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SLIGHTLY CRACKED

By Harvey R. Davis

|Published on September 1, 1955

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Front view of the 'Innards' of a small Marine boiler which I built for a friend in Florida. It is now being installed in a Gibbs Sea Skiff to steam a one or two horse single cylinder simple Marine engine. Skiff will be used in the shallow waters up 'Whisk

Front view of the 'Innards' of a small Marine boiler which I built for a friend in Florida. It is now being installed in a Gibbs Sea Skiff to steam a one or two horse single cylinder simple Marine engine. Skiff will be used in the shallow waters up 'Whisk

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This is the rear view of the same boiler. Mr. Conaut has a 40 ft. modern cruiser with full living quarters including toilet and shower, also a cabin sailing sloop, but his love is steam launches which he puts together himself. He is 70 years young.

This is the rear view of the same boiler. Mr. Conaut has a 40 ft. modern cruiser with full living quarters including toilet and shower, also a cabin sailing sloop, but his love is steam launches which he puts together himself. He is 70 years young.

Hubbard Lake, Michigan

Not being able to decipher the code, I am sending my $2.00 as I
like to keep paid up a bit ahead, never want to miss a copy. I told
you that I was building a steam launch. Full truth is, that I was
collecting the many gadgets needed for one which I now have, but
now my hobbyist friends, want boilers like pictures enclosed, but

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