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Slide 1: Episode 31

0:17Hello and welcome back to the yard. If you're new here, I'm Rui, this is the boat, and the boat is winning. [laughs] Today is episode thirty-one of the restoration, and for the first time since March there is more boat than hole, so, yeah, that's the news.

0:33Quick recap for the new people, because the comments tell me there are a lot of you, and uh, welcome. This is a wooden fishing boat, seven point four metres, built in nineteen sixty-one in a yard that closed in nineteen eighty-eight.

Slide 2: The boat so far

0:46I bought her for nine hundred euros in a field, which is not where boats are supposed to be, and I've since spent four thousand, no, four thousand three hundred euros and roughly six hundred hours proving that I should have paid less. My grandfather fished out of a boat exactly like this one. He never saw this one. He would have had opinions.

1:08He'd have stood at the back of the yard with his hands behind his back and said nothing for an hour, and then pointed at one rivet. One. And he'd have been right about the rivet. Okay. That's enough about him, he'd hate this. Planks.

1:22Today we're doing the planks on the port side, numbers four, five and six, which is the part everybody warned me about, because the curve there is tight and the old planks were in such bad shape that I could put my thumb through two of them. The ribs underneath are oak, original, and sound, which is the only reason this project isn't firewood. I took the old planks off in episode twenty-eight. If you missed that, it involved a crowbar, a lot of dust, and me saying a word I've since cut out. [chuckles]

Slide 4: 68 copper rivets

1:49The new planks are pine, twenty-two millimetres, steamed for forty minutes in the box I built in episode nineteen, the one that caught fire slightly. I've added a thermometer and a fire extinguisher, in that order of usefulness. No? Guys, the fire extinguisher is the useful one. That was the joke. Okay.

2:07Each plank goes on hot, bent against the ribs with clamps and a lot of optimism, and then I fasten it with copper rivets, sixty-eight per plank, because that's what the boat had, and the boat has lasted longer than most things I own.

2:21Then comes the part people argue about in the comments, so let me settle it, or try. The caulking, the, okay, in order... Between the planks I'm using cotton caulking, driven in with a mallet and an iron, the way the yard did it, and not a modern sealant. Not because I'm a purist. Because the wood will swell when she goes in the water, and cotton moves with it, and sealant doesn't.

Slide 5: The argument in the comments

2:44You can disagree. The boat will decide, The boat will decide, and she is not reading the comments.

2:51Costs for this episode. Pine, three hundred and forty euros. Rivets, one hundred and twelve. Cotton was eighteen, and a new mallet twenty-four, since the old mallet is at the bottom of the harbour, and that story's for another day. [sighs]

Slide 6: Costs for this episode

3:07Fine. Short version. There was a seagull, there was a sandwich, I made a decision, and the mallet and I disagreed about the decision. The seagull has the sandwich. The harbour has the mallet. Where was I. Costs. No, I did costs. The two things.

3:22Before we start, the usual two things. First, there's no sponsor on this channel, and there won't be, because the only thing I could honestly recommend is uh, coffee and a good doctor for your back.

Slide 7: The usual two things

3:33Second, if you want to help, the best way is to watch to the end, because that's what the algorithm counts, and the second best way is to tell me, kindly, what I'm doing wrong, because the people who built these boats are mostly gone, and some of you are the ones who remember.

3:48Right. The steam box is up to temperature, the first plank goes in now, and we have forty minutes to talk about rivets. Last week a man called Fernando, who is eighty-one, sent me a drawing of how his father set rivets, on the back of an electricity bill. It's the most useful document I've had in two years. Fernando, I framed the bill. I also paid it, by the way. You hadn't. Let's get her closed up.