Motor malfunction? Take a boat in the future! (8)

I believe the answer is:

tomorrow

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'future' is the definition.
(I know that tomorrow is a type of future)

'motor malfunction? take a boat in' is the wordplay.
'malfunction?' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'malfunctioning' mean this).
'take a boat in' becomes 'row' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'motor' is an anagram of 'tomor'.
'tomor'+'row'='TOMORROW'

'the' is the link.

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(Other definitions for tomorrow that I've seen before include "The next day" , "In the near future" , "They say it never comes" , "coming soon" , "Manana to the Spanish" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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