| 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 bowsprit is set up with double chain bobstays and double chain bowsprit shrouds. |
| It was formerly a custom to fit two bobstays, a regular one and a smaller one, called a preventer. |
| 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. |
| The man, swimming for dear life in the water, grabbed the bobstays as the vessel pitched downward and climbed on deck. |
