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BACCARAT is a wonderful opportunity to own a well-maintained Marlow Explorer that shows like a much newer vessel. Her owners have spared no expense updating and upgrading every aspect of this beautiful yacht. She is the ultimate example of a "turn key" yacht available today and ready to cruise.
She can be cruised at an efficient 8 knots using a mere 4GPH per engine or fast cruise at 17 knots when necessary. The wide 18' 2" beam and well thought-out layout make her 53 feet feel more like a vessel over 60 feet in length. The full beam master stateroom is amidship with a private ensuite head. The Portuguese bridge and full side decks make handling the boat safe and easy for a cruising couple. There visibility from both helms, docking stations, and the wireless yacht controller make docking BACCARAT a breeze. The full standup engine room makes necessary maintenance work much more pleasurable for any technician or hands-on owner. This is a great opportunity to own this gorgeous 53C Marlow Explorer.
Denison Yacht Sales offers the details of this yacht in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of this boat for sale. A yacht buyer should instruct his yacht broker, or his boat surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This yacht for sale is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice. This boat may be listed with another yacht broker.
When you enter the salon from the aft deck you feel the vessel's spacious 18'2" beam. The composite construction of the Marlow Explorer allows this space to be very open with a good view beyond the salon and galley to the front windows. The tinted windows and wooden blinds allow just the right amount of light. The aft salon door is one of a pair. On nice days when you want natural ventilation the second aft door can be unlatched and slid open to a 5' wide opening. The large settee to starboard is upholstered in Ultraleather facing directly across a set of comfortable chairs on port.
The pilothouse is up three steps from the salon and includes the lower helm station, dinette and galley. There are port and starboard exterior doors, a staircase forward descends to the staterooms and a staircase on the port side aft ascends up to the flybridge.
The galley is very well equipped with top of the line appliances and plenty of storage for provisions and housewares. The galley is U-shaped with beautiful Raw Silk granite countertops.
The lower helm is another very comfortable area, complete with Stidd helm chair for the captain, next to a gorgeous teak dinette with Ultraleather seating for guests. The two new Garmin GPS touch screen displays can be set up to display any combination of GPS chart, radar, and depth. The engine displays, VHF, autopilot, and other critical systems are all within easy reach. The overhead panel has electronics circuit breakers, inverter control, Naiad stabilizer control, electronic tank tender, Sentry fluid level monitor, bilge pump controls, and the vessel safety and control center.
The master stateroom is amidship and full beam, making it very light and roomy with teak and holly sole throughout. BACCARAT has a centerline berth with large drawers under the berth. The walls and cabinetry are all satin finished teak. There are a couple of cedar lined hanging lockers and several lockers with shelving along the starboard side. The forward port corner of the stateroom has a full length beveled dressing mirror.
The flat screen TV is easily viewed from the bed. A beautiful teak nightstand is on each side of the bed with large dovetailed drawers mounted on ball bearing slides.
A beautiful curved solid teak valance over the bed has small lights on a dimmer. The slots in the top of the valance diffuse the air-conditioning and send it out into the middle of the room, keeping cool drafts off the bed. There are opening port lights with screens in this stateroom. With curtains to cover the portlights for desired privacy.
The en-suite head is very spacious with vanity, granite counters, under-mounted sink bowl, Grohe faucet, several drawers and cabinets with shelves for storage of toiletries. A large linen closet over the head allows storage for several sets of towels and bed linens. There is a nice cabinet in the shower area to store toiletries.
The VIP stateroom forward has a centerline berth with large drawers under the berth. All the cabinetry is satin finished teak. Each hull side is finished with overhead lockers with louvered teak doors and a cedar lined hanging locker. There is a TV that is mounted in a custom teak frame.
There is a full head with separate stall shower accessible from the stateroom or the companionway to allow use as a day head or for guests in the port side stateroom. The Lexan shower door is a beautiful curved shape framed in solid teak to make the best use of the space. Both the head and the shower have exhaust fans vented outside the vessel. The sink is an undermounted china bowl on a granite top finished with teak fiddles.
The port guest stateroom is on the port side of the vessel at the base of the stairs from the pilothouse. This stateroom provides two comfortable bunks and a cedar-lined hanging locker. A TV is on the aft bulkhead viewable from the berths and a radio volume control. Folding doors open this area to the cabin way where you descend from the pilothouse so the yacht has a very open feel.
This stateroom doubles as an office with a nice desk that is designed to securely store a laptop with easily accessible power and phone line. There are large drawers and a teak cabinet for added storage.
The vessel was designed with the inverter standard. All outlets and the galley refrigeration are on the inverter so they are powered with or without generator or shore power.
The Marlow Explorer is one of the few yachts in the world in which time has been taken to optimize the basic hull design. Most yachts built today are very similar to each other and their predecessors over the last 20 years. When you see a Marlow Explorer on land you notice very quickly that the yacht is blocked at the bow like every other boat, but at the stern she rests on her own twin keels. The propellers are well above the bottom of the keels and it is obvious that a light grounding on a sand bar will only result in some worn bottom paint. What is not so obvious is how these strut keels will make the boat handle in a following sea. The lateral resistance provided makes the boat track straight with very little rudder correction required.
You can tell that the deck is molded as one piece because there are no seams from the transom to the bow, including the Portuguese bridge. The windshields and side windows are tinted glass and laminated with a layer of 3M Hurricane shield to a total thickness of 11mm, twice what most builders use in vessels below 100'.
The teak rails are perfectly finished with 10+ coats of the finest varnish and finished with a few additional protective coats of clearcoat. The hull is molded in gel coat and topped with numerous coats of primer and Oyster white Awlgrip keeping her shiny.
She will keep her form because the Vinylester resin encases two layers of kevlar and many layers of non-woven fabrics that are vacuum bagged to the Core-Cell structural foam core. The inner laminate is all high tech non-woven fabrics. The bilges are smooth and finished like the rest of the yacht.
In the cockpit cabinet under the stairs is a fresh and salt water washdown and shower.
The flybridge is an excellent place for fair weather cruising and entertaining guests with two Stidd helm chairs, one on centerline. The Garmin GPS 7215 plotter can be set up to show any combination of GPS Map, Radar, or depth data. A full set of Caterpillar electronic controls is immediately forward of the large stainless steel wheel. The console also has displays for wind velocity and direction, water depth, and boat speed. The VHF and yachts intercom phone are within easy reach. The flybridge is protected by a full fiberglass hardtop. The flybridge is accessible by stairs from inside the pilothouse and outside from the aft cockpit. There is comfortable seating for eight people, with a table. There is a sink, refrigerator with icemaker and plenty of storage as well as a Gaggenau electric grill.
The 1,000 pound hydraulic davit with remote control and the dinghy with outboard are aft of the flybridge seating area.
You enter the lazarette from the aft cockpit and when you stand at the bottom of the ladder you have full head room. On either side of the lazarette there are beautifully finished teak doors that enclose the batteries, cablemasters, and other equipment. Most of the space is open for your use as general storage. The forward bulkhead of the lazarette is the aft engine room wall where the main battery distribution switches are mounted. The aft doors in the lazarette give you access to the steering gear, autopilot ram, stern thruster and trim tab system. This area is beautifully finished in white gelcoat like all the bilges on the yacht.
Owner’s personal belongings.
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