Wooden Boat Building - How to Caulk Wood Planking with Louis Sauzedde
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- Shipwright Louis Sauzedde demonstrates his method for caulking wood planking. Follow more of his traditional wooden boat buildings methods at www.TipsfromaSh...
I have been working on a Danish fishing trawler 72 ft wooden , we have stripped all paint back to bare wood , caulked with oakum and sealed ready for paint , your videos have been very helpful and enjoyable to watch , have learnt a lot from you thanks Dee.
I appreciate your endeavor. Many New Englanders I knew in service and trucking. None of them could talk right and I would give my life for them. Carry on
Roll the yahhn....love this guy such an old world Craftsman, deep respect my Brother.
it ' s a marvel to see the dedication of this guy .... how he gets the job done , I've seen this when I was a kid, some 50 years ago .... in an old town called Genoa
Artist. Craftsman. You are very good teacher. Should film more, NOW in 2016!
As a worker, I enjoy watching other people work for once. This guy is a master. Why does the seam compound take so incredibly long to dry?! I’m from Ohio, where the only boats we understand are trucks.
Awesome workmanship
Great sharing thanks
Excelent video, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. I wonder if it would be possible to fiberglass a wooden planked boat like this one in order to make simpler the maintenance work. What do you think about it? I have heard and read a lot of things but never with convincent arguments.. thanks !!!!
This guy is a master!
very well done
A very helpful tips can learn a lot it's.
Looks great great job but why that hammer?
this man does magic :)
Wow !
what so this Yacht is in a dry dock for years and years before it is fully corked and prepared and ready to be sold?
No. This is a repair. After awhile it is sailing ready, the time period is how long until you can properly dress it up to make it look pretty again.
That being said yachts that are being made from scratch do take years yes.
Thanks!
this seem amazing after a few drinks, but still keep up the amazing work :D
Why's the hammer so big?
Из России с любовью.
My dad was a boat builder. I am 58 years old and my first memory as a child was being in a boat yard watching my dad caulk and seal a wooden boat. Great video.
TV sucks. This is reality.
I wish I was 16 again so I can finish school and go work with Mr Sauzedde to absorb all that wealth of knowledge and experience he has to offer. A most knowledgeable craftsman. An absolute pleasure to watch and learn from :)
Watched this last year but had to watch again, what a craftsman .
Very cool to see again.my dad was a master ship wright in Pearl Harbor before the war for the merchant marines. He and his brothers had a boat repair yard on Lake Erie across from the mentor yacht club,this was 1949 thru the late 50s.As a kid I remember playing with his caulking tools, he forgot more than I ever learned from him.boat building is a lost art,I hope you are apprenticing a young man to continue it.
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What a Interesting informative man"" "who loves his work""
It's such a joy to see the man at work and see the routine in everything he does.
Damn, Louis: I wished you lived here on the East Coast of Australia: I would apprentice to you in a heartbeat! Beautiful work.
Two years after I bought a 1938 Kernville wooden troller I still have her and have replaced over 100' of seam with the intent to replace all the old rotten cotton seam in her. Thanks in part to this video. I knew what that broad chisel that had been carefully ground on the end was and how to use it when I found it in the rusty tools aboard her. She has been out of the water three times and while my first seam leaked, and my second seam got torn out in a gale, my technique and confidence have improved. This old wooden boat will fish on for another 85 years. Cheers.
F/V Doris, santa cruz, CA
O calafeto e de frente pra trás não dia trás pra frente está errado eu sou calafati a 35 anos i tem que bater com força
We're currently refurbishing our 1923 wooden gaff ketch here in Australia & hugely benefit from Louis' instructional videos. His methods are well illustrated & explained and work fine on a classic timber ship. Thank you, Louis, for your help - very much appreciated !
you should make some videos of it
Always amazing to watch a true craftsman. This world is sorely lacking in people like this with love of the trade and skill to teach
You do great work. I replaced 17 planks in a chris craft connie 46'..also all stringers behind planks..i used butt blocks thou..much easier. Was my first time. She turned out beautiful...1996 Saugatuck mi.. She turned heads going down the kazoo river..
This is an awesome channel, my summer project while I’m away from university is restoring an old boat and I’m learning loads! Sorry to ask a novice question but does the fact that it takes a year for the seam compound to firm up properly mean that this boat would have to lie up in dry dock for a year, or can it harden while in use out at sea?
I don't know anything about boats but I did like his video, Great job Sir.
This is not how you do it!!!. Totally wrong, if you pleat the wadding reverse nap it wont stick to the seam end, as the ship rolls it opens the hem. We used to use cotton flag dipped in rip oil to seal it then over tip it and back butter to fully stock the plank and I have no idea what I'm talking about......
Good video
@Randy Welsh eh?
What an Artisan. To an engineer, this chap is a pure artist!!
A pleasure to observe🙂🙂
So interesting to see a serious tradesman at work .... if I wanted to build a quality wooden working boat, this guy would be pick No1 for sure.
Truly a master craftsman, with excellent discriptive skills as he explains each step. I have subscribed to your vedios. Thank you and perhaps I can acquire some tips.
You've got mad skills Louis! I really enjoy your videos.
Great stuff
Especially since your using the most awkward looking hammer ive ever seen 😃
It's a shipwright's caulking mallet. I'm surprised he didn't explain why he was using it, probably just so second nature he forgot.
@@sterlingfitzgerald7933 what is the name of the caulking tool he’s hammering. I need to start this process in my 1919 USN boat.
In my apprentice, some generations ago, we used hemp impregnated with tar. It was a dirty job, most of the time done by the apprentices. This look cleaner, but does it last?
We also used tar diluted with terpentine to impregnate the wood. It gave a warm beautiful glowe to the pine wood (2-10% solution, depending on the quality of the tar).
I'd be willing to bet that this method would look amazing on clear wood finish as well. Would look like pin-stripes once cleaned up.
Thanks for sharing this, Lou.i haven't seen anything new from your channel is quite some time. I sure hope you're alright.
A pleasure watching someone know what he's doing really enjoyed watching him
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I worked at a marina here in Florida all through high school and my summer breaks and even my summers home from college for extra money..The marina had alot of old wooden plank sailboats so I've had my share of pounding cotton caulking in the seems of these old boats was taught by a Master boat builder and shipwright from Scotland..He told me it was the only thing he's ever done for a living his father his grandfather and his great grandfather were all Ship Wrights in the same place in Scotland until him and his mother moved to the US in 78!!!
I absolutely love your videos. As someone who has been a hobbyist woodworker for 35 yrs and a professional Carpenter I love the things you teach and the way in which you do it in every video. I would love to buy a small boat from you to use for fishing like you made a year or so ago that had the Yamaha 50hp motor put on it. It would take me back to my childhood.
I used to do teak decking and you bring back memories for me of the 50's. Thanks!
I have a wooden Carver with a plywood transom that has rotted out in spots
I’m adding new plywood to it wood this method be appropriate?
If not what would you recommend.
Thank you for these interesting and informative videos
I wonder if this could be done on roof sheathing to seal the seams where there is blocking behind the seams?
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Other than a British guy who uses oakum and shows more info about the irons and how they work, and tells more about the mallet, this is the best video out there. The British video is here: th-cam.com/video/FNy_upl-4LA/w-d-xo.html
Very well explained. LIKED and Subd.
Hello, I am doing this job in Turkey, I want to do this job there, can you help me?
Why Cotton, why not Hemp ?
Excellent Instruction and camera work, Mister Sauzedde.
I know it's the internet but who gives this a thumbs down? Are they shipwrights who think he is giving bad advise?
What is the point of that rediculous looking hammer? 😂
Where can I buy the cotton? We are restoring a Herreshoff and are at the point where this is our next step.
Sawing the cotton, I just learned something! Awesome!
In the old days it was done with hemp (oakum) and tar... Not cotton
This guy is literally the best teacher I have ever seen it seems like I understand everything that he is doing
I can’t even speak English but I love these videos
I'm curious is there a reason for that hammer? Why not use a regular hammer.
Done that used be my responsibility for the Garboard seam.
It is a definite art to be able to caulk a seam correctly.
This Guy knows how to do the job PROPERLY! Excellent advice! Thanks Frank K. in the U.K.
I did not search for this topic, nor do I have any reason to watch this. Hell, I don't know anything about boats, but I have to say this is an outstanding explaination.
I hope to apply this information on other tasks in my life. Thank you sir
Absolutely Master Boat Wright....even better teacher
Amazing video brother wish you were in the Metro Detroit area
If it’s anything like calking lead joints in plumbing....it’s spelled “calk”....why? Because....lol
You the best!! You Master! . I am 25 yiars old ,i am from Kefalonia islan Grecce. I have woden boat bat the last wooden boat bilder his day 4 years befor. So am tray by my self.What about after caulking? Silcaflex 291i ? Pouty? A goot tip?
So many guys are BORING 😴 to say the least,but not you. I really enjoy listening to your tutorial as you move along. I can work for you all night and day without ever getting tired of your instructions. My hardwood flooring mentor was just like you, Italian.
thats a proper job not like the modern folk use silicon
my friend in Huntington beach sure could have used your tutelage back in the late 80s
I went to visit him and we went to dry dock (to see and put the boat in the water,) you know after his repair work .......
the crane lowered him in and water came gushing in LOL
Secrets of a shipbuilder! So is this considered a hull patch? And a year before it can be submerged? You said a year for it to take up?
I was lucky enough to be at Hardwick's in Seattle in February (just before the whole pandemic business started in Kent) and I was gratified to note there were at least a dozen caulking irons in a glass fronted case for your caulking needs. I was mighty impressed. Thanks for the video; 'much skill demonstrated.
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Really useful. Thank you. Working as you showed me is saving me money and giving me pleasure. Bill Dixon, Scotland
Great instructional! Finally found someone who explains why you the cotton in the seam in this manner.
This man is a brilliant educator and he shows that a craftsman working in silence has a big brain and his mind is processing the situation continuously. Many educators miss a lot of intelligent children who like to be silent and work in silence and jut because children are not vociferous it does not mean that they are not intellligent.
Congratulations Mr Louis Sauzedde. YOu are a brilliant man.
Watching you with the seam compound was exactly what I was doing on my 37 Egg Harbor.
I used Dap Dynaflex 230 white to do this on my wood 36 EggHarbor. Fresh out of the caulk gun, it is very loose and soft. It dries to a firm rubbery consistency that does not crack.
I wanted the seams to show and they do and it looks real nice. Dynaflex 230 after it dries a day or two can be wet sanded. It does shrink a little and show the seams which for me was what I wanted. After a full cure in about 30 days, it is strong rubbery tough in the seams and does not open up - crack. My seams are tight, there is not much space between planks, mostly just a caulking bevel on one plank edge, the other plank edge is straight cut. OEM, EggHarbor laid small thin real fine cotton threads into the seams. When I got the boat, all the seams were cracking and letting in rain water. I dug out all the hardened old seam compound on my last haul out, replaced with Dynaflex 230 and in the rear of the boat, Black PL Polyurethane Roof flashing.
Finished hull showing the seams
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Here is an album of pics and what I did on that haulout.
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It takes over a year to finish? Wow. I was thinking about using this technique for a tiny roof but I'd be an old man before I could finish it using this method.
What do you use for below water line compound
An absolute gentleman and a zen master in boat building (timber) thank you for posting this and your other videos. In a crazy world people like you are the welcome bedrock of what we deem as civilization. You are amazing, bless you.
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What putty do you use below the waterline please?
Fascinating videos (esp. for us [pitiful] landlubbers)!!
thank you so much for your videos man! Im curious as to why we use tar in oakum but not cotton, is dry cotton better than tared jute for sealing seams?
Louis, truly awesome attention to detail in the so-thoroughly explained methods, and also telling what common mistakes are likely as youre doin it. A true inspiration.Long Live Louis
I don't let my planks saw each other .
Nice work! I've only done small areas on my fish boats, used putty and linseed oil to seal the caulking in. My boats now are smaller and aluminium.
Where are you working at? I recognize the green and white fishing boat in your video background from a port I fished out of...
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Louis, what's your opinion on building a Haven 12 1/2 using strip plank?
1. Why the funny looking hammer? Looks long with a small contact area.
2. A year for seam compound to dry? This is 2019 isn't any product faster.
Plenty of products are faster. They also dont last as long. When you spend a million on a ship, a year is nothing.
"Give it a year to dry?" Wow that's a bit longer than caulking for homes.
It would be funny if someone was inside the boat and turned on the bilge pump.
This man deserves a fucking medal.
That is some of the neatest techniques I've seen. I wish I could be there to learn some hands on experience in boat building.