One key difference is that standing rigging and/or a sail should not
be supported by a bow pulpit, it's function is to keep personnel on
board.

Joe wrote:
So what's it called when you have a handrail and standing rigging?


Is your standing rigging led to the handrail? I don't recall seeing
that in your photos.

Sometimes there is a big conglomeration of stuff sticking out the
front of boats... a bowsprit topped by a grating or platform topped by
a large bow pulpit. There is also a thing called a plank bowsprit
which is both a platform & a spar, in one. It seems likely to me what
you're looking at is both a bowsprit and a pulpit.

Do you have a martingale, too?



What do you think of the term "pushpit" for a stern pulpit? Clear?
Clever? Cutesy?


Stern pulpit is more clear..followed by pushing pulpit. We talking
gondola's?


Agree.... I think "pushpit" is bit cutesy.

There is a special word for the projecting oarlock at the stern of a
gondola, but I have forgotten it. BTW Venetian gondola have asymmetric
hulls so that they are easier to row straight with one stern oar.

DSK