What would you call these shelves.

[KevinV]

To me a shelf on a boat is a thing with a fiddle , a locker is a space with a lid/door and a bin is an open vertical space - I'd call the ones pictured cubby holes

 

[Bouba]

To me a shelf on a boat is a thing with a fiddle , a locker is a space with a lid/door and a bin is an open vertical space - I'd call the ones pictured cubby holes

The curved surround is a fiddle...so by your definition they are shelves....and I would also call them shelves

 

[Daydream believer]

There's some rope and a pole in there so who knows what goes on in there.

The term " mistress" should be all you need to know

 

[Daydream believer]

In the absence of a suitable bed headboard they could be suitable places for the mistress to lodge her feet after wantonly discarding her under garments.

Then they would be foot lockers

 

[Bouba]

Then they would be foot lockers

Actually that isn’t a bad name

 

[Poodle Head Mikey]

What would you regard as the correct/most widely understood term for these shelves with plywood surround?

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(Not my image, BTW.)

TIA.

My son called them "cubbies" when he was small. I kept the term and still use it - although you are free to borrow it if you like.

 

[LittleSister]

We had something similar but smaller in the cockpit coamings of a previous boat. We called them 'toffee lockers'!

 

[Barnacle Bill]

I'd call them fiddles, kevinV probably knows better - does 'fiddle' just mean the bit of wood on the outside to stop things falling out?

 

[Mark-1]

We had something similar but smaller in the cockpit coamings of a previous boat. We called them 'toffee lockers'!

I've seen similar on a Sadler 32s. I've googled and I know what people tend to call those.
Mind you, one outcome of this thread is that I've decided that I prefer the obviously incorrect names to the plausibly correct ones.

 

[KevinV]

I'd call them fiddles, kevinV probably knows better - does 'fiddle' just mean the bit of wood on the outside to stop things falling out?

I don't claim knowledge or wisdom above or beyond anyone else's, but yes, a small ledge or bit of stick would be my idea of a fiddle

 

[Mark-1]

I don't claim knowledge or wisdom above or beyond anyone else's, but yes, a small ledge or bit of stick

Unless it's a table edge and then I think they're fingers.

 

[Bouba]

Unless it's a table edge and then I think they're fingers.

They are curved...so a bow

 

[Fr J Hackett]

They are curved...so a bow

I am confused now are we talking about the mistresses legs.

 

[Bouba]

I am confused now are we talking about the mistresses legs.

Fiddle...bow.....get it ?

 

[KevinV]

Unless it's a table edge and then I think they're fingers.

I thought they were for picking, rolling and flicking bogies?

 

[Sybarite]

Equipets

 

[MontyMariner]

Porthole wall lockers?

 

[Daydream believer]

I thought they were for picking, rolling and flicking bogies?

Who nose?

 

[rogerthebodger]

I call there cubby holes

https://flic.kr/p/WVhQHL

The term cubby holes has different meaning in different countries

Meanings in various countries​

In South Africa, cubby-hole or cubby is the word for a glove compartment in a vehicle. This usage is also common in Barbados, Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, as well as parts of Southern Minnesota; Michigan; Madison, South Dakota; and Northwest Wyoming.

In the UK, Ireland and Canada, it may refer to the cupboard under the stairs. In Quebec, the French word cagibi, which is a contraction of cage à bijoux, and roughly translates as "jewel case", is synonymous with a triangular storage walk-in located directly under the inner stairs of a house.

In the United States, a cubby-hole most often refers to a small square or rectangle-shaped space where children may keep their personal belongings, such as in a preschool or kindergarten setting. These cubby-holes are often constructed out of the same materials as bookshelves and have a similar appearance save for the division of the cubbies themselves.

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[Daydream believer]

Meanings in various countries

Did you make that up from your own opinion, or did you get that from some official document.
I ask, because living in the Uk, I have never heard the term applied to the cupboard under the stairs.
Whilst I have no experience of the term in other places, the fact that one part is debatable, does lead me to question the validity of the whole post.