The Marlow 70 featured in the below video is the 2006 70ft, HALCYON SEAS. Take a tour of everything this yacht has to offer with Shawn Johnson of Denison Yachting. While HALCYON SEAS is currently off the market, Denison Yachting does have a similar Marlow for sale – check out the 2021 53E Marlow Explorer, SEA US GO, currently on the market for $2,499,999.
Hi, this is Shawn Johnson with Denison Yachting, presenting to you the 2006 Marlow 70 Explorer, HALCYON SEAS. HALCYON SEAS is one of the most unique Marlow’s ever built. It is also one of the most versatile yachts, able to accommodate three couples plus crew on extended voyages or entertain a group of 20 or more. She offers her owners and guests a beautiful interior with a flow-through sight line that starts as you enter the salon through the aft doors and can see through past the galley and into the lower helm. Combine this with the expansive flybridge that offers a bar with seating for five along with a dining table with seating for five and an open aft deck area for lounge chairs.
Her Naiad fin stabilizers make cruising a comfortable experience whether at the 17-knot cruise speed or at her 24-knot top end. Inside, you will see how her usage of space gives you all the comforts of a large yacht plus, the unseen storage space needed for extended cruising.
Today’s walkthrough will start on the stern where there is a swim platform accessed by a hinged door on both port and starboard sides. On the port side coming down the steps, you will find access to the Glendenning Cablemaster and on the starboard side in addition to access to the Glendenning Cablemaster, you’ll find a hot and cold-water connection for showering off the salt water before entering the interior of the yacht.
The swim platform also incorporates a swim ladder that is easily accessible and hidden when not in use. Center line is a watertight door giving you access to the crew quarters and engine room.
Crew Quarters
Stepping into the crew area, you see berths to port and starboard, with a head to starboard and freezer to port.
Engine Room
Continuing forward through a watertight door is the engine room, containing twin Caterpillar C18s that are 1,015 horsepower each and are complete with Cat telemetry and electronic controls at both helms. Here there are also two Northern Light generators – one with 20 kilowatts and another with 16 kilowatts. To port, there’s a Sea Recovery SRC Aquatic 901 water maker capable of providing 900 gallons of drinking water per day. To starboard, there is the cruise air chilled water air conditioning heating system, along with freshwater flush port that has been added to the raw water side of the chilled water AC.
For extreme cold climate cruising, HALCYON SEAS is equipped with a Kabola hydraulic diesel heating system. Center line, you can see her Sea chest water intake. The engine room is also equipped with a Halon automatic fire control system.
Aft Deck
Next, let’s visit the aft deck where you will see an aft deck dining area to starboard, and looking aft, you see two additional seating areas. A camera to starboard lets you view aft from either helm. Boarding gates are located both port and starboard and a passerelle is on board, able to attach to either side for easy boarding.
You can also see the wide teak walk-arounds with high bulwarks, making it a safe side deck passage for everyone to have access from this aft area to the Portuguese bow. There is a lit teak and stainless stairway leading to the flybridge aft deck area. To port of this stairway is an access panel for the handheld wired control station. Entry into the large and inviting salon is through a hinged door and to starboard of this door are two panels that stack, combining the outdoors with the interior space. Huge windows bring in natural light.
Salon
The salon is equipped with a comfortable sofa to starboard and two club chairs to port. There’s a beautiful, polished wood hi-low table, storage beneath the sofa and surround sound. Between the club chairs, you will find an automated television rising out of the cabinet where you can keep your television’s DirecTV box and Wi-Fi printer.
Forward to port, you will find a U-Line refrigerator, along with ice maker, a sub-zero wine cooler and a built-in sink. To starboard forward in the salon is a beautiful cabinet with glass doors for all of your glassware and liquor bottles, as well as a serving area where you can prepare your nautical concoctions. Opposite this area are three stools with granite surface area where you can sit down and enjoy your evening’s appetizers or sit down for a light lunch.
The salon is lit both by table lamps and above headlighting where you will also find grab handles, should you need to move about during a rough passage. The salon is also where you will find the heart of the entertainment for the yacht which offers both a Fusion and a Sonos system, allowing you and guests to control music via your smartphone or tablet device with seven different zones. HALCYON SEAS is also equipped with a KVH satellite system for video entertainment.
Galley
HALCYON SEA’s galley has granite countertops and cherry wood cabinetry. Her top of the line appliances include a Miele convection oven, Fisher & Paykel dishwasher, Franke stainless steel sink, Grohe faucet, Dacor radiant range cooktop, Sharp Carousel convection microwave, a Broan trash compactor, two subzero freezer drawers and four sub-zero refrigeration drawers.
Foward to the galley to port is a galley dinette with a hi-low table with drop down sides and a flat screen tv that rises at the push of a button.
Lower Helm
The lower helm is equipped with two Stidd ultra leather helm chairs. Both the AC and DC morse electronic engine controls, bow and stern thruster controls, Caterpillar engine monitors, Furuno radar controls, Marlow’s monitoring system that includes ships lights, bilge pumps, macerators, water temperature, exhaust temperature and engine room temperature.
To port and starboard of the helm you will find watertight doors giving you access to the sidewalk arounds. These doors are also equipped with a screen that slides over the opening to allow the breeze in and keep the bugs out.
Foredeck
As we move to the foredeck, we go through the Portuguese bridge to find two seating areas to port and starboard. Fore to that is the boat’s ground tackle that includes a Plow anchor with 300 feet of chain and a Bruce anchor with 400 feet of chain, each controlled by a windlass system. A fresh and saltwater connection forward allows for easy wash down of the anchor and chain. The foredeck also offers shore power connections.
Back inside, we continue down the stairs to a foyer containing a stacking Whirlpool washer and dryer.
Master Stateroom
Midship, she has a full beam master stateroom with the king mattress. To port and starboard, you will find cedar lined hanging lockers and to starboard you will find a wall of drawers. Forward to port is a large flat screen television.
Lighting comes from lamps on each side of the bed where there are also small halogen fixtures shining down from above. The ceiling is equipped with several light fixtures and there is also rope lighting. Shoji screens on each side let the light in but keep it private. Opening these screens reveals portholes that can be opened for fresh air flow.
Aft of the bedroom are two separate heads that are joined together by a centrally placed bathtub and shower.
Guest Staterooms
Leaving the master to port, you will find a twin stateroom with ensuite head. The bow VIP state room is comprised of a raised queen center line bed. There are also cedar lined hanging lockers to port and starboard. Like the other staterooms, she has her own ensuite head that has access from both the VIP stateroom and the hallway so it can double as your day head.
Flybridge
Let’s now head up to the flybridge that is covered by a hard top. Her flybridge helm station has a full complement of electronics and the ship’s engine’s controls. There are also two more Stidd ultra leather helm chairs. After the helm station to starboard is a dinette area and into port, there’s a fully equipped bar with five bar stools. Behind the bar there is a sink as well as a refrigerator and ice maker. Aft of this area to starboard, you will find an electric Gaggenau grill.
Continuing aft, there is an Airtex 1,000 pound tender crane that can easily lift her 13-foot Avon tender, equipped with a 50-horsepower Mercury engine. This area can also be used as a large gathering place for parties and an even larger space if the tender is in the water and the tender crane is moved to the starboard side.
The last stop is the radar arch containing a pair of Furuno radars – one is 80 miles and the other is 40. Here we will also find a KVH TracVision satellite globe for DirecTV entertainment and another for satellite phone.
Thank you for joining me on this tour of HALCYON SEAS, it would be my pleasure to take you aboard this amazing yacht. Contact Shawn at Denison Yachting for current pricing and availability.