, I could well be wrong. Wearing my pedant's hat, modern boats don't have a cratch as such. The triangular board was known as a deckboard by working boaters whilst the lowered deck behind on modern boats is, to me, a well deck not a cratch.

 

Dave

[magnetman]

technically correct but I would suggest if one were to randomly stop say 20 boaters and ask them what the cratch is of those who had heard of the word a majority would think it was the triangular vertical board which is traditionally called the deck board.

 

 

(Long sentence !!)

Edited September 9, 2016 by magnetman

[WotEver]

It's the back end of the hold

 

 

The area in front of the deck beam is the deck.

 

Thanks

[ditchcrawler]

So what on a modern boat do you call these beams that cross the roof?

[RLWP]

So what on a modern boat do you call these beams that cross the roof?

 

Trip hazard?

 

Richard

Edited September 9, 2016 by RLWP

[dave moore]

It's a stop beam.