During our sea trial on Tampa Bay, running attitudes for the Marlow 66E were optimum at four degrees or less, except for the angle at wide-open throttle, which was five degrees.
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Marlow 66E
During our sea trial on Tampa Bay, running attitudes for the Marlow 66E were optimum at four degrees or less, except for the angle at wide-open throttle, which was five degrees.
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Marlow 66E
The teak in the saloon is book-matched, peeled, and cut from a single log.
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Marlow 66E
The helm.
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Marlow 66E
The helm.
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Marlow 66E
The galley is fitted out with top-shelf applicances.
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Marlow 66E
One of 3 staterooms.
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Marlow 66E
All drawers onboard the Marlow 66E feature crisply executed dovetail joints, recessed, solid-wood bottoms, and nary a whiff of composite or chipboard.
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Marlow 66E
Master Stateroom.
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Marlow 66E
The level of finish on the Marlow 66E’s joinery is high. Many of the details (like the bead-board groove cut in this trim piece belowdecks) require great skill to produce but are incorporated for aesthetic reasons only.
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Marlow 66E
Salty detail is what Marlow’s are about. Note the searail on the underside of the walkway overhang.
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Marlow 66E
Detail, detail, detail. That’s the essence of the Marlow 66E. Notice the precisely and uniformly fitted labels on each of the holding-tank hoses shown here, the solid-stainless clamps (affixed in proper, seaman-like fashion), and easy-to-remove senders.
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Marlow 66E
Note the finish on the edge of the hatchway that accesses the Marlow 66E’s forward machinery spaces. Everything you can see is either painted, varnished, and/or batten-joined. There’s nothing that is not nicely finished and smooth.
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Marlow 66E
The Marlow 66E’s searail, which runs the centerline of the saloon’s overhead, has a strange history. The first Marlow ever marketed was inadvertently built without a searail. When a searail was specified at the last minute, craftsmen discovered to their consternation that there was a centerline light fixture in the way. The workaround they came up with (shown here) has been fitted on all subsequent Marlow yachts, including the 66E.
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Marlow 66E
The Marlow 66E has backup controls, and backups for the backups. Note the Morse binnacle-type levers at the upper helm station shown here, alongside joysticks for Vetus bow and stern thrusters, as well as a Yacht Controller joystick that combines and coordinates the capabilities of engines and thrusters via Silicon Valley technology.
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Marlow 66E
The flybridge.
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Marlow 66E
The flybridge.
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Marlow 66E
The flybridge.
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Marlow 66E
The massive cleats, fairleads, and other deck hardware found on the Marlow 66E are made by Marlow craftspersons at the Marlow plant in China. No second- or third-hand suppliers need apply.
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Marlow 66E
The Marlow 66E’s air intakes are made in-house and feature eductors in baffled collection boxes that remove water and salt from the air that the mains inhale.
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Marlow 66E
Duplex Racors for the mains as well as for the two gensets can be seen here in the engine room of the Marlow 66E. The latter feature, by the way, is fairly unusual on recreational vessels. “Belt and suspenders,” is the way the folks at Marlow explain it.
