Seeing light through the bowsprit

[Clyde Jenkins]

A friend of mine owns a Cape George cutter. 36 feet on deck. 42 feet LOA. 10.5 feet beam. 23200 lbs displacement. Full keel. The bowsprit is a wood lamination, painted. In the current state of rig tune there are some visible horizontal cracks in the sprit. When he put the foresail on the roller furler and went sailing in light air he found that he could see through the sprit from side to side.

How worrisome or risky is this? Does it make sense to try to fix it by driving fasteners in to draw the gaps together? He assumes that epoxy was used as the adhesive for lamination. Could epoxy be injected and then clamp the piece to draw it up? Is replacement the best fix?

Clyde