The stop is just to keep the spreader from sliding down if the design is dead horizontal rather than the traditional cocked up such that the spreader bisects the angle it causes in the stay. A clamp will work. Some tips have a screw-tightener. Siezing has also been used. Least attractively, a light stay can be run from one spreader's width above the mast/spreader join to the spreader tip. This cat has been skinned many many ways.
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