The caulking is a millenary technique that makes the difference between a locker and a boat: both are made of wooden parts interconnected so as to serve a purpose and withstand the loads. But placed in water, the contents of a cupboard gets wet, the boat's not. Even the Bible, When Noah received instructions to build his boat, he speaks generally of "ark" (like saying "a box"), but he dwells in detail on how to waterproof. And the same is true when describing the basket to which it is entrusted with the fate of Moses.
E 'art largely forgotten.
For a man, addressed to the cave in search of Alimuri Masters Calafate, Mast'Antonio reply dryly giving an address and a number: the cemetery of Meta. But
Mast'Antonio is modest. Even if it is "only" a shipwright, and a Master Caulker, is perfectly able to run the caulking to his crop, using the tools tramandatigli his master shipwright.
This is a series of chisels, apparently identical, to be used in progression, and a large wooden mallet and detail. The first chisels are used to enlarge the
seams (the spaces between the planks.) Between them there are the plots of cotton (using the tow boats or the larger "vessels"), and these, with other chisels, more rounded, are pushed to seal the openings between the parts of the shell. On larger boats, as well as on the deck of the crop, the seams are sealed by pouring molten pitch, then sanded flush. On a crop of about 7 meters, however, with small parts not subject to significant stress and deformation than the width of the seam, just filler and paint. 
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