MARLOWPROWLER
MARLOWPROWLER
Features beyond expectation
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STATE OF THE ART MANUFACTURING Marlow Yachts owns its own facilities, employing more than 500 highly trained
workers skilled in the art of fiberglass construction to space age
standards. Our main facility , Norsemen Shipyard, occupies approximately 25 acres of beautiful oceanfront operating as the only Environmentally "Green" facility building yachts worldwide. The facility is spotlessly landscaped as a botanical park with masonry buildings sited and built to take advantage of advances in frp (Fiber reinforced plastics) construction techniques.
CONSTRUCTED OF TWO MAJOR MOLDS Essentially the Prowler is molded in two major molds with the superstructure tooling producing the entire deck, side decks, trunk cabin, foredeck, aft deck, coaming interior cockpit liner and deck, dash, cowl, window openings, hatch openings, doors, anchor lockers, cleat locations, fuel fills etc as a single unit. I do not think much needs to be said as to the advantages of eliminating a variety of seams from joining numerous (some companies utilize 20+ molds to accomplish the same task). When the Prowler emerges from infusion, it is many many days further along in production compared to one where multitudes of small parts must be joined, windows cut out, etc. The savings resulting from this production efficiency is remarkable and to enhance the attraction, all the wasted fiberglass products that would normally be thrown away (cutouts for window openings, etc) are eliminated along with numerous seams to loosen, leak or worse.
FIT AND FINISH BEYOND EXPECTATIONS The quality of materials selected follows our edict that we buy and build simply the best. From the custom made (in our own metal working shop) stainless steel components to the carbon fiber engine bed system, every specification is simply the best money can buy or men and women can build. We buy our own logs and mill them into every component needed, from toe rails to veneers, never having to settle for second, third or fourth best at some 5th stage lumber supplier and saving all markup steps in between. Our company frugality and single minded effort to produce the world's best carries onward to such details as recycling our metals and other materials, using wood scraps to heat our boilers and so forth. We do our dead level best to waste no resource.
To continue the design principal of the very best and most technologically advanced, the Prowler interiors are built using Nida Core Honeycomb, which we veneer to our own lofty standards in our own full staffed and equipped mill. You will find no plywood beneath the exquisite furniture and bulkheads in a Prowler. In so doing, we increase the strength of the panel by a factor of three compared to plywood and reduce the weight to less than 25% for the same sized panel. The honeycomb does not rot, peel or warp, ever ADVANCED ENGINEERING For routine service or checking a simple hatch lid rises on gas cylinders affording access to coolant, lubricants and perfunctory checking. For more serious maintenance, virtually the whole cockpit section rises on to electro hydraulic rams, exposing the entire machinery room including generator bay. Extraordinary? Absolutely!
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