Launch Of Revolutionary
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Character
THE Mott Marlin 17-feet steel cruiser (see advertisement in this issue) is a craft of revolutionary design and construction. It is the invention of a young Australian engineer. The cruisers are made in steel works in Newcastle, NSW. They are pressed out by huge dies and presses, and fabricated and welded like the steel bodies of automobiles, ex cept that the plates used are of much heavier gauge steel.
There are three special features.
Corrosion has been mastered by a special technique—galvanic control—so that de struction of the hull by rust is impossible; each boat, although mass-produced, is tested individually in a special tank, where hull and engine are subjected to calculated strains; and the boat has road mobility—two wheels can be attached and it can be towed by a car, without aid of cradle or carrier. The boats already have been exported to the Far East, New Caledonia, the United States and New Zealand.