What's that!!

[Ragamuffin]

Just acquired a CP-16 (mk3 I think), any idea what the funny clam-shell thing is on the bow? Possibly an ash-tray for when the weather is calm and you are smoking cigars on the foredeck?

[Andre]

Anchor rode deck pipe to allow rode to be fed below deck.

Andre

[Mas]

Yup

[Bob23]

Do not under any circumstances open it!!! I've seen these portals to different time dimensions and if you're not careful, you could be sucked right in!! I've been there...and returned. Not everyone does!!

[Ragamuffin]

Really? I thought hawse pipe too, but when I opened it it was capped off and there's no obvious internal routing.
Portal to another dimension did not feature in the top half of my list of possibilities.

[kahpho]

It's a periscope.... I think.

[Yamaha33410]

I concur with periscope

[crazycarl]

is there another one mounted on the port side but towards the stern?

reason i ask is, i once came across a sailboat where the owner used two hawse pipes for holding a jib pole.

[Cats Paw]

It's A Steam Whistle.

[MacGyver]

I am ded (new age internet verbiage here guys) from all these shenanigans here!

Mac

[JBC]

Though as I mentioned prior, am no longer sailing. Sold the 16 this summer. However, can't resist a comment on the rode deck pipe discussion (loved some of the descriptions for its purpose!). I will add one from experience...it's an above-deck mouse hole. Yes, leaving an anchor rode running up through that pipe to the anchor secured to the bow sprit one winter, while the boat was stored outside, left an Open House sign on the deck for a family of mousy boat squatters. Running up and down that rode, in and out, they moved in and had a nice cozy home.

That is, until I raised the rent with some peppermint liquid soaked in a wet sponge placed inside, got 'em out of there quick, put the rode away and sealed up the deck pipe. They never returned, but I never rigged back up the anchor either.

Jett