Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
cloison de mât
English translation:
mast bulkhead
Added to glossary by
Miranda Joubioux (X)
Jan 8, 2007 17:40
17 yrs ago
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cloison de mât
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Ships, Sailing, Maritime
yacht-building
Hi folks,
OK, today we're shipbuilding (makes a change).
The hull (carbon/Nomex sandwich) is done, the deck has been moulded and the last 'skin' is ready to go on, and the'cloisons' (=bulkheads?) are on standby.
Next up, the *cloison de mât*... which "est essentielle et fortement échantillonnée [?] pour reçevoir les efforts du gréement [rigging, I expect] et reprendre un partie des contraines de la quille basculante".
Over to you - 'mast bulkhead' sounds dodgy to me, plus there'll need to be two of them (one each side) I guess, so I'm a bit, well, all at sea!
Over to you, landlubbers...
OK, today we're shipbuilding (makes a change).
The hull (carbon/Nomex sandwich) is done, the deck has been moulded and the last 'skin' is ready to go on, and the'cloisons' (=bulkheads?) are on standby.
Next up, the *cloison de mât*... which "est essentielle et fortement échantillonnée [?] pour reçevoir les efforts du gréement [rigging, I expect] et reprendre un partie des contraines de la quille basculante".
Over to you - 'mast bulkhead' sounds dodgy to me, plus there'll need to be two of them (one each side) I guess, so I'm a bit, well, all at sea!
Over to you, landlubbers...
Proposed translations
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| 4 +6 | mast bulkhead |
Miranda Joubioux (X)
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| 4 +2 | mast bulkhead |
Bourth (X)
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| 4 +1 | mast partition |
Sarah Gall (X)
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mast bulkhead
http://www.lerouge-yachts.com/multi_bois.htm
There's even a picture in this link.
http://www3.gurit.com/marine/cases_irc.php
http://www.farrdesign.com/333-2.htm
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Note added at 43 mins (2007-01-08 18:24:11 GMT)
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Another link referring to rigging: http://www.northshore.co.uk/index.php?p=htmlspecs/van38spec
There's even a picture in this link.
http://www3.gurit.com/marine/cases_irc.php
http://www.farrdesign.com/333-2.htm
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Note added at 43 mins (2007-01-08 18:24:11 GMT)
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Another link referring to rigging: http://www.northshore.co.uk/index.php?p=htmlspecs/van38spec
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Bourth (X)
: absolutely!
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Sarah Gall (X)
: Just had a horrible feeling I'd posted an idiocy and came back to check!
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yeswhere
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Graham macLachlan
: As I see it, this bulkhead doesn't actually strengthen the mast itself, it strengthens the hull at the foot of the shrouds
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Drmanu49
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Tony M
: Yes, runs athwartships, transmits the weight of the mast through to the keel, enabling greater rigging tension to be applied
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "many thanks - i wasn't far off then was I ;-)"
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mast partition
Cloison is indeed bulkhead but the cloison de mât divides the cabin area and provides added strength to the hull. The link below gives you a couple of pictures.
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Note added at 35 mins (2007-01-08 18:15:38 GMT)
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Should add it's so called because it's positioned under where the mast will be fixed. Echantillonnée I think is referring to the composite nature of the material used and yes gréement is rigging
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Note added at 35 mins (2007-01-08 18:15:38 GMT)
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Should add it's so called because it's positioned under where the mast will be fixed. Echantillonnée I think is referring to the composite nature of the material used and yes gréement is rigging
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Graham macLachlan
: you are exactly right in every way, however a sea-going partition is called a bulkhead
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Tony M
: As Mactrad says, your description is correct, except that on a ship it is called a "bulkhead"
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mast bulkhead
Plenty of ghits - enough to satisfy me - mostly references in passing, but this one refers to the associated "strategic high load areas" near it.
The yacht's hull was fabricated from 1/8 inch thick cedar laminates. Each layer got epoxy glued ninty degrees to each other and wraps around to include the deck, in essence creating a structure that is a continuous and seamless sheet of wood. Strategic high load areas near the MAST BULKHEAD and the keel are reinforced with carbon fibre between the laminates
http://www.boats.com/listing/boat_details.jsp?entityid=14655...
I suppose having two of them distributes those forces to the hull better.
The Encyclopédie Visuelle Bilingue Marine d'Hier et d'Aujourd'hui (originally a Dorling Kindersley book) does not have this term but gives :
cloison d'abordage - bulkhead stiffener.
The yacht's hull was fabricated from 1/8 inch thick cedar laminates. Each layer got epoxy glued ninty degrees to each other and wraps around to include the deck, in essence creating a structure that is a continuous and seamless sheet of wood. Strategic high load areas near the MAST BULKHEAD and the keel are reinforced with carbon fibre between the laminates
http://www.boats.com/listing/boat_details.jsp?entityid=14655...
I suppose having two of them distributes those forces to the hull better.
The Encyclopédie Visuelle Bilingue Marine d'Hier et d'Aujourd'hui (originally a Dorling Kindersley book) does not have this term but gives :
cloison d'abordage - bulkhead stiffener.
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Graham macLachlan
: As I see it, this bulkhead doesn't actually strengthen the mast itself, it strengthens the hull at the foot of the shrouds
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Or transfers force (an awful lot of it) from the mast to as large a structural area as possible.
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Tony M
: Yes, runs athwartships, transmits the weight of the mast through to the keel, enabling greater rigging tension to be applied; in the past, sometimes used to be just a stanchion, but also takes horiz. strain as well
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Marvellous word, "athwartships"!
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