Talk:Cockpit (sailing)

This heading is misleading. Judging from the text, this Naval term 'cockpit' refers to something different from the cockpit of a powerboat or a sailboat, where it refers to the place where the wheel is.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dickpenn (talk • contribs)

It depends - cockpit was originally just the open space where the rudder was operated.

When multidecked ships started to be built, the whipstaff was moved 'upwards', on the (new) weather deck, but the original cockpit area remained structurally distinct and later was used as living quarters for midshipmen and even later for surgeon's mates.

So today's small sailing ships' cockpit is just the original meaning of the word - the problem is how to put it in the article somewhat comprehensively, as the latter meaning is the newer one, but no more in use.-2A00:1028:83BE:5492:78DC:717E:350C:2E74 (talk) 12:19, 25 March 2016 (UTC)