The diagrams show a jib with a rope made fast with a bridle (marked q.x) to the centre of the luff and leading inboard through a block on the end of the bowsprit. The bridle has the note ‘vast aent voor Lijck dese spruijt al seen boeijlij x met een kous’ (Fast to the luff, this pendant is like a bowline x with a thimble). The running part has the note ‘dis boijlij spruijt verstreckt met moeij weer voor d hass voorde groete kluijf fock q’. (This bowline pendant is hauled out in fine weather in place of the tack of the big fore staysail q.).

A larger jib with a ticked line showing the luff held straight by a pole from the centre of the luff to the main hawsehole is annotated ‘dit moet gebruickt waerde met d groete klus (This must be used with the main hawsehole).

There is also a rough sketch of the detail of the bowsprit gammoning.

This is a pencil and pen drawing by the Younger, signed in grey ink ‘W.V.VJ’. Robinson is uncertain of this work’s date, but believes that the form of the signature with no loop to the J indicates that it is early.

For examples of this method of setting the jib see PAI7677, PAJ2583, and PAF6512.