A bullet hit a mast hoop, scraping away fresh yellow paint.

A spare mast hoop is normal as they sometimes break, especially the top hoop near the throat.

Either arrangement is fine, so long as the lines do not foul the mast hoops or the saddle or the jaws.

Dun-coloured hull, mast hoops black.

Although the mast was still standing together with a few forlorn mast hoops, the deck was nowhere to be seen.

In most sharpies the sails were hoisted to a single-sheave block at the mast heads and were fitted with wood or metal mast hoops.

Then followed up this project with the notable project building all ten spars, standing and running rigging, mast hoops for the replica iconic American Schooner Columbia, a noted competitor.

Invented sail tracks on masts and slides attached to the luff of sails to ride in the tracks (up until then, sails had been attached with mast hoops or laced to masts).