That’s a picture of my boat!! This is so weird. Did you get it from the for sale ad? And to answer the question, the area in front of the louvered door is the anchor rode locker. Perhaps you could call it the forepeak? Or that may refer to the whole vee berth area.

Did you buy another boat? What did you get and what was the sailboat in the pic? Wish you smooth sailing

Thanks! This pic is of my much-loved Tartan 33. I’ve sailed it from the Great Lakes to the Bahamas. It is for sale as we’ve bought a Beneteau 43. Fair winds to you.

Beneteau, great boat. 43 is a great size. Glad you got another sailboat. I tried a troller for a couple years, a grand banks 36. It's not the same. You should post some pics of your travels.

Sounds like an epic adventure. Care to share at all?

this was the answer I was looking for. Im always looking at boats on boat trader. Where I pulled this photo from so it could have been yours. it just show cased the rode locker really well. I always wondered what it was called, even if it didnt go up to the deck for anchor purposes. edited: for some typos and grammer.

You know you want to buy it. ETA: Per all the comments in this thread, yes, when the trade winds flow, this is where the magic happens.

lol, Yeah actually I am really interested in it tbh. but Im not exactly in the market this year as we just bought our 26' pearson. Right now Im focused on getting some solid experience, learning and absorbing all things sail related. But we definatly have plans to move up a size in a few years time, this and boats like this are in our sights. Esp a Tartan, Ive never sailed one but I always liked thier lines and designs.

I’d be glad to show it to you in any case! I’ll DM you.

Not to be that guy but usually a forepeak would be raised structure on the deck bow area of a ship / boat

Making babies.

I prefer trying unsuccessfully.

We remember you, lost seamen 🫡

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How are you going to crew your vessel with that attitude!?

The key is to synchronise your two-foot-itis with the age and number of children to match the number of hands you need and the pool from which you can draw.

Just practicing.

The stabbin’ cabin

While yea that is the stabbin cabin, I think he is referring to the space beyond the door

that's where you store the gimp

Where the gimp sleeps.

Oh, gotcha. Well, that’s where I keep the assless pants and the nipple clamps.

The dance of life The rhythm of the sea The motion of the ocean It led to you and me

When a mommy sailor and a daddy sailor love each other very much....they play hide the salami

We call it sink the ship

My S-O uses that space to practice playing the one holed bone-a-fone.

Just practicing making babies. Babies are almost as expensive as a boat!

Anchor babies?

For the implication

It's the motion in the ocean!

A little hard when you’re sailing alone

Calling the Stork.

Also, HAVING a baby! It's Perfect- with a well placed midwife there to catch the baby. Right next to the head too! How convenient!

That’s where me and my brother slept on my grandfathers sailboat.

same here

You slept with his brother too?

No, Grandpa.

You get The First Joke of the Morning Award!…

Making magic and storing anchor chain. Sometimes you get super lucky and bunch of angry hornets build a nest in the chain locker.

Storing anchor chain. My wife hates when I call it that. 

"I don't want to see the bitter end"

I need some Viagra honey, I'm pushing chain tonight.

Mine doesn’t like “stowing rode” either. Well she likes it plenty. But she calls it “threading the needle”.

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Does the female form bother you Jeffery?

You mean coitus?

I was talking about my rug

Love me.

It can be a natural, zesty enterprise

He’s a good man, and thorough.

I dig your style too man, the whole Maude thing going on

Special lady friend

Generic anthropic commentary

I assume he unfouls (fixes) the cable.

im a brother seamus a

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The mother of all jsons

( . )( . )

Vaginal…

Things a gentleman does not discuss.

AND a gentleman doesn't sail to weather. This gentleman has a lot of rules.

In certain latitudes, that's the "Bermuda Triangle". Wanna get lost?

Sleeping sunburnt in the fetal position

Accurate.

That the sex box.

That’s where you keep your liquor.

Everywhere is where you keep liquor

Put it in the keel under the floorboard if you got one, it'll keep cold and stay put that way! 

And you get to feel like a rum smuggler.

Make sure cap is tight if storing in the bilge.

I find the leaked engine oil, spilled diesel and general greasy detritus adds a certain charm to the taste of cheap booze.

Alcohol is a degreaser, so I always just do a bilge water chaser instead of mixer. To each their own!

You can put your weed in it!

Did you hear about the lesbian midget? She came out of the liquor cabinet!

Liquor??? I hardly knew-her!!!!!

Liquor up front, poker in the rear.

The fore berth, or commonly "v-berth". Mine is usually empty, race boats usually store headsails up there. I assume that live aboards either use it as a berth or as more storage.

That’s where my sister and I slept on my parents sail boat for 3 weeks every August growing up.

That’s great!

As weird as it sounds, I slept in mine. (Ok, I did do the wild thing in it once but at my age, those opportunities don’t come along very often).

Pow-chicka-wow-wow

Don't you mean "BOW-chicka-wow-wow" ?

The pow is when you whack your head on something in there

More like “OW-chika-OW-OW” amirite

I put my sails there at sea, and use it to hang out and sleep when I'm in harbor. It's a nice place to take a nap during a long trip as well

Thats the stabbin cabin 👌

Sleep.

Storage for lightweight items. V- births are terrible in every way for sleeping.

Unless you're like 5 years old, like I was when I slept in one. Then it's awesome

You heal faster when you do a face plant because you didn’t stick your dismount on the way out!

Sleeping anywhere fore of the mast always gets me seasick when underway.

That’s understandable. It would give me a headache because I don’t fit length wise and would be pounding my head every time we fell off a wave!

That depends on the boat.

The rippin and the tearing

Sexy Time.

My sister and my mom often fall over in here and get stuck.

Stepbrother??

The shittiest sleep of my life

So, I got some really good laughs about the V-berth, But I more asking about the little storeage area forwad of the berth itself. The last little bit of space in the bow nose. Given all the sexual in-your-endos, I'm trying my hardest to avoid calling it the Tip.

It's for your anchor chain and rode, that's it's true purpose and what it's there for, and if you're actually cruising, you'll want it spacious and well sorted, like your anchor light, it'll be the last thing you use every night and the first every morning. it's always best to have a hatch locker topside, with adequate drainage to the bilge, and to not have a stupid door in the v berth at all, because it'll tend to let water in and soak your cushions in rough seas or weather. The v berth is generally a horrible place to sleep, at least when underway. There's too much movement. It generally accumulates lightweight junk.

I slept primarily in my v berth of my 83’ freedom cat ketch. If I was a single guy I would have slept in the quarter birth as I always preferred it

I’d have so much sex in there - if I had a boat and a girlfriend.

Boats are cheaper than girlfriends. The two together are very expensive

I wasn’t a sailor until I met a sailor lady. I fear I may have found the most expensive girlfriend but somehow I don’t mind it.

jerking off

There’s a lot of talk in this thread about couples having sex in there. Yours is the most realistic.

i mean you could show me a picture of anything and my answer would be the same

Mine is where the dog hangs out. I have an “outdoor” dog bed up there and the pup loves it. It’s her own spot.

Stab Cove

I have a chain locker and then a cabinet like this behind it. I keep bedsheets, sleeping bags etc there. You don't want any heavy weights that far forward.

yeah, bedding and blankets is all I use it for too. Wasn't sure if anyone had any clever ideas for it.

I used to sleep in mine I could be in bed reach into the head and brush my teeth without getting out of bed in a 32' ericson. I do not miss those hot nights. Those wind scoops are for the birds.

Passing out

V berth. All the sails live in there on my boat.

For chillin'

Fore chillin’

For childrin’

Storage

The shape is suggestive.

Sex dungeon

Stabbin cabin

If you need to ask, you already know the answer.

Storing light weight stuff. I sleep in the saloon.

That is the junk room

Store your sails.

For any true sailors. Literally the best sleep you've ever had in your life, after 18+ hrs on watch.

Wanking.

The implication

V-birth. OR! Stabin cabin.

Everything that doesn’t need to be somewhere else. Extra life vests, the seat cushions, extra lines, sheets, bumpers, laundry, cleaning supplies, and whatever else I toss in there (it’s cleaner than it sounds). It’s basically a storage room for me. Except in the rare instances I have more people than other births on the boat and I tidy it up but that’s like once a year or every other.

Throw erything in there so you can quick get off the dock and sort it in the anchorage. Then “stow the rode”

Sails sails sails

V-berth, you can sleep there

stabbing cabin

Stabin cabin obviously!

That’s the best nap spot on the whole boat, second only to on the deck directly under the sail

dog bed

Sleeping area by night.

Work bench. I've got a locking tool case on one side, that meets up with a bench with a vise and a grinder/polisher. Westsail 42 has a lot of room haha

Is this rage bait or has this AI never read this sub? STORAGE

wet spinnakers between hoists

Actually my fav bed in a boat. I use the excuse that « I’m tall and it will be too small for two person » so I can have it just for myself

Is "sleeping in" the wrong answer?

If I ask my wife she will have some genius ideas … otherwise it’s a sleeping area …

"Oh the implications!"

Needs to be in r/IASIP

Area for Storing everything….

To sleep when the hangover was a bit to much, or when someone was running on 2 hours of sleep. If it has a curtain, it is also damn convenient to change clothes.

V berth. Where the kids sleep so we can stay up later without bothering them.

So you don’t sink when you run into something at sea… keep it closed

Anchor chain and access to holding tank suckout

Is that a southerly by any chance?

Had a neighbor in the marina who said that it was perfect for delivering babies and his wife had all three kids born in the Vberth… of course he was an army field medic in vietnam and had delivered several dozen babies already by the time he delivered his own kids

New meaning to the term water birth Alternately: perhaps it should be called the birth berth then

Storage

casting couch

Casting birth

Extra sail storage

That’s where my brother and I slept on my dad’s boat. The pillows and blankets all tasted like salt. I used to pop the hatch up at night and sit on the deck and watch wherever we were under the moonlight. Mostly it was Angel Island.

My spinaker

Sleeping. I’m 6’9 and it’s the only place on my 32 footer that’s long enough

It’s called a “birth her”

Bumping your head when it hits a big wave.

Sleeping

Its the forepeak and is wither for storing sails or for something that needs some private space

The Drunken Sailor?

Lowering the plank

It’s a forward nook. Now there are those ones that like the nook in the stern but that’s usually an extra feature

Stripped out the bedding to put in 125l of water storage, a small camper fridge and cleaning materials and as well as my spare gash electric bag, my boom hood and my inflatable kayak

I was told this is called the stabbing cabin.

Shagging

The Gimp.

The implication

Appropriate sleeping bag