BOSUN’S BAG
aving owned antique wooden boats over a longer period of years than I’d like to admit, I’ve done more than my share of caulking. Various aspects of the subject have featured in these columns before, but the most important lesson time has taught me is that nobody ever knows it all. Among my personal collection of irons is a massive great thing with a business end, or ‘blade’ I suppose you’d call it, that measures the best part of ⅝ in (10mm) across. I picked this up in a blacksmith’s yard in Nova Scotia, where I was
