There are two boats in the photo gallery with sprits: #s 49 and 50. My comment above applies to #50 not #49. It has (or had) a permanent sprit that retracts through a hole directly under the stem of the boat. Sorry for the mix-up. I have a picture of the sprit on #50 Last Dance in case anybody's interested. (Not recommended!) The picture is a close up of the sprit from the outside. I think that boat is also in the SF Bay area. It was in Galveston.