One of the small towns hereabouts holds an annual and well-attended celebration known as The Wooden Boat Festival.
Hundreds of people come from all over the world to indulge in and share their love for this archaic, pleasure craft passion. Milling about, they ooh and ahh over lacquered hulls, canvas sheets, coils of hemp, and brass fittings, imagining themselves transported over the waves as if in some fantastic dream …
Man, what the hell is it about boating?
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