*** Marlin was sold late 2024 ***
MARLIN is a Mitchell 31 Mark II workboat. Her cabin has high quality woodwork and has comfortable accommodation for 3 overnight. She has a 6 litre diesel engine: Perkins-Sabre M215C, radar, autopilot, liferaft, diesel heater, fridge, chart plotters, AIS receiver, sonars, 2kW mains power, 100 gallon fuel tank, 100 litres water tank, solar panels,...
She cruises very economically at 7 knots, economically at 10-11 knots and is capable of 15 knots.
Boat completed 1999, engine new 2008, has 2800 hours run, 24 volt electrics, was antifouled May 2024.
This web site has many pictures of Marlin.
Recent images: Wheelhouse, dashboard, cabin, galley, fridge, cockpit, cockpit, engine, Marlin, Marlin under way.
Jump to 1999, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, Previous boat: Curlew.
Overview of Marlin Cruise destinations
Places visited.
(Yellow: overnight; blue: ashore; white: visited.)
Enlargement of Irish Sea Area.
Some destinations: MARLIN is a Mitchell 31 Mark II workboat.
Boating Rants:
Not for navigation;
Fishing floats;
Boat electrics;
Firing Ranges;
Green bits
MARLIN is based at Liverpool Marina
1999 delivery cruise from Appledore
Mostly day trips to dive sites or to dry out over low water. Also
frequent overnight trips to Conwy, Rhos, Menai Bridge, Fleetwood,
Glasson Dock.
Early trips to the Isle of Man
2004 cruise to Piel Island and Whitehaven marina (5-7 August 2004)
2004 Cruise to Rathlin
2001 and 2005 Cruises to Dublin
2006 Cruise around 5 countries
2008 Cruise into Dee estuary
2008 Cruise to Milford Haven
via Ireland
2009 Cruise to Milford Haven
For a rather special trip in MARLIN (to St. Kilda in 2009)
see
St Kilda Trip
2010 Cruises into Dee estuary
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 Cruises into Dee estuary
2011 Cruises to Piel Island
(near Barrow)
2011 Cruise to
Conwy, Porth Dinllaen and Anglesey
2011 Cruise to
Porthmadog, Barmouth and Aberdyfi
2011 Cruise to
Ravenglass, Harrington, Workington, Maryport, Kippford, Garlieston, Isle
of Whithorn and Laxey.
2012 Cruise to Piel Island
(near Barrow)
2012 Cruise to Morecambe Bay
2012 Cruise to
Bardsey, Aberdaron and Moelfre
2012 Cruise to Clyde
2012 Cruise to Conwy
2013 Cruise to 3 islands
(Piel, Man and Anglesey)
2013 Cruise up the Dee estuary to Connah's
Quay.
2013 Cruise around Ireland
2013 Cruise up the Mersey
to Warrington (Mersey from mouth to head of navigation).
2013 Cruise up the Ribble
to Preston.
2014 Cruise to Conwy
2014 Cruise to Piel Island
(near Barrow)
2014 Cruise to South
Wales
2014 Cruise up the Dee
to Chester (Dee from mouth to head of navigation).
2014 Cruise to
North Wales (Rhyl, Rhos, Llandudno, Puffin I., Red Wharf Bay,
Moelfre, Dulas Bay).
2014 Cruise to
Isle of Man
(Port St Mary, Castletown, Douglas, Laxey, Ramsey, Peel, Port Erin)
2015 Cruise to
Widnes (Spike Island)
2015 Cruise to
Menai Bridge, Port Penrhyn, Deganwy and Rhos
2015 Cruise to Meols,
Thurstaston, Bagillt and Hoyle Bank (Dee Estuary)
2015 Cruise to
Moelfre, Dulas Bay, Conwy, Rhos and Meols
2015 Cruise to
Cumbria: Piel, Ravenglass and Whitehaven
2015 Cruise to Llŷn
(Mochras, Porthmadog, Criccieth, Pwllheli, Llanbedrog, Abersoch,
Aberdaron, Porth Ysgaden, Porth Dinllaen, Porth Nevyn, Trevor,
Caernarfon)
2016 Cruise to
Lytham (Ribble Estuary) .
2016 cruises into Dee
Estuary April, Dee
Estuary May,
Dee
Estuary July,
Dee
Estuary September,
Hilbre
Island October.
2016 Cruises to
Widnes (Spike Island)
2016 Cruise to England;
Scotland; Isle of Man; Wales: Piel, Ravenglass, Whithorn, Kirkcudbright,
Douglas, Amlwch, Rhos.
2016 Cruise to
SE Ireland (Wexford, Kilmore Quay,
Waterford, New Ross, Dunmore East, Polduff Pier, Courtown) ,
2016 Cruise to
Menai Bridge, Swellies and Port Penrhyn .
2017 Cruises to
Widnes (Spike Island)
2017 Cruises to Dee Estuary (April,
June, July, August, September)
2017 Cruise to Morecambe Bay (Piel,
Morecambe, Heysham, Glasson, Lancaster, Fleetwood, Blackpool)
2017 Cruise to
Menai Bridge, Swellies and Puffin Island .
2017 Cruise around Anglesey(including Colwyn Bay,
Menai Bridge, Llanddwyn, Cymyran Inlet, Rhoscolyn, Holyhead, Cemaes Bay
and Moelfre).
2017 Cruise to NW England
(Haverigg, Barrow, Piel, Wyre, Fleetwood, Blackpool, Ribble).
2018 Cruise to NW England
(Barrow, Walney Channel, Duddon Estuary, Askam Pier, Borwick Rails).
2018/9 Cruises to Upper Mersey and Widnes (Spike Island)
2018 Cruises into Dee Estuary (and Chester):
May(2); Rhyl September.
2018 Cruise to 6 countries: Wales,
RoI, NI, IoM, Scotland, England.
2018 Cruise to Morecambe.
2018 Cruise to Beaumaris and Conwy.
2018 Cruise into Dee Estuary (and Rhyl): Rhyl.
2019 Cruises to Upper Mersey: Hale Head;
Fidlers Ferry; Warrington; Eastham; Stanlow; Runcorn
2019 Cruise to Colwyn Bay, Red Wharf Bay and Llandudno Bay
2019 Cruise to Blackpool, Morecambe
and Ribble
2019 Cruises to Dee Estuary
2020 Cruises to Dee Estuary,
including wrecks N of Hoyle Bank.
2020 Cruises to Mersey Estuary:
Eastham, Fidler's Ferry, Hale Head, Hempstone Point, Bromborough
2020 Cruises to Lytham, Blackpool
2021 Cruises to Mersey Estuary:
Hale Head, Pickering Pasture, Runcorn Bridges, Fidlers Ferry, Eastham;
2021 Cruises to Dee Estuary;
2021 Cruise to Ribble and St. Annes;
2022 Cruises to Mersey Estuary:
Widnes, Dungeon, Eastham, Stanlow, Fidler's Ferry, Warrington.
2022 Cruises to Dee Estuary;
2022 Cruise to Ribble and St. Annes;
2023 Cruises to Mersey Estuary:
Dungeon, Eastham, Runcorn Bridges.
2023 Cruises to Dee Estuary and
Liverpool Bay;
2024 Cruises in Mersey.
2024 Cruise to Dee Estuary.
A summary of some cruises made in
my previous boat.
I have also used my 2.85m inflatable tender to explore tidal rivers:
the Dee from Chester to beyond Farndon; the Clwyd from Rhyl to beyond
Rhuddlan and the Conwy from Conwy up to near Llanrwst.
Guide to
cruising the Dee Estuary .
Guide to
cruising the Mersey Estuary .
Guide to
cruising the Irish sea .
Rathlin;
Dublin;
Kircudbright, Strangford, Carlingford;
Milford Haven, SE Ireland
Cardigan, Solva, Skomer;
St. Kilda
N Cardigan Bay;
Solway
Bardsey Island;
Clyde
Around Ireland;
Mersey to Warrington;
Ribble to Preston.
Bristol Channel to Chepstow;
Dee to Chester;
Around Isle of Man
Cumbria;
Llŷn
Lytham;
4 Countries;
SE Ireland .
Morecambe Bay, Lancaster;
Anglesey;
Haverigg, Barrow, Wyre, Ribble
Barrow, Walney Channel, Duddon Estuary;
Amlwch, Malahide to Dundrum, Peel, Isle of Whithorn, Piel Is;
Rhyl
Warrington;
Colwyn Bay, Red Wharf Bay, Llandudno;
Blackpool, Morecambe
Lytham, Blackpool
Warrington.
Liverpool waterfront
