| Mr. Burtsall alone was preserved, as in falling he caught hold of one of the bobstays, and reached the bowsprit. |
| Rising and falling with the sea, the man watched his opportunity and grabbed the bobstays. |
| For the bobstays there should be ten or twelve links to the inch, and for the others considerably more. |
| Gordon Bok, an instrument maker and boat builder from Camden, carved a loose rendering of a man climbing in the bobstays of his sailboat. |
| The longitudinal pressure is counteracted by the bobstays, stays and backstays. |
| The man, swimming for dear life in the water, grabbed the bobstays as the vessel pitched downward and climbed on deck. |
