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Leo Goolden continues the restoration of the 108-year-old sailing yacht Tally Ho by replacing the shed’s UV-degraded tarp roof with a more durable, transparent material.3:05 To accommodate a growing team of volunteers, he upgrades the workshop kitchen storage and prepares to build a temporary, removable roof structure over outdoor planing and assembly tables to protect them from Pacific Northwest rain.4:58 The project team focuses on frame production, utilizing a custom jig to sharpen planer blades for processing hard live oak, which dulls standard blades quickly.16:21 New volunteers Steve, a boatbuilder from Falmouth, and Ben, a ski instructor from Hungary, join the project to assist with fitting and priming frames.18:24 The team uses a mixture of pine tar and dolphinite to seal and secure the new frames.11:47 Goolden plans to eventually install a helix head on the planer to improve efficiency in milling large timber slabs.16:59

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