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What is a deckhead?

What is a deckhead? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) The underside of a deck (equivalent to a ceiling).
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The differences between the deck, deckhead and a bulkhead are well known to most of us but when you try to explain it to your Mum or Dad you may not be so easily understood.
The gravity cooler is usually a grid of plain pipe covering the fishroom deckhead and sometimes extending down the sides and bulkheads.
The cabin sole to deckhead height, at the aft end of the cabin, is less than four feet and there is sitting headroom over the bunks.
When the stiffened side of a bulkhead or the deckhead is being insulated the area of each stiffener or beam should be obtained by multiplying its length by twice its depth.
Below is an image of the view across the main cabin, showing how the panels below the deckhead look after the job is done.
There is an opening hatch in the deckhead of this head to provide light and ventilation.

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