The Ship Model Builder's Assistant by Charles G. Davis

Author:Charles G. Davis [Davis, Charles G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780486156200
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-07-23T04:00:00+00:00

Fig. 132

Fig. 133

On modern ships with low-steeved bowsprits, it was not so difficult to climb out to the end when it became necessary to stow the jibs, but even they had a pair of hand-ropes, leading from the top of each knight-head (Fig. 133), or from an iron stanchion set up on top of them, to the two parts of the fore-topmast stay, where these stays were spread apart to go, one each side, through the bee-blocks on the outer end of the bowsprit. Where the knight-heads did not stick up above the forecastle-head rail, as on the clipper and later ships, these hand-ropes rove through stanchions, were carried aft at about an angle of forty-five degrees from the eye in the top of the stanchion and were lashed to eye-bolts in the deck (Fig. 133). The outer ends, after being seized to the stays, ended at the bowsprit cap where they were lashed to an eye-bolt, one each side in the cap. Old-time ships, with round bowsprits sticking up high in the air, had “footings” or wooden steps, nailed across it at intervals, so that the men could readily climb out with the aid of the hand-ropes.

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