Last week the British Navy rode the Mediterranean and the Italian Navy was afraid to poke a bowsprit out of port.
The gimlet stare, the laconic speech, the cigar stub jutting like a bowsprit from the face, the seafaring background and fo'c'sle oaths, the muscular armall are there.
Yachtsmen remember the Westward, once the largest yacht in British waters, Hatry's dives from her bowsprit, his remark: "Swimming is the only sport that I, personally, enjoy.
Michigan: Beam Raised for Clues to Origin Scientists who combed the bottom of Lake Michigan last week for the wreck of the Griffin have retrieved a beam that could be the bowsprit.
June 26, 2013 - New York Times