Image description: Pretty slipper launch moored on a Thames backwater, Sonning, River Thames, Oxfordshire.

'Slipper launches' are so named because of their graceful sterns - which gently curve downwards - and low profiles give an overall impression of a ladies slipper. Traditionally they display beautiful, highly varnished, and often richly contrasting, exotic woods such as teak, mahogany and obeche.

Photograph keywords: Sonning, Sonning-on-Thames, slipper launch, launch, wooden boat, backwater, quiet, peaceful, calm, tranquil, traditional boat, craftmanship, idyllic, English, British, River Thames, Thames, river, town, Oxfordshire, Isis, River Isis, England, Britain, UK, United Kingdom

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