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by Matthew P. Murphy magazine No. 183 (March/April 2005) Nils Kjetil Torvik The Hardanger Fartøyvernsenter Ships Preservation Center is located on Norway’s Hardangerfjord in the town of Norheimsund. It began as an effort to restore one vessel, MATHILDE, and has grown to become one of Europe’s principal vessel restoration establishments. Olav Bjoerkum The center still owns MATHILDE, using her for summer camp excursions and for charter. A visitor to the Norwegian town of Norheimsund searching for the Hardanger Fartøyvernsenter need only follow his nose: the smell of Stockholm tar will lead to the place. The Fartøyvernsenter, or Ships Preservation Center, is a cluster of immaculately painted raw-umber and yellow-ochre shop buildings sitting on spotless waterfront grounds set against the glacier-topped mountains and rolling green hills of Norway’s Hardangerfjord. Its façade has the air of postcard-perfect microcosm of traditional Norwegian maritime in ....