The word "wheelhouse" is correct and usable in written English.
In most cases, you can use it to refer to a place or area with a high level of knowledge or expertise. For example: "He's very knowledgeable when it comes to coding, it's definitely his wheelhouse."
The wheelhouse can be forward or aft.
He returned to his comic wheelhouse in the amusement The Night Before (2015), about a group of friends gathering for one last Christmas Eve debauch.
King crab potters working off of the coast of Alaska are up to 30 metres in length; they generally have the wheelhouse forward to leave a clear working deck aft, but smaller vessels can have the wheelhouse at either end.
From Splendour's wheelhouse, only the green-glowing radar screen penetrates the fog.
Gates does not shy from the spiritual, and describes the feelings associated with it as "my wheelhouse, my wonderland.
Iain accepted wheelhouse invasion with good grace, asking surprised small boys, "fancy a turn at the helm?" The boys, whose previous experience afloat was defined by an inflatable dingy, effected gentle deviations to our heading.
They were met with water hoses as the ship's passengers tried to form a defensive cordon to prevent soldiers from reaching the wheelhouse.
The side trawler is characterized by the wheelhouse and superstructure at the stern and a raised forecastle at the bow.
The vessels are generally designed with the wheelhouse and superstructure forward, often forming part of the raised forecastle.
The mast supporting the booms may be located forward, in which case the wheelhouse is located aft as on a side trawler, or they may be amidships with the wheelhouse forward, as on a stern trawler.
The North American purse seiner is generally laid out with a forward wheelhouse and aft working deck.
