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TIGerific!
The new TIG welding gun we have been waiting for several months now finally arrived this week and so Sezgin has been having great fun breaking it in and diving into the backlog of welds that we wanted done with TIG rather than MIG. Read on to find out what that...
Stairways to Heaven
The weather has been Cccccccold and wet outside this week with one night time low down to zero Celsius but still lots of hot progress inside. Most exciting of which is that little Yiğit and Mert, the new Dinç twins are now home! Dinçer kindly shared this...
Railing Against the Machine: Progress Update on mv Möbius Jan 2-4, 2019
Well, as expected I’m not able to top last week’s progress Dinçer and his wife Nesli making the ultimate mark of human progress with the arrival of their newborn twins Yiğit and Mert who join their three year old brother Demir bringing the Dinç family (pronounced...
Hands Full and now Hearts Two! mv Möbius Progress Dec. 24-29, 2018
Naval Yachts reached an all time high in productivity this week and it is an all time high that I’m not sure even they can top. On Wednesday Dincer, one of our builder brothers and founder of Naval Yachts texted us with the news that he and his wife Nesli had...
HOLIDAY BONUS: Full Video Tour of mv Möbius for end of 2018
As I mentioned at the end of the previous blog with the usual weekly progress update on the building of our XPM78-01 Möbius, Christine and I have put together a special Holiday treat for all of you faithful followers; a fully annotated video with a guided tour through...
Just Like Rudolph, Möbius’ Nose Leads the Way
Christine & I are taking the weekend off to celebrate our 5th First Kiss-iversary and Christmas with a 3 day road trip up the coast to see more of the beautiful area we live in. Last night we had a gorgeous sunny day for our 2 1/2 hour drive up the coast to...
Wayne
Wonderful Week of Wandering
The week of August 20-24th was a big holiday here in Turkey as this marks the five day Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia and pretty much all businesses, schools, banks and government agencies were all closed. We found this Q&A on the hajj pilgrimage...
Wonderous Week in Antalya
Last week Christine and I took advantage of our fabulous location here in Antalya Turkey to take a break from building our eXtreme eXpedition Passage Maker boat Möbius and go on some land based eXpeditions.After a 5 minute drive from our home and Naval Yachts, we met...
Gardner + Aluminium = Goldilocks eXtreme eXploration Passage Maker
A quick post to refer you to a 2016 article in Yachting World magazine which Christine came across with an article about a fascinating fellow ex sailor now eXtreme eXploration passage maker David Cowper who recently completed one of the most challenging passages...
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Wow! This family of unique new eXtreme Passage Makers I’ve been writing about seems to be gaining new members every day. I had no sooner finished writing up yesterday’s “Canadian Kissin’ Cousins” posting about the recently announced Tactical 77 when Andy, one of...
Canadian Kissin’ Cousins??
Last month I put up a post “Newest Member of this Family of Passage Makers” about the newest members of Dennis’ Artnautica LRC58 line of boats, the LRC58-3 “Britt” and LRC58-4 “Raw” which have both been launched and are now at sea as will be joined by LRC58-5 being...
Christine
Loving Life in Turkey
When we were going through the process of choosing a boat builder, we knew that the location mattered a great deal to us. We didn’t know for sure how long it would take to build the boat, but we knew we would be measuring the time in years, not months, so it had to be...
Serendipity leads us to Naval Yachts
In July 2016, we launched LEARNATIVITY, our 52-foot steel cutter back into the water after nearly a year on the hard in Fiji. The boat was looking better than ever after a new paint job, and while we loved cruising in our sailboat, we had also been working for more...
Meeting Steve
In early September of 2016, Wayne was off on his second boat-building-related trip to Turkey with his bidding package from Dennis in hand, while I returned to LEARNATIVITY in Fiji by myself. We had left the boat in a hurry( to return for the birth of a grandchild)...
Switching from sail to power
It was Christmas, 2014. We were anchored in the lagoon of an atoll in the Marshall Islands, Majuro, off a gorgeous little motu called Eneko. That was to be only the second Christmas that Wayne and I had spent together. We had met just over a year earlier, when Wayne...
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