A Bowman is a position on a racing sailboat (Matt Cornwell describes it like this)
Bowman is a grunty job for young, agile, fit guys who do not mind getting cold, wet and bounced up and down all race long.
It is an action man job but you are also the poor sucker who gets sent up the mast or to the end of the spinnaker pole if there is a problem.
If the deck is moving a few feet in the swell, you can guarantee that the top of a 110ft mast is moving miles.
You have to be keen to endure the physical and wet conditions and sometimes you just have to pull your socks up and get on with it.