The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Jib Traveler

Sea Terms

The large iron ring that the tack of a cutter's jib is made fast to. The ring goes around the bowsprit, and runs in and out on the spar by means of an outhaul and an inhaul--this jib is always set flying.

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