Thread: Nautical term for the "ringband" on the end of the bowsprit?
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Old 11-04-2007
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Originally Posted by Boasun View Post
the metal band at the outboard end of the bowsprit is the 'Spider Band'.

Most of the other terms in the drawing are right on otherwise...
I hate to disagree but a spider band is the same thing, that is to say a band on a spar but it’s on a mast and it has cleats or belaying pins built in so it can look like a spider to drunk sailor with poor vision. And if you add a ring to a cranes iron for another spar to slide in such as a topmast or boom for a studding sail the cranes iron is now called a wythe iron.
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