Trees arch over an ancient boathouse near a lock on the River Thames at the sleepy village of Hurley, about forty miles west of London, England. Boat lovers from all over the world have found their way there, to the adjoining workshop full of wooden skiffs, steamboats, slipper launches and electric canoes. Walls and rafters are hung with sets of boatbuilding molds, wooden clamps and tools; brass steam engines shine, machines hum,' people work, shavings fall to the floor.
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