Restoring Rosalind, Episode 20: Caulking a Wooden Boat

Everyone's done their version of a caulking video, and since we've finished with the whiskey plank, might as well do ours. Though this was quite a few months back, we think there's good value in looking at Andrew's collected tools and wisdom. With the hull of this historic boat partially faired, Andrew is ready to start the caulking process.

The current state of the boat is well past this, and we'll get to that next time. The engine is on its beds, bulwarks are in, a cabin house is almost ready for sheathing in fiberglass, and some interior joinery has begun.

Rosalind, a vernacular working sailboat built in St. Ives by William Paynter, has had a long and well traveled life. She's being rebuilt in Mystic, Connecticut by Andrew Guest, a boatbuilder and restorer who had already been thinking about building a lugger when he found this one destined for the chainsaw in Oxford, Maryland. Subscribe to this channel to follow and support her extensive restoration.

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The music was performed by Gus La Casse and Mathias Kamin aboard Lyra in September, 2020. https://www.guslacasse.com/​​​

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