Chinking with Oakum

 

Boatwright Joey Jacobson uses a strand of hemp called oakum to fill cracks on the hull of the wooden vessel Nightingale Monday at the Small Boat Harbor. Jacobson is planning to use the vessel for commercial trolling. Tom Morphet photo.



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