All went well until we hit the problem of how to retract the bowsprit.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

Rising from the calm surface of the sea beneath the bowsprit was a line of crabs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Triumph of Souls]

The broken spars dangling forlornly from the bowsprit were a bigger problem, but the icerigger could sail without them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deluge Drivers]

"I was afraid you would be knocked off the bowsprit, which is a bad place to be, when two vessels put their noses together.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder] Reference

There was nothing ahead of the sloop's fixed bowsprit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation: bowsprit/bow-sprit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

The bowsprit hung far over the smaller ship, a wand of doom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

The Rigging consists of the ropes attached to masts and bowsprit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference

"Well, if we are to have only one mast, should we have a bowsprit?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference

The cutwater crushed, the bowsprit sundered, decks awash with blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [DANCING ON AIR] Reference

Her bowsprit dove under, burying Jim almost breast-deep, spoiling his aim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

"The bowsprit is that mast which projects forward from the bow, isn't it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference

The Arrow struck the Whistler on the bow, the long bowsprit ripping a hole in the main-sail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

One of these Jim lashed to the sloop's jibstay, about waist-high above the end of the bowsprit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

For a moment the bowsprit of the latter seesawed threateningly along the jibstay of the smaller craft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

One of the sailors climbed out upon the bowsprit and began to fiddle a tune in honor of the discovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference

Our rigging and sails were much cut; one shot through the foremast, and the bowsprit slightly injured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

Percy had withdrawn from his companions and lay across the heel of the bowsprit on the decked-over bow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

I own this boat from garboard to main truck, bowsprit-tip to boom-end, and I don't wear any man's dog-collar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

A wave bigger than the rest completely submerged the bowsprit as the boat plunged into the trough of the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage with Captain Dynamite] Reference

"What's the difference between the jib-boom and the bowsprit; they both project out from the bow of the vessel?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference

They now got to the bows of the wreck, where the strong off-tide drifted them right under the jib-boom and bowsprit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

"The bowsprit projects out only a little forward of the bow, and the jib-boom is attached to the forward end of the bowsprit.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference

A man upon the bowsprit is struck in the abdomen by a shot, staggers aft holding up his entrails, and near the main hatch falls dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama] Reference

Her bowsprit was carried away, and her foremast went over the side, the strain on the rigging bringing down the main topmast with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

He closed up so that his bowsprit was almost over the flagship's stern, and the "Bucentaure's" people called out to him not to run into them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference