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How do the deadeyes on the spritsail topmast tie to the bowsprit?

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I am building a ship called the Mirage. It contains a spritsail topmast. The question I have is how were the lower deadeyes tied to the bowsprit? I read that there was a special type of chainplate that was used for this purpose, but I can't find any details of how it looked.
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I am building a ship called the Mirage. It contains a spritsail topmast. The question I have is how were the lower deadeyes tied to the bowsprit? I read that there was a special type of chainplate that was used for this purpose, but I can't find any details of how it looked.
Thanks
Hello, here I found some images from my books. Deadeyes are tied to chainplates, and chainplates tied to bowsprit.

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Thank you. Do you have a picture of the chainplate that is used specifically for this application?
I have to look if I have specifically chainplates images. They should be similar to the chainplates used in the ships from the same era, they just bolted to bowsprit instead of hull.
 
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